Wuchak
The next generation in Eastwood cop thrillers
An ex-CIA martial artist, is now a vice squad detective in Chicago (Steven Seagal) where he and his new partner (Pam Grier) investigate a drug ring, but are shocked when the drug lord (Tony Salvano) is let go by the Feds, which can be traced to his nemesis in the CIA (Henry Silva).
"Above the Law (1988) was Seagals cinematic debut. He claimed he picked the movie from a pile of scripts that Warner Brothers had lying around for Clint Eastwood. I bring that up because the film is basically the next generation in Eastwoods detective thrillers, just mixed with the martial arts and general plot of Code of Silence from three years earlier. That one had the same director, as well as the same...