Fresh and Exciting

Excellent adaptation.

As Good As It Gets

It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

Steven Seagal's supposed "comeback" film is an action thriller with some intense, expertly-crafted action scenes saddled on to a routine, clichéd plot which never rises above the "good guys battle police corruption" idea which has been done so many times previously (indeed, to highlight the cliché, Seagal's character is even referred to as "Serpico" in one scene). This time, however, the film is slightly different to most in that the budget is larger than usual, and the film has a slick style, a hard edge that's missing from more usual lower-budgeted fare. This time, too, there's an element of humour in the script, with jokes about Seagal's adopted "hardman" persona as he joins an anger management class, and comic supporting characters (not so funny, including one offensive black guy whose lame brained moronic humour definitely wasn't required).The cast is a better one than usual. Seagal - who lost weight for the role - is in good shape and looks capable of carrying out some of the well-edited martial arts techniques he tries out in this movie, although his acting hasn't changed since his debut. DMX is pretty limited as Leon Rollins, who turns from extreme bad guy to good guy at around halfway through in one of the film's many character twists. The familiar faces of Tom Arnold, Michael Jai White, and Bill Duke pep out the supporting cast, while Jill Hennessy makes for a strong feminine role as Seagal's tough Commander. The loud music is frequently intrusive and one of the film's flaws.The action sequences, however, are excellent, and worth watching. Beginning with a large-scale shoot-out involving a squad of renegade commandos disguised as policemen and finishing with a clever helicopter stunt, this has it all. There are MATRIX-style camera tricks used to make characters perform impossible manoeuvres, a motorbike chase, an excellent van set-piece which contains one of the coolest vehicle crashes ever filmed, a scene which harks back to the old days with Seagal battling a street gang single-handedly and breaking many arms and legs, plus plenty of shootings and one-on-one battles for Seagal. Thrilling stuff, it's just a shame the story is so familiar and overdone. Not bad for the genre, though.

"Camp is terribly hard to define. One feels it intuitively." - Christopher Isherwood Steven Seagal's "Exit Wounds" opens with Seagal, an American cop, getting DEMOTED for SAVING THE LIFE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT. What the hell? The rest of the film proceeds along similarly random lines. We watch as Seagal dodges bullets at point blank rage, visits homo-erotic locker rooms, detonates a helicopter with a pistol, takes anger management classes, beats up randomly appearing multiracial carjackers, lets himself get tazered in the nipples, and prove that all black guys aren't career criminals. Even the film's dialogue - "It was bureaucrats like you who sent kids to Vietnam in the sixties!" - comes totally out of the blue. Watching "Exit Wounds" is like sucking on a tank of laughing gas whilst ninjas and clowns battle for front row seats at a gay opera.6/10 – Glorious cheese.

This is Seagal's last big budget solo movie . He later appeared in big budget movie in "The Machete" , but it was an episode. Anyway , it's not strange that Seagal is making straight-to-DVD movies now . "Exit wounds " is a lame action movie that has nothing to offer.Story ? Predictable and was done before with much better results . Anthony Anderson ? Just as unfunny as always. Seagal and DMX ? Both can't act and have a charisma of death cat. Action scenes ? From fight scenes that look incredibly silly to shootouts and car chases that you can barely see what's going on. Interesting characters ? Oh , please. Humor ? A visit to dentist is much funnier.There is one good idea here involving belt and shotgun . A rare example of something truly intelligent and good in this movie. Everything else screams "made for MTV generation" . Maybe that was the point . They wanted to sell Seagal to younger generation of viewers . Maybe. I give it 1/10. It's not the worst movie of Seagal , but still not really worth watching . It's as unambitious run by the numbers action movie as you can imagine. Watch out for Bill Duke ("Predator") as Chief Hinges and Eva Mendes("Training day") as Trish.

Orin Boyd (Seagal) is a Detroit cop who doesn't follow rules.After he saved the Vice President by violating every order he received he is transferred to one of the worst precincts in the city.There he quickly encounters some corrupt cops selling heroin to drug dealers.The problem is, it's very difficult to tell who is the bad guy and who you can trust....Seagal made a really welcome comeback with this excellent movie, which is flashily edited, well produced and wholly unbelievable, but from the producer of The Matrix and Die Hard, what are you expecting.It's Seagals last great film and probably his best performance as the cop who is the one who uncovers a plot after only being there a day.DMX pops up to bring the hip hop generation to the theatre, and he manages to give an okay performance.The fight scenes use a lot of wires, but it's great to see Seagal doing his stuff, and especially seeing him face off with Jai White during the finale.Arnold and Anderson nearly ruin the whole movie, and they have the Chris Tucker In the Fifth Element effect whenever they are in the movie. Luckily it's not for long.It's all sully stuff, but it works, and is very enjoyable...