Above the Law (1988)

Cast

Sharon Stone
as Sara Toscani
Michael Rooker
as Man in Bar
Steven Seagal
as Nico Toscani
Pam Grier
as Delores 'Jacks' Jackson

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Genres & Description

Action Crime Drama Mystery Thriller

6.0 / 10

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 ...

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ThePandaTrain7

it is - @Monday, August 19, 2013 12:59 AM

dnasty312

thought I heard it in Better Off Dead - @Thursday, April 18, 2013 3:36 AM

Mr. Black

Hmm...the movie seemed good as a cop movie but i guess the plot was more focused in justice rather than the mob. Good movie from Andrew Davis! :D - @Friday, August 31, 2012 4:18 AM

lumnir

whats the song or soundtrack at 0:25 - @Saturday, April 7, 2012 10:01 PM

Yapostadodat

4 people think they are above the law! - @Wednesday, June 29, 2011 5:04 AM

DJsmokeAlot4

i love this movie sooo much, one of my favorites - @Monday, April 18, 2011 10:46 PM

spacyfuture

luv it - @Monday, January 24, 2011 7:33 PM

Geordie shoreGAZ

u think your above the his law you are wrong - @Wednesday, December 1, 2010 4:27 AM

Kevin Kallon

@JuniperSprouts to who? - @Tuesday, October 26, 2010 9:26 PM

szewei85

this the best seagal movie ever HANDS DOWN - @Thursday, September 23, 2010 10:06 PM

Yapostadodat

The moves he does are very real and it's ALL him, like Bruce Lee did in his films. You don't have to believe the hype, this film speaks for itself. - @Friday, August 20, 2010 7:03 AM

007JStewart

Best Steven Seagal movie EVER!!! - @Sunday, August 15, 2010 4:58 PM

Yapostadodat

Give Segal ALL the shite you want but THIS movie is GOOD! He has a serious presence and his moves are simple, it's all him and he is lean and mean! - @Sunday, May 2, 2010 8:25 AM

PatrynXX

Think Obama oughtta used the montage :P put Nico on Bush /Cheney. :) - @Sunday, September 20, 2009 9:55 PM

ollietheocta

ahaha i did its fucking amazing - @Sunday, June 28, 2009 7:08 PM