Above & Beyond (2001)

One of my all time favorites.

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

This movie was actually a lot better than I thought it would be. The cast is excellent in this film. This film is very emotional. While I didn't necessarily like the way things may have turned out in the film in terms of the ending, it definitely left food for thought. There was an excellent use of foreshadowing in the writing, and all in all it really exposed a decent part of the human condition. My favorite actor, Costas Mandylor did an amazing job of playing a paralyzed cop and I believe this film showcased his versatile acting skills. I also liked his character as a whole because ultimately the character had a great sense of integrity and throughout the film the character also had genuine humanity. The rest of the actors as a whole also did an excellent job so I give props to the actors, the director, and the casting director on that one. Once again this film is very emotional, and I would even say it sent me on an emotional roller coaster. There were times of happiness in the film, as well as wonderment, drama, sadness, anger, and laughter. A really decent film for a TV movie, and one I would enjoy watching again.

***SPOILERS*** I at first thought that the movie "Above & Beyond" was a re-make of the Robert Taylor 1952 film about the bombing of Hiroshima but soon realized that it was about a whole different subject! The film has to do with this faith healer furniture store owner Joe Farelli, Robert Costanzo, who discovered , probably from the 1986 "New Twilght Zone" episode he was in, that faith is stronger then the scalpel or even a stay at the local hospital emergency ward.We get to see Joe in action as he cures policeman and part-time hokey player Peter Clerkin, Adam Baldwin,from a serious injury he got on the hockey court. This is very impressive indeed in Peter recovering a full two week before his doctors said he would. It's later when Peter and his partner Michael Amorosa, Costas Mandylor, try to stop a distraught man from murdering his cheating wife and her lover, whom he caught in the act, that he accidentally shoots Michael when the bullet that it was intended for, the outraged husband, passed through his body killing him and hitting Michael in the spine! Things start to get very complicated with Michael's wife Jill, Alexandera Paul, rushing to he hospital and not only finding out that he husband Michael will be crippled for life but that his partner Peter, who just happened to be her former lover, put him in that condition!We get to see Joe show up at the hospital and do his thing on the barley conscious and heavily medicated Michael that at first seemed to help him recover. But as time went by Michael's recovery and Joe, who soon disappeared from the movie altogether, went by the boards with him now becoming an angry and bitter young man in him not being able to be a man or husband to his loving and caring wife Jill.From that point on the movie goes nowhere fast in it just about running out of gas or story and just coast or limp along to it's final and very unsatisfying, to everyone watching, conclusion. Peter is made to be the heel in the film by him getting it on with his best friends and police partner's wife Jill throughout the remainder of the film. That while Michael was laid up in bed not being even able to go to the bathroom without someone assisting him. ***SPOILERS*** It's just when your about to switch the movie off that we get to see Michael recover from his injury and get on his feet again but were not quite sure if it's real or a drug or medicated induced hallucination on Michael's part. Michael for his part accepted his fate in being a paraplegic and not being able to be a husband to his wife Jill anymore. He even goes so far as encouraging Jill to drop him and marry Peter who's been having an affair with Jill behind Michael's back anyway. The movies final ending is a bit too much to take in that it doesn't really tell you what happened between Michael Jill & Peter in it by it seeming to have two different alternative endings. But by then your so bored by it all that you couldn't really care which way it ended anyway!

A movie about a married couple and their best friend.Michael (Costas Mandylor) and Peter (Adam Baldwin) are cops. In a take-down, Peter accidentally shoots Michael and he may never walk again. Rumors fly—was it an accident? Did Peter do it to get Jill (whom he is secretly in love with)? Michael struggles with his own emotions but in the process, he shuts Jill (Alexandra Paul) out. Then he comes to terms with the situation, and gives Peter and Jill his blessing.Slow at times, but overall a good movie. Shows a lot of human emotions that sometimes conflict with each other. Make sure you have a box of Kleenex handy.

hi, Will someone please explain to me what happened at the end of the movie? I heard gunshots and then saw the husband walk and then there was the best friend with the wife!!!!!!!!!! Did I miss something? Thanks so much for not LOL (if you aren't) This is my first time that I used this website, and it seems like all the information that I would need to get "inside" the movie is all right in front of me and I will indeed lead my "movie buff" friends to your website so they can find out on their own what a informative and exciting and fresh website that I did not know was available until today. Who would ever think that with a click on my computer that I could go all the back in time to get the information about a movie that no one knew was even made. Thank you very much for taking the time for all us movie lovers whether old or new. It really is a treat. Fran