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Watch: Above the Law 1988 123movies, Full Movie Online – Nico learned martial arts in Japan, and was in Vietnam for the CIA, and now is a cop in the vice squad of Chicago. A junkie tells him about a big drug deal; However it turns out that the deal was about C4 explosives and that one of the parties was the CIA. Nico gets ordered to keep out of it, but can’t imagine why the CIA would sell C4, so he investigates further. While risking his and his young family’s life, he discovers that the CIA tries to cover it’s connections to drug dealers in Middle America and wouldn’t even stop from murder..
Plot: Nico Toscani is an Italian immigrant, American patriot, ex-CIA agent, aikido specialist and unorthodox Chicago policeman. He is as committed to his job as he is to his personalized brand of justice—expert and thorough bone-crushing.
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	6.0/10 Votes: 32,432
	50% | RottenTomatoes
	45/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 551 Popularity: 14.39 | TMDB

Reviews:

Excellent Debut of Steven Seagal
In Japan, the Sicilian martial arts expert Nicolo “Nico” Toscani (Steven Seagal) is recruited by the CIA Special Agent Nelson Fox (Chelcie Ross) to join the Special Operations Forces in the border of the Vietnam and Cambodia. In 1973, Nico witnesses the torturer Kurt Zagon (Henry Silva) interrogating prisoners of war and he is disgusted and quits the CIA, returning.

Fifteen years later, Nico is married with a baby with his wife Sarah (Sharon Stone) 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 (Pam Grier) and his friend Detective Lukich (Ron Dean). When Nico and Jacks investigate a drug traffic operation, they arrest the gang of the drug dealer Tony Salvano (Daniel Faraldo) 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 (Joe V. Greco) is murdered, Nico chases Salvano and discovers a corruption ring that is planning to kill the American Senator Ernest Harrison (Joe D. Lauck) that is investigating the involvement of the CIA with drug traffic.

“Above the Law” is the excellent debut of Steven Seagal in the cinema industry. When I saw this movie for the first time twenty-five years ago, I immediately became fan of this actor that used the style of Charles Bronson and Clint Eastwood associated to great fight choreography and violence. Today I have seen it again on DVD and the story is still full of action and has not aged after all these years. My vote is seven.

Title (Brazil): “Nico Acima da Lei” (“Nico Above the Law”)

Gritty thriller housing a series of fantastic action scenes
Steven Seagal’s acting debut is a fast-moving little crime thriller, involving drugs smuggling, police corruption, and a maverick cop (guess who?). This above average thriller has a pretty generic plot, but there are lots of fight scenes to keep things moving swiftly along, and also the benefit of a young-looking Seagal. The pacing is spot on and a tight budget used to full extent in terms of screen spectacle. This was before Seagal became a totally indestructible killer who the bad guys couldn’t lay a finger on, here he looks fragile and takes a beating before the final credits. Therefore, this guy is always on the line, instead of the viewer knowing that he’s going to kill everybody without a single scratch. The freshness of Seagal’s debuting character is what makes him of greater interest than normal.

The fight scenes in this film basically show off Seagal’s different abilities, whether it be jumping on the roof of a car to grab the bad guys, using his gun to take criminals down, or of course his famed martial arts skills which show him taking on multiple opponents with little effort required, packed with the bone-breaking violence we know and love. People are thrown through windows and into tables and there are plenty of exciting moments, like when a small shop becomes a battleground or the shoot-out in a multi-storey car park at the end. Added to this are memorable images such as a row of highly trained killers, walking down the street calmly while firing automatics. The fight choreography is excellent and the photography also superb, kudos to the cameraman for shooting the various scenes so well and making them look this good.

Seagal is supported by an interesting cast for once with numerous familiar faces in supporting roles. Genre favourite Henry Silva, the only man to look scarier without makeup than Christopher Walken, is sadistically evil as the chief villain, a torturer no less who enjoys inflicting sadistic torment on his enemies. His features constantly perverted in a twisted grimace, Silva makes an excellent bad guy and for once his death truly fits the crimes he has committed – let’s just say it involves a ton of explicit bone-breaking. Up-and-coming starlet Sharon Stone has a small and rather thankless role as Seagal’s wife, although ’70s blaxploitation icon Pam Grier as Seagal’s partner fares a little better with a part which is still somewhat underwritten.

NICO: ABOVE THE LAW remains far more believable than other actioners of the time like Schwarzenegger’s COMMANDO, thanks to the plot which always keeps its feet on the ground and isn’t too elaborate to seem contrived. The events occur with an emphasis on realism and a degree of characterisation to engage the viewer. These events could happen and do happen, and there’s a gritty feeling to the film. It’s a bit clichéd, for sure, but the formula works, which is why it has been used so many times before and since. The clever drama gives Seagal one of his best roles and the film has a hard edge to it which his later actioners lack. Therefore it deserves an very good rating, as it’s a solid thriller which succeeds in all that it tries to achieve, thanks to solid direction from Andrew Davis (UNDER SIEGE) at the near peak of his game.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 39 min (99 min), 1 hr 34 min (94 min) (cut) (West Germany)
Budget 7500000
Revenue 18869631
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Action, Crime, Drama
Director Andrew Davis
Writer Andrew Davis, Steven Seagal, Steven Pressfield
Actors Steven Seagal, Pam Grier, Henry Silva
Country United States
Awards 1 nomination
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Stereo (4 channels)
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Arriflex 35 BL3, Zeiss Super Speed Lenses
Laboratory Technicolor, Hollywood (CA), USA
Film Length 2,673 m (Sweden, cut version), 2,710 m (Sweden, uncut version)
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm