A few years after Chris Noth left the cast of Law & Order on television, he and Charles Kipps came up with the idea of a television special to reunite him with his audience. Chris is in a precinct in Staten Island, under the jurisdiction of Dabney Coleman, and with Dana Eskelson as a partner. He desperately wants to get back to his old territory, so he fudges the details of a homicide so he can crack the case and earn a transfer.The opening credits will reassure you that all the Law & Order cast members you know and love join Chris Noth in the movie, but in reality, they have glorified cameos. Jerry Orbach has maybe eight minutes on screen, Sam Waterston and S. Epatha Merkerson probably have five minutes each, and Benjamin Bratt has less than two minutes. But it's still fun to see them—it wouldn't be Exiled: A Law and Order Movie without them! If you love the series—really, who doesn't?—you'll probably want to watch this TV movie. It's extremely similar to the episodes, minus the absence of any courtroom scenes. There's a murder, colorful suspects, snappy banter, and a few one-liners that make you groan and chuckle at the same time.

Welcome to New York, or in fact to Staten Island where Mike Logan has been reassigned, in fact exiled. A case comes to Staten Island by the accident of some current in the Hudson River, the dead girl who was a "dancer" in a club with a pimp in the wings, got pregnant from the son of a mob boss. She does not want to abort, meaning that in her job she forgot her normal and daily precaution and care in the crystal clear order to get pregnant with that particular young man probably in order to get a promotion from shady lady to wife of a shady young man, a distant heir of Al Capone. The son of the mob boss kills her and carves her into pieces. Obviously he disagreed. Discovered by a cop in the process of that butcher's work, the cop helps him with the mattress and probably or simply maybe with the body. The cop cannot get his wife pregnant and to pay for the $12,000 in vitro fecundation he accepts some tips now and then from the mob boss and his son. In other words, he is a rotten cop that smells like some black cocaine produced by some animals generally called cows or bulls. Mike Logan, following the body of the girl from Staten Island to Manhattan easily finds out there is a rotten cop somewhere and he has the great privilege of finding who, and that who is a colleague he worked with three years earlier when he was still working in Manhattan. Kind of sad and a little bit contrite, but justice is justice: give your weapon and your badge to the boss – is she a captain of some sort? – of the precinct. And how is he going to be able to pay for the in-vitro fecundation of his wife? No humane thinking in this police film. It is not so bad, in fact it is even decent, to help the son of a mob boss when he has entangled himself in a nasty crime, not help him commit the crime, but help him clean up the place, or is it the plate, though this sounds a little bit cannibalistic. Apart from that, New York is a fascinating place. Either you are a mob boss, or the son or daughter or relative or employee of one, or you are a pimp, or a girl employed by such a shady character (Ice T actually), or a customer of one of these girls in the numerous bars and clubs in Manhattan, no matter where, provided the girls lap- dance rapidly and profitably. They can be displaced by a mayor, but they will go to a neighborhood where they can easily grow and multiply. On the police side there is always a dirty rotten one and then those – most of the others – who will willfully not see that rotten egg in the basket. And that will end up sad and tearful. That sure does not show the slightest smallest and tiniest nice thing about New York City. But it is decent entertainment, and if you are nostalgic you'll be able to see the twin towers that have not been there since a certain 9/11, 2001. Enjoy the New York of crime and squalor.Dr. Jacques COULARDEAU

I am glad Chris Noth is back on "Law & Order" (Criminal Intent)... This made for T.V. movie was very entertaining!! Dealing with the real life habits of mob related criminal activity fortified this NBC Special movie tremendously!! Chris Noth was in virtually every scene in this special presentation, I think it is because the television audience really likes the character Mike Logan on "Law & Order"!!! Chris Noth does an excellent job as a straight forward detective who has the challenge of bringing down crime in his blood stream!! Mike Logan is tough and likable, and this special made for T.V. movie was identifiable with all who remember him on the early days of "Law & Order" ... I give this movie a thumbs up, and I think that "Law & Order" has never been quite the same without Chris Noth!! He and Dennis Farina are my favorite characters on the series!! I recommend to everyone who likes "Law & Order" that they see "Exiled" .. I think the lack of scruples with the underworld takes on a peculiar dimension with this movie... Chris Noth is great in "Exiled" and cameo appearances by many of the "Law& Order" cast contribute to this movie as well!! I give this NBC made for T.V. movie a resounding approval.. Perfect 10!!

I found the movie to be a total farce. In the first place the movie makes it seem that there are no homicide or other serious crime committed in Staten Island,and so Detective Logan is bored and homesick for Manhattan. Give me a break.... In the second place when he goes back to his old command investigating the murder that was committed in the precinct's vicinity,they leave behind the only so called Spanish speaking detective that had taken Logan's place when he was so called, "Exiled" to Staten Island, and go to the crime scene, [the rundown hotel],to investigate. All together there are about five or six detectives, and not one speaks nor understands Spanish. Now we get to a crucial scene where Detective Logan asks the maid, "This is a new mattress. Where is the old one?" The maid answers, "No comprendo. No hablo Engles." Logan bends his head to the right, puts both hands to the right of his head, making a sleeping gesture, and says, "Sleep. Donde el matre old?" "Oh, el matre viejo", says the maid. "El matre viejo esta en la basura. Tenia mucha sangre." It takes the hotel keeper to tell Logan that apparently what she is saying is that the mattress had a lot of blood on it, and it's outside by the garbage. You mean to tell me that Chris Noth, working all those years in the area of New York City, could not tell the Producer Dick Wolf, that in this scene he wanted a Spanish speaking officer, in order to make the movie more realistic. All New York City precincts, have Spanish speaking patrolmen as well as detectives. We are in the '90s. I enjoy watching a good movie whether it's fiction or not, but I don't like a movie that tries to pretend that what it is showing is the way it is. If Chris Noth is to continue to write for the movie industry, I suggest he take a little initiative in trying to give credit, where credit is deserved.