Exit Wounds

Steven Seagal is back again, continuing his dedicated quest to make the most brutal, brain-dead, barbaric movies of all time. This time he plays a maverick cop (although “renegade” is more like it) investigating a mysterious character (DMX) who seems to be flirting with the corrupt cops in Seagal’s new precinct. The script, by Ed Horowitz and Richard D’Ovidio, claims to be based on a novel by John Westermann, but it’s hard to imagine a novel this bad getting published; the story is an all-but-incomprehensible pretext for the mindless violence that Seagal’s fans—whoever they are—find so irresistible. Among those caught in the debris in Seagal’s wake are Isaiah Washington, Anthony Anderson, Bill Duke and Tom Arnold.