Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Exit Wounds

"What can two men do against a gang of crooked cops? Whatever it takes."

In Exit Wounds Seagal stars as Orin Boyd, a Detroit cop who pushes the boundaries a little too far when he saves the vice president from terrorist. The catch? He threw the V.P. off of a bridge to protect him. For this Boyd is reassigned from his luxurious uptown precinct to the worst precinct it Detroit. It is here that he meets his new lady boss under embarrassing circumstances and gets on her bad side. She sends him to anger management where he meets Tom Arnold, a reporter with an attitude. Meanwhile, DMX and his sidekick are making drug deals with one of Boyd's fellow officers, Matt Montini, who is more than just undercover. Boyd eventually starts to catch onto DMX, and then Montini. Things get really confusing when Orin begins to uncover evidence that not only is Montini one of the bad-guys, but DMX is one of the good guys. All of Orin's nosing around isn't making him many friends in the precinct but he does pick up a sidekick along the way. Boyd, DMX and his sidekick use their brilliant detective work and connections with Tom Arnold to crack open the case to bust a gang of crooked, drug dealing cops that end up having higher connections than even Boyd would have suspected.


This movie really didn't have any vintage Seagal quotes and virtually no highlights, other than Seagal shooting down a helicopter with his pistol and throwing the V.P. off of a bride for basically no reason. Oh yea, he did do a break-dancing move to avoid a bullet while kicking a street tough in the head. That was pretty cool. This all happened within the first 5 minutes of the movie making it utterly disappointing. The movie did have some pretty good actors like Eva Mendez, Bill Duke, Anthony Anderson and Tom Arnold, but even they couldn't save this one. I give it an extra ponytail because Seagal did whisper each and every line.

Exit Wounds: 2 Ponytail

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