“Out For Justice” is a rough and tough cop movie starring Steven Seagal (“The Glimmer Man”, “Half Past Dead”) but it is unfortunately, a rather dull movie. It’s pretty sad when a film that is little over 90 minutes in length feels more like a few hours but sadly, that’s the case with “Out For Justice”.

After the brutal murder of a fellow police officer, Detective Gino Felino (Seagal) stalks the streets of Brooklyn for the man responsible (William Forsythe “The Rock”). There are car chases, shootouts, fistfights, barfights, knife fights and every other type of fight you could want but hardly any of it feels very interesting because the film fails to create a sense of danger.

Action stars such as Jackie Chan (“Rush Hour”), Jean-Claude Van Damme (“Sudden Death”) and Arnold Schwarzenegger (“Predator”) usually finish most fights with cuts and bruises but Seagal rarely gets a crease in his clothes and this is why you can’t invest his characters because you know he’s never in any danger. Seagal’s attempt at a Brooklyn accent is quite funny. The other characters in the film aren’t very entertaining and the main bad guy gets very little screen time (many of his scenes were apparently cut) so it is hard to find him particularly interesting.

“Out For Justice” features a fun car chase early on in the film followed by a relatively decent fight in a shop but after that, the energy of the filmmaker’s must have been evaporated because the action sequences in the rest of the movie feel very mundane in comparison. The story is minimal and it feels that there is a lot of going backwards and forwards between several locations and several characters, which becomes a little tiresome. Fans of Seagal will no doubt enjoy this corny action flick but I think the masses will find it a dull experience.