PLOT
Who better to clean up a corrupt police precinct than a highly decorated but insubordinate cop skilled in gunplay and the martial arts?

CAUTION
Rated R for strong violence, language, and some sexuality/nudity. Several scenes take place in a topless club.

BOTTOM LINE
Seagal dispels the quaint notion that in order to keep the law, cops need to obey the law.

PLOT
Two snipers, one Russian, one German, play cat and mouse among the ruins of WWII Stalingrad.

CAUTION
Rated R for strong graphic war violence and some sexuality. Contains a fully clothed but lengthy sex scene.

BOTTOM LINE
Visually striking; a success had the film been wordless, it loses credibility each time the characters open their mouths.

PLOT
The search for an elusive Mexican pistol creates the backdrop for this bloody romantic comedy/drama.

CAUTION
Rated R for violence and language. Also contains some sensuality and the implication of homosexual intercourse.

BOTTOM LINE
Despite its strong cast, the movie remains a mishmash of genres with an unsettling amount of Tarantino-esque violence.

PLOT
A mailman must spend several days alone with his pretty neighbor's son and an FBI dog on the run from the Mob.

CAUTION
Rated PG for crude humor, language, and comic violence.

BOTTOM LINE
Decent lessons about family and responsibility are couched in an idiotic story aimed a lowest-common-denominator child audience.

PLOT
A New York cop and an arson investigator track two killers who are filming their crimes and manipulating the media.

CAUTION
Rated R for strong violence, language, and sexuality. Contains a scene with a topless prostitute.

BOTTOM LINE
Effective as a thriller, less so as an indictment of blood- and scandal-obsessed media-it's just as violent as that which it condemns.