Above The Law

– Yuen Biao plays Jason Chan a lawyer, angry at the way the law seems to protect the bad guys, he deci..

Type:
Movie
Rating:
7.10 / 10
Duration:
One Hour and 42 Minutes
Release Year:
1988
Original Name:
執法先鋒
Above the Law (1988) - Also known as 執法先鋒

Yuen Biao plays Jason Chan a lawyer, angry at the way the law seems to protect the bad guys, he decides to take the law into his own hands when a key witness and his entire family are murdered. but Cindy Si is soon on his case and it all spirals into a situation only a few will survive.

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Above the Law (1988) - Trailer

Release Date:

22 Apr 1988

Language:

English, Spanish, Assyrian Neo-Aramaic

MPAA Content-Rating:
R – Restricted

Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian. Contains some adult material. Parents are urged to learn more about the film before taking their young children with them.

Director:

Andrew Davis

Writer:

Andrew Davis (story), Steven Seagal (story), Steven Pressfield (screenplay), Ronald Shusett (screenplay), Andrew Davis (screenplay)

Main Actors:

Steven Seagal, Pam Grier, Henry Silva, Ron Dean

Plot:

In Japan, the Sicilian martial arts expert Nicolo "Nico" Toscani is recruited by the CIA Special Agent Nelson Fox to join the Special Operations Forces in the border of the Vietnam and Cambodia. In 1973, Nico witnesses the torturer Kurt Zagon interrogating prisoners of war and he is disgusted and quits the CIA, returning to Chicago. Fifteen years later, Nico is married with a baby with his wife Sarah and they live in the same house of his mother. Nico is a tough and incorruptible narcotics detective of the Chicago Police Department very close to his partner and friend Delores 'Jacks' Jackson and his friend Detective Lukich. When Nico and Jacks investigate a drug traffic operation, they arrest the gang of the drug dealer Tony Salvano but they find that they are smuggling the plastic explosive C4 instead. However there is an interference of the FBI and Salvano and his partner are released by FBI Agent Neeley (Nicholas Kusenko) and the detectives are forbidden of proceed with the investigation. But Nico does not stop and is suspended from the police force. But when there is an explosion in the church of his neighborhood and his friend and parish priest Joseph Gennaro is murdered, Nico chases Salvano and discovers a corruption ring that is planning to kill the American Senator Ernest Harrison that is investigating the involvement of the CIA with drug traffic.

Production:

Warner Home Video

Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
6.0/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
53%
Metacritic:
45%