Exiled

By JAMES COLLINS

Fans of Law & Order are likely to be disappointed by this presentation, which is billed as "A Law & Order Movie" and which stars Chris Noth, who left the show in 1995. For one thing, there's no "Order": the story concerns only a police investigation into a prostitute's murder, with no treatment of the prosecution. The detectives from the current show, meanwhile, appear only minimally. The viewer is left with a mediocre police drama, which features Noth in virtually every shot. Looking more than ever like Victor Mature, he does his cop-who-plays-by-his-own-rules routine adequately, but you can see most of his moves, and those of the plot, coming a mile away. Ice-T, as usual, provides some spark, here playing a pimp.

--By James Collins