Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

A Disappointing Continuation

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

One Steven's better movies, good action w/o over doing it. A very good cast, some good lines, and moved along nicely, a good pace. On a technical note, of older films that have had the audio track updated to DD 5.1, this is one of the best results I've heard. The dialog was very pronounced, not muffled like many are. And the music score was very noticeable. Unlike some of the old westerns which the music track level was so low, go almost go unnoticed.

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")

This is by far the best movie Steven Seagal ever made. I think it was his first movie, and because of this, I surmise, he probably left the people alone that had the creative control. He was also younger then, and in better shape then he is now. His most recent movies appear to have action stunt doubles, whenever there is any jumping around required, and that's really a let down. In this movie the martial arts moves are crisp and believable. The writing in the movie was great and some of the lines, particularly by the bad guys like Zagon, I remember to this day. The actors that play the CIA "spooks" are good, as is Pam Grier, Seagal's partner in the movie. A great Martial Arts action movie, and definitely in my top 10 list.

One of Steven Seagal's best Movies was this debut and it had Critics and Action Fan's buzzing for good reason. It was all here in this Cop/Mob/CIA Film that pulled few punches and was as Plot rich as these Flicks get.Bad guys can make a Movie and here we have Zagon. From the beginning he is presented as a Masochistic Psychopath that is on the Government's Black ops payroll. He is a drug dealer, needle wielding, Above the Law, Mega-Criminal that will be the Heroes biggest Fish-Fry.Segal is a lean, mean (but sensitive), and relentless purveyor of pure here and he is charismatic on screen announcing that he will be a force to reckon. This is in his Top-5 for sure with more than competent Direction from Andy Davis and the Movie looks great. The Action never stops and is helped along with a strong, if maybe too full, Script that raised the bar for the other Martial Arts/Action Stars.After this one Seagal never looked back and is still making some instantly forgettable and slightly entertaining DTV Movies to this day. Recently he showed up in a strong Cameo in the Robert Rodriguez Funfest, Machete (2010).