Exit Wounds will appeal to violent, narrow minded, women hating, car loving, young thugs, in short many Australian young men, but hopefully to few others. Steven Seagal has made his name in these sorts of movies. Yet again, surprise, surprise, he plays a cop in trouble for excessive violence and a lack of respect for authority.

Seagal is a little older now, has lopped off the ponytail, but is still big and mean looking enough to fit right into the genre. Gone this time is the trademark environmental speech from Seagal at the end of the film but at its beginning there's a rather cynical address from a man playing the Vice President Of America.

He's eloquent about the carnage caused by handguns in the U.S. - which is then followed by an extensive firefight during which Seagal and his adversaries must fire about 10000 rounds!

Of course the plot is of little consequence in these sorts of films which are only loosely tied together fragments of a story provided only to set up the next fight, but you can be sure that some of the cops will be corrupt of course.

Some relief is provided by, believe it or not Tom Arnold, who's lobbed into this mess playing some sort of manic talk show host and also by rapper DMX who does a passable impersonation of a movie actor - but hey, you don't need to act much in these sorts of films.

There are lots of big powerful fast cars, paid for mostly with drug money, and they always look remarkably clean until drilled with bullets and smashed into walls. Who washes renegade cops and drug dealers cars?

Women are treated with remarkable contempt. Check out the pouty female police chief. And what of the drug trade?

Please boys, go and see Traffic as well as Exit Wounds and you might not believe that guns and the drug trade are as fashionable and exciting as they look in Exit Wounds.

One Tom Arnold Fly.