Above The Law (1988)

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Tv & Film, Film Reviews, Film History

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🗓️ 21 November 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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A martial-arts expert and former CIA agent, Nico Toscani (Steven Seagal) is working as a Chicago cop when a relatively routine drug-trafficking investigation leads to an international conspiracy. Soon Nico and his partner, Delores "Jax" Jackson (Pam Grier), are the targets of mysterious and powerful criminals, but he refuses to back down. As Nico gets deeper into the case, he must contend with an old adversary: corrupt CIA operative Kurt Zagon (Henry Silva). And that is an unnecessarily complicated script written for the greatest Steven Seagal movie ever made. Today on Buzzn The Tower we are gonna talk all things Above The Law. I'm Mo Shapiro and joining me as always the broken wrist to my Aikido, Max Sanders. And with that...

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0:00.0	Are you aware of the connection between this movie and another movie from 2008 called Step Brothers?
0:17.0	Ow. In the movie Step Brothers, you may recall the scene when Brennan, played by Will
0:22.0	Pharaoh, and Dale played by John C. Riley, meet Derek, Brennan's
0:26.0	brother and they hated him and they bond over hating him.
0:29.7	The whole scene where they're like, did we just become best friends?
0:32.1	You remember all that? So then they
0:33.4	continue to be best friends right when they say that it kicks into the hollow notes song you make
0:37.1	my you make my dreams come true. Okay you might recall when they sit down and they're
0:41.6	watching above the law.
0:43.2	Oh my God.
0:43.9	Hold on!
0:44.5	Because that, my friend, is probably what most of our listeners said.
0:47.8	Oh yeah, that's the connection.
0:49.2	No, sir.
0:50.2	The real connection is, do you know what John C. Riley's debut film was?
0:55.0	He's not in this movie.
0:56.0	He's in Above LawMax in the bar scene when Nico goes in there and starts smashing people up.
1:01.0	Yeah.
1:02.0	He plays a thug in that bar scene now look I
1:05.3	find him I did not find him he's uncredited it is it is both been verified and
1:11.4	noted by IMDb and by him personally and so in Step Brothers
1:15.4	when they're watching above the law that is absolutely a wink and tip of the
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