Review of Above the Law

An American police drama; A story about a martial-arts expert and former CIA agent working as a Chicago cop who becomes the target of some mysterious and powerful criminals, and corruption in his own back yard. Seagal's strength is his screen presence and the credibility that goes with him doing his own stunts; fight sequences are choreographed impressively to show the simplicity of combat technique. The story covers a lot of ground - not just individual crimes, but a theme about authority acting above the law. Some of the early scenes in the film suffer from lack of projection, and there are leaps in the timeline which can be confusing, and there is little explanation of the extreme violence meted out by the villains, which becomes a stretch in believability.