When a dedicated police officer is murdered, his father goes on a hunt for the people responsible. This is more like the Steven Seagal that I used to enjoy in the early 90s in films like Hard to Kill, Out for Justice and Marked for Death. He actually is this movie and appears in almost every scene.<br/><br/>Apparently he has run through enough dead wives that no one would marry him, so he is after the person who killed his son. He is a determined killing machine.<br/><br/>As expected from a film that features urban gangs, every other word is f*cker or motherf*cker. I actually think they have beaten Scarface with this film.<br/><br/>The only real criticism I had was the lighting. Almost the entire film took place at night and it was hard to watch. I guess that is to be expected in an urban environment.<br/><br/>My man, Danny Trejo, gets his 15 seconds of fame in the movie. Steven Seagal had great early 1990s as a leading action man although apart from Under Siege his films were not that good.<br/><br/>However a growing ego and belly, a reputation to be difficult to work with and interview led a downward spiral of poor films many of them going straight to DVD.<br/><br/>In Urban Justice he plays the dad of a vice cop killed on duty. Seagal is out to get the culprits no matter what. His trail leads to some rival gangs but one gang leader is in league with some dirty cops for money and drugs.<br/><br/>The plot is simple although it gets lost with the stereotypical street hoodlums and gangster jive. Its a B movie filler with a leading man that is out of shape, puffy with a bad hair piece/implants. A lot of Seagal's fight scenes are done in semi darkness with him making similar moves such as taking the gun from the bad guy standing a few feet away from him. A move he has done for years and several decades in this film.<br/><br/>The film is bad and only loosely entertaining mainly because of Eddie Griffin.
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