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Summary: Steven Seagal is back!
Review: Wow! I was really suprised and entertained by "Exit Wounds". This is Seagal's best movie to date, surpassing "Under Siege". While this is not a great film it has numerous exciting action scenes and some funny comedic moments. It also plays against Seagal's tough guy image, by having his character sent to anger managment classes, which leads to some funny comedy. Fans of hardcore Seagal might be dissapointed there is less of his Aikido mastery in this film and more shooting and car chasing. His aikido is used in a few scenes, not to mention a really cool quasi sword fight at the end of the film. Seagal by no means is a good actor, but here in "Exit Wounds" he seems to be taking himself less seriously than in his previous movies. Seagal has also lost some wieght since his last movie he is noticably thinner and leaner. The supporting performances by DMX and Tom Arnold are good as well, Tom arnold hasn;t had a role this good since "True Lies" he adds some funny comic releif to the film. Rap star DMX is the real suprise he gives the best performance in the film and shows that he has some serious acting chops, a very pleasant suprise, like the film itself, one of my favorites from 2001. Awesome action!Check it out.
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Summary: Once again, Tom Arnold provides comic relief.
Review: I have to admit, I was half looking forward to this, and half not. Steven Seagal doesn't really do anything for me - whereas DMX does. Plus, Steven really annoys me, as he tends to speak really quietly, in a monotone voice, so you turn up the sound to hear exactly what he's saying - and then you have to quickly turn it down as guns start shooting, etc.Once again, he plays a character that starts investigating things that he's never really been assigned too, and no one can stop him sticking his nose in, cos he's so threatening. He looks like a big softie, quite literally. Teamed up with a cop who can't decide whether he's good or bad - and is the first to befriend him in the new precinct - is really predictable. What is the good thing about this movie? (Apart from DMX obviously) That a lot of the characters are from Cradle 2 The Grave - but without Steven Seagal. You've got DMX (he was better in Cradle 2 The Grave), Anthony Anderson, Tom Arnold, and probably a couple of others. The whole story is about good cops/bad cops. And which one DMX fits into, is never really explained. (Although he's not a cop) You can never decide whether he's on the good side or the bad side. The extras are pretty sparse on the DVD. You've got a behind the scenes tour thing with Anthony Anderson, a trailer (whoopee!), and a music video. The music video was quite impressive and surprising! DMX has 'covered' (and when I say covered, I mean sings the chorus, and then raps right the way through it) "Ain't No Sunshine", originally done by Bill Withers, and infamously known in the Notting Hill movie. While it's a good version, it's not really DMX to be covering or sampling such a song, that's so well known in another movie. The same as at the end of Cradle 2 The Grave, Tom Arnold and Anthony Anderson, have this little scene all to themselves, which is apparently ad-libbed. (Whatever). However, it's not as funny as their scene in Cradle 2 The Grave, and gets tedious after a while. So I've given this movie a pretty good rating, haven't I? So I've now seen two Steven Seagal movies, and I own one of them. D'ya think I can get a break? I own one, that's enough for me!
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Summary: bang bang goes the gun. clap clap goes the hands
Review: amazing
powerful
alluring
great acting Seagal and DMX do in this action movie
very great scenery
the director is brilliant in what he does in this film
Seagal really takes action in a movie to whole new heights
I love all his movies. I would recommend you give this movie a try. I got it on dvd and love it. He's a timeless actor. one can never forget such scenes as the ones he put out in movies like Hard to Kill, Under Siege 1 &2, and many others he has been in
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Summary: Sure surprised me!
Review: In the late 1980s and early 1990's, it looked as though Seagal would join the ranks of Hollywood's top action stars. You would hear his name in the same sentence with Arnie and Stallone, no small feat indeed. And to a large degree, Seagal's films deserved the comparison. "Under Siege" was a winner, as were "Hard to Kill" and "Above the Law." The actor's greatest appeal isn't hard to fathom; Seagal embraced a brutal form of martial arts that, at least onscreen, allowed him to slap down thugs, break bones, and wreak massive havoc without batting an eye. Literally, Seagal would stand in place and put down one goon after the other with an ease that looked not only natural but also realistic. I still enjoy watching that pool room scene where Seagal's character used pool cues, billiard balls, and whatever else he could lay his hands on to put out the trash. Alas, how the mighty have fallen. The early 1990s may as well be ancient history as far as Steven Seagal is concerned. Although he's still capable of making a few entertaining films, like his comeback picture "Exit Wounds," far too often we're seeing movies like "The Foreigner" and "Ticker."
Amazingly, Seagal doesn't play an intelligence operative or freelance secret agent in "Exit Wounds." Nope, he's nothing more than a hotshot Detroit cop named Orin Boyd in this movie. Of course, Seagal's character angers the top brass when he carelessly intervenes to save the vice president from a group of militia nuts bent on assassination. Why the police and secret service agents would express anger at a man who single handedly saved the second highest government official from certain doom is beyond me, but it does present the viewer with the first of many implausible events that pop up from time to time in this picture. To punish the errant officer, officials send Boyd to the worst precinct in town, the lowly Fifteenth. Once there Orin Boyd runs afoul of the gorgeous Commander Mulcahy (Jill Hennessy), gets sent to an anger management class where he meets the loudmouthed Henry Wayne (Tom Arnold at his most grating), and botches a drug sting set up by the suspicious Montini (David Vadim). Despite the fact that Montini nearly took Boyd's head off with a power tool, Mulcahy punishes Boyd assigning him to traffic detail. No matter what he does, Seagal's character can't catch a break. Even his new fellow officers seem to despise him, with the exception of his new partner George Clark (Isaiah Washington) and the beefy Sergeant Strutt (Michael Jai White).
