Above the Law (1988)

	Directed by: Andrew Davis	COUNTRY USA GENRE Action/Thriller NORWEGIAN TITLE Nico RUNNING TIME 99 minutes
	Produced by: Steven Seagal Andrew Davis
	Written by: Steven Pressfield Andrew Davis Ronald Shusett

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
Sergeant Nicolo 'Nico' Toscani	Steven Seagal
Detective Delores 'Jacks' Jackson	Pam Grier	½
CIA Agent Kurt Zagon	Henry Silva	½
Detective Lukich	Ron Dean	-
Sara Toscani	Sharon Stone	-
Man In Bar	Michael Rooker	-
Thug In Bar	John C. Reilly	-

Review

Steven Seagal is pure raw material in this, the first of many co-productions between him and Andrew Davis. Fresh from his diverse background in martial arts, Japanese culture and various American regions and ways of life, Seagal displays a sensitivity to his machismo which gives an otherwise fairly standard wild-cop-and-wilder-bad-guys script an edge and a heart. And in addition to Seagal's accomplished performance, the charismatic Pam Grier and Henry Silva are vivacious, if overly stereotypical, by his side. Seagal and Davis followed up with Under Siege three years later.