If you're heading to the new Steven Seagal film Exit Wounds to see Calgary's very own Centre Street Bridge, which is featured prominently in commercials promoting the action flick, there are a few things you should keep in mind.

First off, you can see the bridge in real life for free and at any time as it is actually located in Calgary somewhere, I'm fairly certain, around Centre Street.

Secondly, if you own a television, commercials are also free for viewing.

Next, despite the absence of stringent truth in advertising legislation, the tag line for the film, "This is gonna hurt," is surprisingly quite accurate. And finally, and this is perhaps the most important thing to keep in mind, it is a Steven Seagal film -- and a very, very bad one at that.

In a cliched storyline that was probably lifted from a future Simpsons episode featuring the MacGarnicle character, Seagal stars as Orin Boyd, an honest Detroit cop who has the sometimes bad reputation of playing by his own rules.

When those rules, or lack there of, have him disregarding orders and foiling an assassination attempt on the vice- president (this is the bridge scene, by the way, and it's the first five minutes of the picture), he gets sent to the city's most crime-ridden district.

Once there, Boyd, a man of few words and many grunts and fists, gets accidentally embroiled in a horribly convoluted scheme involving dirty cops, good cops, drug dealers, Internet geniuses, convicts, club owners and a sleazy talk show host with anger-management issues (the latter is played by Tom Arnold who is, it seems, simply playing Tom Arnold).

Through it all there are a lot of car chases, trademark Seagal fight sequences, one-liners, hip hop tracks, a half-hearted love interest subplot involving the outrageously miscast Jill Hennessy, and various Toronto and Calgary landmarks.

But none of those are good reasons to sit through this cobbled together, badly acted, terribly executed, D-grade slab of redundancy.

Especially not when what you're really paying to see can be had during any daily commute.

(This film is rated AA)

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