Click on CAPCon Alert
image for explanation
A service to parents and grandparents
MAR21026
Exit Wounds (2001), (R)
CAP Score: 20
CAP Influence Density: 3.95
Click on CAPCon Alert image for explanation |
A service to parents and grandparents MAR21026 Exit Wounds (2001), (R) CAP Score: 20 CAP Influence Density: 3.95 |
|
 Switch to LifeLine  for Christian long distance service   Comments?  Christian Media News   A Singles Christian Network  Your One Stop  For Everything Christian Free Email Ministry  Subscribe Today!!  |
 Christian Banner eXchange For FREE text-only versions of our media analysis reports as they are calculated, open this email then click "send." If your browser does not handle this URL format properly, send us a request to add you. NOTE: If you do not want the plot, ending, or "secrets" of a movie spoiled for you, skip the Summary/Commentary. In any case, be sure to visit the Findings/Scoring section -- it is purely objective and is the heart of the CAP Entertainment Media Analysis Model applied to this movie  SUMMARY / COMMENTARY:
EXIT WOUNDS (R) -- feel free to leave your brain in your car. Detective Orin Boyd's (Steven Segal) take-no-prisoners approach to inner city terrorism is viewed with distaste by the powers that be. At the beginning of the movie, Boyd single-handedly rescues the Vice President from a well-equipped, well-organized army of bad guys by unloading just about every magazine and clip of ammunition and every form of ordnance and artillery available to the Detroit PD on the bad guys and by throwing the VP into the Detroit River. A *very* high body count results but the VP is saved. At best estimate, the body count was 19 and blood looked to be several gallons. But that is not by any means all the bodies generated in this ultra-violent flick. By the way, your brain will not be necessary. If you chose to watch this exercise in killing, feel free to leave your brain in your car. For some inexplicable reason, Boyd finds himself transferred to the lower of lower precincts of Detroit: Precinct 15. There he encounters some of cops who put the "red" in redneck. And he encounters some who seem to be okay -- for now anyway. As punitive and self-developmental measures, his new lady commander (Jill Hennessy) assigns Boyd to a self-help anger management therapy group and proceeds to show the rest of the group how to destroy a public classroom style chair just because it wouldn't let go of him. And Boyd not only disarms some heavily-armed would-be car thieves trying to steal his truck, he disables them all as well. One of the critters in the anger management group is Henry Wayne (Tom Arnold) who idolizes Boyd for his bravado with the would-be car thieves. Wayne ends up being Boyd's "partner." Wayne is also a TV smut - er - talk show host who spends the final minutes of the show as the credits roll talking about masturbation and sexually vulgar matters clearly gratuitous to the plot. Soon Boyd figures there is corruption in the department. And the plot begins to start having a little intelligence to it. The viewer will likely try to guess which of the Detroit PDs finest are in on the take -- from the Properties Room, that is. And guess who is at the head of the "organization?" [Hab. 2:12]. All I will spoil is that s/he was in the locker room with Boyd. Which brings up one of the issues of unacceptable behavior - a woman (the Pct. 15 commander) in the PD men's locker room (but it isn't her). Fifty kilograms of heroin turn up missing from the Properties Room [Hab. 2:9]. I think it was heroin. It was illegal drugs no matter which one. Illegal drugs that turn up in *in* T-shirts. Imagine that! T-shirts impregnated with drugs as a transport agent. A couple of the "bad guys" are Latrell Walker (DMX) and Walker's right-hand man, TK (Anthony Anderson). But lo and behold, neither is really a bad guy (by man's standards anyway). And DMX may very well be one of the top talented breathing bodies in the entire film. Killing, murder, attempted murder, fighting, beatings and threats with firearms took top billing in the annals of ignominy and zapped the Wanton Violence/Crime score [Isa. 13:11]. Foul language was, of course, a saturating presence and zapped the Impudence/Hate score [Prov. 17:20; 8:13]. Repeated full female nudity and vulgar dance while nude plus some innuendo zapped the Sex/Homosexuality score [Ezek. 16:58; Col 3:5]. Drug dealing, drug manufacturing operations and drinking took their toll on the Drugs/Alcohol score [1 Cor. 6:19]. Several uses of God's name in vain, once with the four letter expletive, drained the Offense to God score [Deut. 5:17], but no issues of cultism, occultism, witchcraft, or Satanism were noted. And of course murder took more points from the Murder/Suicide score than were left. The listing in the Findings/Scoring section will tell it all. If needed to focus or fortify, applicable text is underlined or bracketed [ ]. *******Food for Thought******* As always, it is best to refer to the Findings/Scoring section -- the heart of the CAP analysis model -- for the most complete assessment possible of this movie. FINDINGS / SCORING: 
NOTE: Multiple occurrences of each item described below may be likely, definitely when plural. Wanton Violence/Crime (W): Impudence/Hate (I)(1): Sex/Homosexuality (S): Drugs/Alcohol (D): Offense to God (O)(2): Murder/Suicide (M)(3):
  |
