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So this is where the Segal legacy began...


It's a Segal movie, so you know he's going to walk away after beating everyone. It was Steven Segal's first time in front of the camera and even then it was apparent that Segal saw himself as too good to ever be hit. To his credit though, he allowed for some offense on the part of his opponents. He got hit by a car and a guy shoved him (before being knocked unconscious with a retaliatory punch) which is more offense than most non-main opponent characters get in his films. As for the final battle, it consisted of him being choked with chicken wire, struck twice with a leather glove, and injected with an unspecified chemical agent before he broke free of his confines and whooped five guys in a span of under a minute. Even so, that's gotta be a record for cumulative offense against Segal in a single film. An interesting note, the film portrayed Segal as fighting in Vietnam. As you know, America did not win that war. That said, I was surprised that Segal did not take it upon himself to defeat the entire Vietnamese army with his bare hands and declare himself the winner of the war. Had the movie been made in the mid-90s, he might have done as much. Oh, and did I mention that Segal is loved by everybody, has the ability to push around superior officers without any punishment, and is fluent in no less than four different languages? Yep, in this film Segal's fluent in Italian, English, Espanol, and Japanese. For what it's worth, it was a mildly entertaining film in the end. Segal is slowly becoming one of my favorite comedians.

If I were more computer savvy and had the technology, I'd make a Youtube compilation of "Steven Segal getting his ass kicked" pieced together from the three or four offensive moves his opponents get per film.

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"Attempted murder? Now honestly, what is that? Do they give a Nobel Prize for attempted chemistry?"

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You mean this is the template for every single film he makes from then on...

Ex Special Forces agent with a stupid name saves unknown actress from 2 dimensional villain by bitch slapping cardboard bad guys with minimum effort...

Add pretentious title and crap dress sense, stir with a big stick and release to public every year!

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Well said.

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"Attempted murder? Now honestly, what is that? Do they give a Nobel Prize for attempted chemistry?"

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