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    Crime films from the 1980s ranked by how many laws they broke

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    An incredibly unpleasant film, the Clint Eastwood-directed Sudden impact begins with a woman being gang-raped (played by Eastwood’s real-life lover, Sondra Locke) and gets nastier from there. To his honor(?), Sudden impact attempts to come to terms with the tension between Callahan’s extreme methods and the fact that he gets results. But given the wickedness of the central crime, Sudden impact remains completely on Callahan’s side, convinced that the law must be broken to stop the extreme sick.

    5. Code of Silence (1985)

    As we’ll soon see, director Andrew Davis has made a name for himself by getting great performances from charisma-free action heroes. In Code of silencehe succeeds in this trick with Chuck Norrisa man whose martial arts abilities impressed Bruce Lee and whose acting skills impressed no one. Davis gets a lot of help Code of silence filling the film with excellent supporting actors, including Dennis Farina, Henry Silva and Ron Dean.

    But while the ensemble cast helps spread a lot of responsibility, it also makes the Chicago PD look really, really corrupt. Which, to his credit, is somewhat the aim of Code of silence. Written by Michael Butler, Dennis Shryack and Mike Gray, Code of silence deals with a gang war in Chicago that breaks out after a corrupt cop kills an innocent man. The resulting turmoil forces officers to decide whether they stand for the law or the badge, and while Norris’ Eddie Cusack fights for the former, many others do not.

    4. Lethal Weapon 2 (1989)

    “He’s just been revoked,” sneers Roger Murtaugh (Danny Glover) before killing corrupt South African official Arjen Rudd (Joss Ackland) who has just invoked diplomatic immunity. It is difficult to see how an aging sergeant has the right to revoke a diplomat’s immunity, even if that diplomat is an Afrikaner who extols the virtues of apartheid in South Africa and the sergeant is a black man. But then Murtaugh and his partner Riggs (Mel Gibson) have already committed their fair share of questionable activities during the first Deadly weapon from 1987, directed by Richard Donner.

    Giving is for the sequelbut while original screenwriter Shane Black has a story credit, alongside Warren Murphy, Jeffrey Boam gets sole screenplay credit for this follow-up. This set of names makes it difficult to see who exactly deserves the blame for pushing Murtaugh to the brink instead of making him keep Riggs in check. When Murtaugh gets too old to be reasonable, Deadly weapon breaks down, and the two cops engage in all manner of illegal behavior to eliminate their reprehensible prey in a third-act bloodbath.

    3. Above the Law (1988)

    If they don’t think about his embarrassing lineup of direct-to-video action films or his support for dictators like Vladimir Putin, anyone who hears that name Steven Seagal I’m thinking of 1992 Besieged. And for good reason. Seagal may be the world’s least compelling action star, but Besieged the rules, thanks to the real star Tommy Lee Jones and director Andrew Davis. Before BesiegedDavis got a strong performance from Seagal with Above the law.

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