FU&D! Original Review - Exit Wounds - 3/4 guns
Seagal is back with a vengence in this stylish, no-holds action flick! It's been a couple of years since The Great One kicked ass and it's damn good to have him back! With a haircut from his Nico days and the kind of untamed aggression he hasn't displayed since Out for Justice, Seagal plays Orin Boyd, a Detroit cop with - what else? - a problem with authority and a penchant for extreme violence. Although the fact that Seagal is back again warrants 3 guns, I have to say that the best scene in this movie is right at the very beginning where Seagal single-handedly foils an assassination attempt on the Vice President.
Seagal going to anger management classes with Tom Arnold is a blast and leads to another classic scene: the take-down of the gangs trying to rip off his new truck. However, the story is contrived, DMX sucks cock, and some of the other fight scenes have already been seen elsewhere. The nightclub fight, for example, is very similar to the one in Romeo Must Die (also directed by Andrzej Bartkowiak) right down to the more obvious wire-work.
The plot, loosely a mix of Bad Boys (stolen heroin from police lock-up) and Cop Land (well-organised crooked cops), offers a background against which The Great One kicks ass, but not much more. It needs to be said, however, that Seagal is looking bad-ass again.
His age shows, but in this flick - as opposed to Fire Down Below - Seagal handles it much better: we don't doubt that he can execute the more acrobatic of his ass-kicking moves. For that, and for the relief of finally having Seagal back on the silver screen, this movie gets three locked, cocked and ready to rocked Colt 1911s.
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