The director, Andrew Davis, has come up through a series of superior action films. His gift was apparent in one of his earlier features, the Chuck Norris thriller Code of Silence, which remains Norris’s best film and one of the best, most atmospheric uses of Chicago locations ever achieved. Davis’s good films continued with the Steven Seagal thriller Above the Law, The Package with Gene Hackman, and 1992’s superb Under Siege.
