Righting Wrongs
AKA: Above the Law
1986
Director: Corey Yuen
Stars: Yuen Biao, Cynthia Rothrock, Corey Yuen, Wu Ma, Melvin Wong, Fan Siu-Wong, Karen Shepard
Yuen Biao stars as a lawyer who takes the law into his own hands after a key witness in his first big case is killed. Cynthia Rothrock plays her typical "dragon lady" hot-headed cop on Yuen's trail.
While the plot isn't anything special, the action comes fast and furious in Righting Wrongs. It's definitely some of Rothrock's best work, worlds above most of her crappy US B-movies. She is, bar none, the best non-Asian fighter I've seen in a martial arts movie. Her fights in Righting Wrongs are fantastic, especially one where she fights fellow gweilo Karen Shepard, which ends with her making a 20-foot high flying tackle.
Yuen Biao is also great in the movie, doing a tremendous job with both stunts and fighting. The scene where he literally dives over several cars trying to run him over has to be seen to be believed, and the fights between him and Rothrock are outstanding. He also does a fine job in the acting department, but it's the action that really makes Righting Wrongs shine and shows why people still have such love for the "golden age" of Hong Kong action movies.
RATING: 8
