Beyond the Law
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Actor: Brian Law, Dennis Burkley, Ed Adams, Hollie Chamberlain, Linda FiorentinoBrand: Lions Gate
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Full Screen, Letterboxed, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 108 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-08-14
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Lions Gate
DVD Reviews of Beyond the Law
DVD Review: Entertaining Movie, But Very Little Truth
Summary: 3 Stars
Entertaining biker movie with some fine acting from Sheen, Madsen, Vance and co. Fiorentino looks great. Lots of action and a plausible script. For that, you could add a star. I enjoyed this enough when I first saw it to search out the source for the story. After all, the narrater tells you at the end of the movie that the story you've just seen is true, and even tells you what happened to the major characters. For that blatant lying, you can knock off 2 stars.
This film is "inspired" by the actions of one Anthony Tait (for the full story, get the book Hell's Angels Into The Abyss by Yves Lavigne). He was not an abused child as was Sheen's character Daniel Saxon. He was not a cop, though he always wanted to be one, (like Virgil, portrayed by Leon Rippy). Tait was an Alaskan (not Arizona) biker who liked to play cop and snitch to the local police. He belonged to a biker club called the Brothers which was absorbed by the Hell's Angels on Dec. 18, 1982. This gave the cops a snitch inside the Angels. Tait was a likable guy and quickly made friends and before long associated with top Angels like Sonny Barger. The Feds jumped on the opportunity of having a man inside the Hell's Angels. Tait got various bikers to sell him weapons and drugs. They got busted and served various amounts of jail time. No murdered girls in armed robberies, no beating up fellow cops, and while there was a reporter, there was no romance and the real person was nothing like the one portrayed by Fiorentino.
There you have it. Take this movie as fictional entertainment. Do not buy into the true story tripe. Makes you wonder how much is really true in all those other movies claiming to be based on true stories, events, people etc. Doesn't it?
Description of Beyond the Law
Charlie Sheen is a fearless cop, who goes undercover in order to infiltrate a notorious motorcycle gang, in this film based on a true story. He soon finds a new outlaw persona taking hold of him and risks destroying himself by getting too close to the evil he has sworn to fight.Bestsellers in DVD
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