History Film / ExitWounds

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Hinges can be seen as a ObstructiveBureaucrat due to his dislike of Boyd’s cowboy tendencies but at the end of the day? He’s one of very few cops who is clean and eventually sides with Boyd to take down the dirty cops.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Hinges can be seen as a ObstructiveBureaucrat due to his dislike of Boyd’s cowboy tendencies but at the end of the day? He’s one of very few cops who is clean and eventually sides Boyd to take down the dirty cops.

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 "Music/{{DMX}}" Simmons) and his fast-talking sidekick T.K. Johnson (Creator/AnthonyAnderson) are engaged in shady business. However, 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.

%%* DaChief: Frank.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Hinges can be seen as a ObstructiveBureaucrat but at the end of the day? He’s one of very few cops who is clean and eventually sides Boyd to take down the dirty cops.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Hinges can be seen as someone who makes Boyd’s life a living hell and has tried to fire him numerous times but he is right in the matter that Boyd caused millions of dollars in damages and that his cowboy antics do give the police a bad name. Although in the end?? He sides with Boyd and helps him take down the ring of corrupt cops.

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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 (Creator/AnthonyAnderson) are engaged in shady business. However, 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.

* CompletelyDifferentTitle: In Poland, the film was titled ''Mroczna Dzielnica'' (''Dark District'').

* SpiritualSuccessor: Part of a trio of films by Bartkowiak, starting with ''Film/RomeoMustDie'' and followed by ''Film/Cradle2TheGrave'' of martial arts buddy cop films (Seagal, Jet Li) mixed with rap artists/urban culture, with an added dose of Creator/TomArnold.

* 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. He even destroys half of Detroit working a day as a ''traffic cop''! Wait a minute...
* DisposableLoveInterest: Oren's new captain is an attractive brunette. Eventually, there appears to be something developing between them. Then she goes head-first into her windshield during a collision. She gets a single mention after that, and that's it. Oren completely forgets about her.

* SpiritualSuccessor: Part of a trio of films by Bartkowiak, starting with ''Film/RomeoMustDie'' and followed by ''Film/Cradle2TheGrave'' of martial arts buddy cop films (Segal, Jet Li) mixed with rap artists/urban culture, with an added dose of Creator/TomArnold.

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 (Creator/AnthonyAnderson) 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.

* 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''!
* FilmOfTheBook
** InNameOnly

* UsefulNotes/{{Detroit}}

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. [[Film/HalfPastDead Oh]], [[DirectToVideo how wrong they were about that]].

2001 action film directed by AndrzejBartkowiak and starring Creator/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.

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

* SpiritualSuccessor: Part of a trio of films by Bartkowiak, starting with ''Film/RomeoMustDie'' and followed by ''Film/Cradle2TheGrave'' of martial arts buddy cop films (Segal, Jet Li) mixed with rap artists/urban culture, with an added dose of TomArnold.

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]].