Toot - Toot - Trumpet Fanfare! From the times when Jackie Chan and Yuen Biao
in the 1980's in a couple of films virtually overrided the law of Gravity, and "Above
The Law" was one of them. From the Golden Era of Hong Kong filmmaking. When
women showed that performing martial arts on film also was something for them.
When a small strong american girl showed that she fully mastered Kung Fu and the
Martial Arts and even performed the often bruise inducing stunts.

That girl was Cynthia Rothrock.
In Righting Wrongs/Above the Law she had one of her best, if not The Best role
where she really could show-case her phenomenal agility and so could her partner
in the film, Yuen Biao, showing his beautiful elegance and gravity-defying moves.

Above pic: The very early HK Universe DVD edition

The Film:

Starts with a massacre when 3 gweilo murders a procecutor and then gets killed
themselves by Prosecutor Hsia Ling Cheng / Ha Ling Ching (Yuen Biao).
Hsia runs a case against criminals Wei and Chou but he only has one witness,
Liang, and when the whole Liang family is murdered by a Hitman (Peter Cunningham)
Hsia has to drop the case.
Frustrated Hsia turns into a Vigilante á la Dirty Harry or Charles Bronson. He takes
the law into his own hands and punishes criminals.
Cynthia plays the Crime Inspector Cindy / Sandy Shih Li-Yi who chases Hsia, and
she punishes both criminals and male chauvinists. Bad guy: "You're only a
Caucasian woman" Rothrock: "Yeah Right, hold my beer".
As always Cynthia sounds adorable with her energetic Cantonese dubbing, love it.
It's sexy as hell and I am a sick puppy, I know.

Spoiler Alert ! - Spoiler Alert below !

The Bad Guy is Melvin Wong's Wang the corrupt and evil police chief and he's
great in the role. Cindy is assisted by inept cop "Bad Egg" (played by director
Corey Yuen Kwai) and she has a fine all-woman fight with Karen Sheperd, who
also in real life was an adversary to Rothrock competing about the US and World
Champion martial arts titles.
With Bad Egg's death the film takes a sinister turn and in Hong Kong Neo-Noir
style both Cynthia's Cindy and Biao's Hsia DIES shockingly, but an alternate
Happy End ending where both survived was shot, as audiences craved it.

In the original ending Biao's Hsia jumps from a plane and lands in the sea and dies
from the impact with the water. No cinematic fantasy jump as hitting the water
from such a height would've been like hitting cement.
widescreen 16:9 ratio, 5.1 or mono Cantonese audio with english subtitles or
english dub. Extras:
Audio commentary with HK film expert Bey Logan
The Vigilante: Interview with Yuen Biao
Action Overload: Interview with Cynthia Rothrock
From the Ring to the Silver Screen: Interview with Peter Cunningham
Alternate ending where both survives
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