Exit Wounds
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Short description
Detroit detective Orin Boyd works by his own rules, and the consequences of a high-profile rescue operation land him in the city's roughest precinct, where his superiors hope he will keep quiet. Instead he notices that colleagues are skimming from the narcotics they seize. To expose the officers running the operation, Boyd turns to Latrell Walker, a drug dealer with reasons of his own for wanting the same men brought down.
Exit Wounds was directed by Andrzej Bartkowiak, his second feature after Romeo Must Die in 2000 and followed by Cradle 2 the Grave in 2003. Steven Seagal stars as Boyd, with DMX as Walker, Isaiah Washington as Boyd's partner George Clark, Anthony Anderson as T.K. Johnson, Bill Duke as Chief Hinges and Michael Jai White as Lewis Strutt. Richard D'Ovidio and Ed Horowitz wrote the screenplay, and Joel Silver and Dan Cracchiolo produced.
Made for about 33 million US dollars, the film took roughly 80 million worldwide, a solid return relative to its cost. Audiences rate it modestly: 5.6 out of 10 on IMDb from around 39,000 votes and 5.9 out of 10 on TMDB from roughly 600 votes. A critics' score of 4.8 out of 10 from 63 reviews puts it below even those audience figures.
What's left behind the scenes
- During filming in Hamilton, a van was towed upside down along the street as part of a chase scene; stuntman Chris Laymon and another stunt performer were reportedly rolling safely, but Laymon evidently hit his head and died six days later. Todd Schroeder suffered a concussion in the same incident. The scene was reshot with the van moving slower and the stunt performers positioned differently.
- Filming in Toronto was postponed again when David Vadim was arrested and accused of sexual harassment on set.
- Eva Mendes's character in the film was redubbed by another actress, but she only found out at the premiere, which she attended with all her relatives. She was later told that she herself sounded 'not smart enough.'
- According to Tom Arnold, Steven Seagal actually fell into the water while filming the scene on the boat.
- According to Steven Quadros (an American television host specializing, among other things, in sports combat interviews on cable television), the fight between Steven Seagal and Michael Jai White was not rehearsed in advance; the actors improvised everything from the first blow to the last.
- The scene featuring the helicopter attack on the bridge was filmed in Calgary, in the Canadian province of Alberta. When the film crew arrived, the bridge had already been closed for reconstruction for a year, and the explosions caused concern among local residents. Approximately six months later – after the bridge had reopened – a scandal erupted in Calgary because the film crew returned to reshoot some scenes and asked the city administration to close the bridge again.
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