Still, Orin Boyd is a cop's cop, and he quickly proves his mettle by latching on to the case of suspected drug dealer Latrell Walker (DMX), the very same case Montini was working on. When someone robs police headquarters of a boatload of heavy narcotics, Boyd knows something big is about to go down. The answers seem to lie around Walker and his boisterous companion T.K. (Anthony Anderson). Well, looks often deceive, and nothing is more deceptive than Latrell Walker. In a series of plot twists, Boyd discovers a big secret about this supposed inner city dope peddler, a secret that will eventually lead to the discovery of a lot of dirty laundry at the very precinct house where Boyd now works. "Exit Wounds" treats us to one slam-bang action scene after another as Seagal works hard to bring the bad guys to justice. We see car chases, massive shootouts, exploding helicopters, expensive cars, surprisingly gory scenes of carnage, fistfights, swordfights, martial arts action, car jumping, and just about anything else that has ever appeared in an action film. It's as though the filmmakers couldn't decide what they wanted to do so they just threw everything, including the kitchen sink, into the mix.
I have to say I liked "Exit Wounds." Seagal shed many of those embarrassing pounds to play a rather active Orin Boyd. Some of the martial arts scenes where he puts his man down for good look just like the good old days. Even more surprisingly, his character plays for laughs. Witness the desk-crushing scene at the anger management class and his experience as a traffic cop for proof of this assertion. Although self-parody is usually the last refuge of an ailing action star, Seagal pulls it off well. It doesn't hurt to have the frenetic Anthony Anderson hamming it up all over the place either. Too, I was impressed with some of the faces I saw in the movie. Aside from the previously mentioned Jill Hennessy, Tom Arnold, and Isaiah Washington, we also see Bill Duke, Eva Mendes, and Bruce McGill having fun in minor parts. Even DMX does a good job, and I despise rappers. But, and this is a big but, there are many illogical scenes that had me shouting out loud in disbelief. To cite but one example, I couldn't help but groan in amazement at the scene where Mulcahy's vehicle soars off the second, or possible third, story of a parking garage only to roar off down the street seemingly untouched. Oh brother!
For this type of film, the extras are amazingly abundant. You get a trailer, a DMX music video, a lengthy making of feature, a special "Day in the life of Anthony Anderson" featurette, and extensive cast and crew filmographies. Even Seagal the Great sits down to discuss his role in the picture. The behind the scenes stuff tells us that Joel Silver produced the movie, explains how the stunt scenes used wires to suspend and move around the characters, and breaks down most of the action sequences. I heartily recommend "Exit Wounds" to action fans. Sure, it's a later stage Seagal picture, but it's also a very good Seagal picture.
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Summary: Not a thinking man's movie, but that's ok
Review: Ok guys, for all those who thinks "Exit Wounds" is a bad movie, here's the deal; it stars Steven Seagal, you know what you're getting your self into. Why is everyone so down on this movie? Is it the "Godfather"? No. It is what it is; it aims low, but it hit's it's target. Seagal plays Detriot police officer Boyd who is transfered into a new department rife with police corruption. And so a couple of broken wrists later, Seagal is in the middle of cops he can't trust and gangsters with deeper motives. This is Seagal's best movie in a long (LONG) time. He has lost a few pounds (though he still looks pretty hefty) and quit wearing the East Asian wardrobe, which was a step in the right diection. Another right move was casting DMX. I am not a fan of his rap music, but he certainly has charisma here. I was duely impressed. Jill Hennessy is around as Boyd's commanding officer. Hennessy is a good actress (look at "Law and Order" or "Crossing Jordon"), but unfortunately she isn't givin a lot to do here; just look pretty so Seagal can gawk at her. One other note worthy cast member is Tom Arnold. Thankfully he is not on screen that much, so he dosn't have time to wear his welcome out. His talk show material during the ending credits is funny, maybe; depending on your sense of humor he may be hit and miss. The action scenes are fast, exciting, and brutial; lots of gun shot wounds (hense the title) and bone crunching martial arts moves. A word on the fighting choreography; it seems a little fake to me; too much slow motion for my taste. Like I said, it isn't high art, but it is fast paced action thriller with lots of cool fights and lots of testostorone.
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Summary: Exit Wounds
Review: This is not the typical Steven Seagal film. His fighting style is different. Recall the fights when Seagal simply broke an arm and the fight was over? In "Exit Wounds," the fights last longer. The action sequences are similar to what you'd expect in a John Woo film. DMX does a decent job of acting though none of his scenes were taxing on his acting abilities. There's plenty of action. It's funny and it's a fun film.
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