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Exit Wounds
 cast: Steven Seagal, DMX, Isaiah Washington, Michael Jai White, Anthony Anderson, and Tom Arnold

director: Andrzej Bartkowiak

98 minutes (18) 2001
widescreen ratio 2.35:1
Warner DVD Region 2 retail

RATING: 4/10
 reviewed by Ian Shutter
Bog standard urban actioner, starring no-nonsense Seagal as hard-man cop in a tale of police corruption, set in Detroit. Rap star turned actor DMX plays pseudo gangster Latrell Walker, actually a millionaire vigilante with a political agenda and a grievance against the injustice system that has framed his younger brother. TV star Jill Hennessy (from Law & Order) looks beautiful, yet she's thoroughly wasted as the heroic cop's new boss. Overweight comic relief Anthony Anderson is loud and irritating (can anyone explain why this imbecile is in movies?), and the film lurches on - without much purpose, it must be said - from one hurriedly unambitious and disappointingly clichéd sequence to the next. It only comes to stumblingly episodic life for the wire-assisted fights and pyrotechnical shootouts.
   Seagal tries and fails to leaven his usual stoic demeanour with more unsmiling humour than usual, but there's almost no macho chemistry between this second rate white action man and his largely black co-stars. An appreciation for hip-hop is helpful or the music tracks may prove tiresome. The improvised TV chat show scene of trivial vulgarity that plays during the final credits has nothing to do with the film at all, except as a free advert for Anderson and Arnold's vacuous comedy style. Don't buy this one, just rent it - you can thank me later, ok?
   DVD extras: Dolby digital 5.1 sound, four-language subtitles, Making Exit Wounds featurette (19 minutes), DMX music video, A Day On The Set With Anthony Anderson (unwatchably inane!), trailer, scene index in 32 chapters.
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