***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!
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!