Urban Justice (2007)

Urban Justice (released in the United Kingdom as Renegade Justice) is a 2007 American vigilante action film directed and shot by Don E. FauntLeRoy. The film stars Steven Seagal, who also producer, with a supporting cast of Eddie Griffin, Carmen Serano and Danny Trejo. It was released direct-to-DVD in the United States on November 13, 2007.

Plot.

In Los Angeles, two rival gangs war with each other: the Hyde Park Gang, led by El Chivo, and the East Side Gangsters, led by Armand Tucker. Vice cop Max Ballister receives a call he assumes to be from his informant, Gary Morrison. Max leaves a romantic dinner with his wife and is gunned down. Max’s angry father, Simon, a martial arts expert who is implied to be ex-CIA, moves to the neighborhood in which Max died and begins investigating. His landlady, Alice Park, who also runs a liquor store, aids him. The others do not know that the investigating cop, Frank Shaw, has formed a partnership with Tucker. As Simon investigates, he leaves a trail of beaten and dead gangsters. Gary gives Simon a lead on El Chivo, who runs most of the booking joints that Max went after.

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At his private club, El Chivo suggests that Tucker ordered the hit on Max. A pair of East Side Gangsters chase Simon via car, and Simon causes them to crash. One gangster dies, and Simon interrogates the other, Gary’s brother Isaiah Morrison, who says Tucker sent them. Isaiah talks to Tucker, and Tucker threatens to kill everyone Isaiah cares about unless he kills Simon. The next morning, Simon saves Gary from a group of racists. Simon asks him if Isaiah was Max’s killer, but Gary does not respond. As Gary leaves, Simon plants a tracking device on him. Simon tracks Gary to a warehouse and uses electronic equipment to eavesdrop on his conversation, a meeting between the gangs.

After Simon plants more tracking devices, he hears Shaw and a sudden burst of gunfire. When it is over, Chivo’s gang is dead at the hands of dirty cops in the employ of Shaw; Tucker and Shaw take the drugs and money. Simon tracks them to another warehouse, breaks in, and finds their cocaine. Tucker’s men follow Simon back to Park’s liquor store, where Simon has an apartment. Using his tracking device, Simon notices they are outside and tells Alice to hide. When they break in, Simon kills them and escorts Alice outside past more gangsters, whom he kills. Tucker shoots Simon and wounds him, then manages to escape. Alice takes Simon to her cousin, Winston, who works at USC Medical center.

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Reception.

Nathan Rabin of The Dissolve wrote, “Urban Justice is a sublimely ridiculous exercise in unintentional self-parody, a so-bad-it’s-good romp highly recommended to Seagal fans and detractors alike.” Hock Teh of IGN rated it 5/10 and recommended it Seagal fans only. Ian Jane of DVD Talk rated it 3/5 stars and wrote that “the film is entertaining if you don’t mind turning your brain off”. David Johnson of DVD Verdict rated it 58/100 and wrote that the film has poor acting and fight scenes.

Cast:

Steven Seagal as Simon Ballister
Eddie Griffin as Armand Tucker
Carmen Serano as Alice Park
Cory Hart as Max Ballister
Liezl Carstens as Linda
Kirk B. R. Woller as Det. Frank Shaw
Mary Evans as Irene
Al Staggs as Priest
Jade Yorker as Gary Morrison
Jermaine Washington as Rasheed
Brian Lucero as Benny
Danny Trejo as El Chivo
Diego Lopez as Winston
Grady McCardell as Dwight Morris
Brett Brock as Watch Sergeant
Ronald Hamilton as Police Man