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2001 action film directed by AndrzejBartkowiak and starring StevenSeagal. Based InNameOnly on the [[FilmOfTheBook book of the same name]] by John Westermann.

Orin Boyd (Seagal) is a Detroit police officer. At the start of the film, Orin [[ArsonMurderAndLifeSaving saves the life of the Vice President of the United States from a group of militants, but causes a lot of havoc in doing so]]. [[DaChief Precinct captain Frank Daniels]] (Bruce [=McGill=]) is pissed, so he reassigns Orin to 15th precinct - the worst precinct in the city. Amidst attending anger management classes, Orin begins to suspect that local affluent drug dealer Latrell Walker (Earl "DMX" Simmons) and his fast-talking sidekick T.K. Johnson (Anthony Anderson) are engaged in shady business. However, [[spoiler:he turns out to be wrong. Actually, it's corrupt police who are running the precinct's drug trade.]] Thus, he and his new partner George Clark (Isaiah Washington) set out to stop them.

Though it did poorly with the critics (34% on RottenTomatoes), it was a box office hit, grossing almost $80 million, and was touted as Steven Seagal's big comeback. [[HalfPastDead Oh]], [[DirectToVideo how wrong they were about that]].

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!!This film provides examples of:

* ArsonMurderAndLifeSaving
* ChairReveal
* CoolCar: Latrell and T.K. buy one.
* DaChief: Frank.
* DestructiveSavior: Oren is the hero and goes above and beyond defeating the bad guys, but he ends up causing enough property damage to wreck a major city the size of Detroit. Wait a minute...
** He even destroys half of Detroit working a day as a ''traffic cop''!
* UsefulNotes/{{Detroit}}
* FilmOfTheBook 
** InNameOnly
* GambitPileup: Nearly every major character has a plan going on, and occasionally crash into each other. Literally.
* SpiritualSuccessor: Part of a trio of films by Bartkowiak, starting with ''Film/RomeoMustDie'' and followed by ''Cradle2TheGrave'' of martial arts buddy cop films (Segal, Jet Li) mixed with rap artists/urban culture, with an added dose of TomArnold.
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