When the execrable Snoop Dogg vehicle Urban Menace made its debut in video stores a few months ago, it looked like little more than an awful little exploitation film cynically hoisted upon its target demographic. The release of Corrupt, however, suggests that it was actually something far more commercially savvy: the first of three nearly identical exploitation films—probably filmed at the same time, each boasting an eerily similar supporting cast, and all featuring the same director (Albert Pyun), creative team, and sets. Like Urban Menace, Corrupt looks like it was financed with the loose change star and producer Ice-T found in his couch one day. Like Urban Menace, it mixes sub-standard action with supernatural elements thrown in seemingly at random. And, like Urban Menace, it's a movie only in the loosest possible sense of the word. Unlike Urban Menace, however, Corrupt boasts a plot that is at least comprehensible on some rudimentary level, having something to do with a bitter feud between the titular gangsta kingpin (Ice-T, who can actually act) and young upstart Silkk The Shocker. That's about all it has to offer, unless you're into student-film-level acting and some of the cheapest special effects this side of syndicated Canadian science-fiction shows. Ludicrously padded even at 72 minutes, with a prolonged end-credits sequence—do the cast credits really need to be listed twice?—Corrupt is at least better than Urban Menace. But, then again, the same can be said of just about every movie ever made. Those hankering for more of that Ice-T/Pyun magic need wait only a few months for the video release of Wrecking Crew, the final installment in the duo's gangstas-wandering-around-in-an-abandoned-warehouse trilogy.