Above the Law (1988) Poster

(1988)

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Sex & Nudity

  • A girl is seen in her bra and panties.

Violence & Gore

  • There's a brief shot of a guy getting his hand chopped off (blood squirts from the stump).
  • Nico knocks a man off of a barstool and breaks his arm, taking a gun from him as well.
  • In church in a religious congregation: They are religious people all of themselves alone: There's a bomb going off and some people are injured because of the incident.
  • Pay-TV content advisory for this movie: rated R for graphic violence (GV), adult language (AL) and adult content (AC).
  • Many people get shot. Big bullet impacts are often shown but rarely bloody.
  • Many innocent people get hurt or killed when a bomb goes off in a church.
  • There are several hand-to-hand fights where people are killed or badly injured.

Profanity

  • Strong language including 73 uses of "fuck," and many uses of "motherfucker," and "shit," as well as a few uses of "asshole."

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • All sorts of miscellaneous characters and extras smoke throughout the movie.
  • It's heavily implied that the bra girl mentioned above and her boyfriend used heroin and coke in one scene. Cocaine and heroin are mentioned a few more times.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • A couple of brutal fights/beatdowns.
  • A few seconds of disturbing war footage is seen.

Spoilers

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Violence & Gore

  • There's an alley fight scene between Nico and a group of thugs. He used a sword and slashes several of them, as well as punching and kicking them.
  • Nico punches Zagon in the face (it's shown all bloody), then graphically breaks his arm and his neck.

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