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Generally favorable reviews- based on 21 Ratings

  • Starring: DMX, Steven Seagal
  • Summary: Seagal stars as maverick Detroit police detective Orin Boyd, whose take-no-prisoners approach to domestic terrorism gets him booted downtown to the city's toughest precinct. (Warner Bros.)
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 9
  2. Negative: 4 out of 9
  1. In its low grade way, this blithely brutal cops and drugs thriller is an efficient hot wire entertainment.
  2. 60
    Silver, manages the deft balance of making Seagal seem both genuinely courageous and charmingly blockheaded.
  3. Reviewed by: Jay Carr
    50
    Its pile-driving succession of set pieces comes at you with numbingly relentless efficiency, presumably in the hope that you won't notice or care how dumb it all is.
  4. This movie, cynically and patronizingly aimed at Seagal's predominantly "urban" audience, is sad, tedious proof that even violent exploitation isn't what it used to be.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 4
  3. Negative: 0 out of 4
  1. HayesH.
    10
    Seagal delivers the goods again.
  2. JeffM.
    10
    Rocked, pimpin music. If someone knows the name of the song that they're playing in the club when the strippers are dancing, please let me know!!! Expand
  3. EW is pretty much a run-of-the-mill Steven Seagal flick. It does have al little heart that it glosses over for the most part during the traffic cop sequences. Aside from that Steve delivers his usual aikido fueled butt-kickings, shoot-outs and car chases. Oh yeah and it has DMX just in case aikido fueled butt-kickings, shoot-outs and car chases aren't your cup of tea. Because DMX sells tickets I guess. Anyways Jill Hennessy was great but her role was miniscule. Expand

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