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| Warner Bros. | Release Date: April 22, 1988 |
Starring:
Chelcie Ross, Daniel Faraldo, Henry Silva, Joe Greco, Miguel Nino, Nicholas Kusenko, Pam Grier, Ron Dean, Sharon Stone, Steven Seagal
Summary:
A former Special Operations Vietnam vet works as a Chicago cop, and uncovers C.I.A. wrongdoing.
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Above the Law is action trash. But it's great action trash, running fast and furious from the first frame to the last. It's entirely possible - in fact, advisable - to forget the movie's right-to-left-wing political swings and just watch Seagal rage. [22 Apr 1988, p.7]
The movie has the same problem as Davis' Chuck Norris vehicle, Code of Silence. Starting in the semi-realistic framework of the '70s cop movies, it veers off into '80s action movie cloud-cuckoo land: the paranoid one-against-a-hundred cliches of the average Schwarzenegger-Stallone heavy-pectoral snow job. [08 Apr 1988, p.14]
Interesting. Not worth the trouble, but interesting. [22 Apr 1988, p.C5]
Above The Law is beneath contempt, a movie whose esthetic politics stand somewhere to the right of tyrannosaurus rex.
You know the type. Take your standard-issue Vietnam vet, martial-arts-mastering, renegade cop and turn him loose on the mean streets of any photogenic city (Chicago and its El, in this neon-and-sleaze case). [26 Apr 1988]
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