Above the Law
A martial-arts expert and former CIA agent, Nico Toscani is working as a Chicago cop when a relatively routine drug-trafficking investigation leads to an international conspiracy. But the FBI tells him to forget the bust-on direct orders from the CIA...
20 December 1932, Chicago, Illinois, USA
6 April 1955, Jasper, Alabama, USA
22 May 1981, Bronx, New York, USA
9 January 1913, Yorba Linda, California, USA
13 November 1928, Chicago, Illinois, USA
26 May 1949, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
10 March 1958, Meadville, Pennsylvania, USA
26 October 1942, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
15 November 1939, Miami, Florida, USA
1963, Trang Bang, South Vietnam [now Vietnam]
7 May 1941, La Mesa, California, USA
25 June 1953, Chicago, Illinois, USA
July 29, 2002
above-average, and much better than Seagal's later efforts
January 01, 2000
It contains 50 percent more plot than it needs, but that allows it room to grow in areas not ordinarily covered in action thrillers.
April 29, 2009
...old-fashioned, nonstop violence from beginning to end, with subtlety out the window.
January 01, 2000
It might be arguable whether it is the best Seagal film or not, but Nico still has all important Seagal trademarks.
April 26, 2004
Seagal's best.
January 01, 2000
Woefully short on originality, intelligibility and anything resembling taste.
October 09, 2016
Above the Law has enough off-beat updates on the cops-and-robbers theme to at least make the film visually interesting most of the time.
October 03, 2002
An artifact from way back when Steven Seagal was novel and therefore sort of cool.
April 09, 2015
A jejune actioner that has pretensions of making a political statement about such things as drugs, smuggling and illegals.
January 20, 2016
...the overstuffed narrative contributes heavily to the movie's eventual downfall...
