MoPoshy Absolutely brilliant

Hadrina The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Marva It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

blackmamba99971 A story about one of the most controversial units ever devised. The S.I.S. A rogue unit made to take out the criminal element with extreme swift justice. For many who delve into the legal system it shows just how far policemen will go to either take in their targets, or just riddle them full of bullets as the only answer to diffuse a dangerous situation. Criminals do not have honour in any sense of the word namely for the wild west theory. It's better to go out in a blaze of glory than be stuck in a prison where they get three meals, and a TV, or some chocolate tubing by a cell mate. Lou Diamond Philips plays his role as a lone wolf cop who understands the right, and wrong of what his partner (Scott Glenn) is doing but is placed between a rock, and a hard place simply for the fact that the criminals need to be put down.Yet the price is way too high. Watching a crime taking place then giving a one warning, which leads to a shootout is why Powers (Philips) is so devastated by his crew. To see once good cops becoming the very same element in the name of justice creates a rift between he, and his team, which ultimately leads toward a showdown. Many who watched this movie often remarked at just how efficient it is to just negate the criminal altogether since it was their choice to begin with. Like the old west, where justice came in the form of a gun and resolve to use it in the face of tyrannical regimes on the streets. Agreeably I can say that many criminals do need a bullet, but more than likely there will always be innocents in the middle ground.This was a very good film for its gritty portrayal of cops who underneath only wants peace in their city. Except to attain it they for went their humanity in order to achieve such a notion. The S.I.S. was at a time a very influential division until many of the stories that abounded from eye witnesses caused a huge upheaval in the L.A. police department. Scores of testimonies led to arrests, and sentences against those in power as well as the many police officers who got involved in such a covert squad. The shoot outs were intense, as well as the violent outcomes of each engagement. Great casting, and wonderful blue collar script that the audience could relate to for the working classes.In many ways... crime has become a sustainable asset for those in high offices but also in key government positions. Drugs, weapons, human trafficking, and black ops are what is the norm now a days. The only thing missing are the rogue squads that had no compunction of shooting a criminal to death in order to save the tax payers monetary issues or pressures. It costs over fifty thousand dollars an inmate today to keep them inside living comfortably around those who have a better way to pull of a criminal act. It is a learning institute in itself for those who are about to be released from prison. Once out... they still have the choice of moving on, or keep going as before but with new insight from his former inmates. Perhaps today's criminal needs a new squad. And if by chance witnesses are there to see it, will hopefully evacuate the area before shooting begins. The final thing any criminal, and policeman should have is a tumbleweed rolling across the asphalt.

kapelusznik18 ***SPOILERS*** It's when overly aggressive and hot headed cop Jeff Powers, Lou Diamond Phillips, is assigned top the exclusive SIS unite of the L.A police Department that he comes top realize that his brutal tactics were humanitarian actions compared to that outfit. The SIS, that sounds a lot like the mid-east terrorist organization ISIS, is involved in letting criminals commit the most horrendous crimes like murder & rape so that they can first get the goods on them and then blow them away without trial!It's Powers' partner and head of SIS Dan Vaughn, Scott Glenn,who orchestrates and sets up the targeted by letting them get away with literally bloody murder just so he can gun them down and keep them off the city streets, in their graves not prison cells, forever with no regards to their victims lives. How Vaughn & his boys get away with all this is by the internal affairs of the police department looking the other way by not doing anything to stop them. It's Powers who gets religious when his girlfriend L.A Chronicle reporter Kelly Daniels, Chelsea Fields, writes an expose on the death squad unit that if fact exposed him as one of its members!***SPOILERS*** Powers soon learns that he's on SIS's hit-list and the only way to save his as well as Kelly's behind is to come clean and expose SIS to the public, the cops were no help, before it can do any more damage! To him Kelly as well as the citizens of the city. With everything now out in the wash, in SIS being exposed by the L.A Chronicle, Powers comes to see the discredited but still on the L.A police force Dan Vaughn to tell him what he thinks of him and his gestapo like police organization. The ending isn't pretty with the usual cool as a cucumber Vaughn losing it and going completely insane in trying to murder the man , Jeff Powers, who fingered him. were told at the end of the movie that Vaughn ended up shot to death in one of his set-up raids that went terribly wrong for him. As for Powers he resigned from the LAPD and is now the head of internal affairs at the city of Detroit Police Department.

bkoganbing Unlike what one reviewer said this is NOT a ripoff of Magnum Force. In that one Lieutenant Hal Holbrook put together his own little squad from Academy rookies to dispatch repeat offenders. In Extreme Justice this operation has the sanction from the higher ups of the LAPD. Just how far they sanction the exact methods used is open to question. This Special Investigations Squad seems to be quite the haven for the misfits of the LAPD, those that have forgotten their first duty is protection and service. Which is why Scott Glenn thinks Lou Diamond Phillips, a detective with more than his share of beefs with Internal Affairs for excessive use of force, is perfect for the squad.What should have sent him running from Phillips is the fact he's got a nice live-in relationship with a reporter, Chelsea Field. That one certainly threw me in this film, you'd think that Lou would be the last guy he'd try to recruit for his team.And what his team is, is a death squad. They target perpetrators follow them and wait to catch them in the act. Then it's open season.Extreme Justice went very overboard in trying to make a point. There sure would have been no harm in waiting for a gang of bank robbers to finish the robbery and taking them down outside. No civilians got hurt when the citizens of Coffeyville did that to the Daltons. Or waiting until three rapists finish the job before moving in. That's what were asked to believe here.And frankly I couldn't buy it. A lot of good players get really wasted in this one.

disdressed12 (the following review/comment is my own personal opinion)i found this movie entertaining.it is pretty fast paced and never really lets up.it's basically about an elite group of cops whose sole purpose is to tail the bad guys and learn their routine.then the nab them in the act.this sometimes results in people being victimized so they can have an air tight case against the bad guys.but the squad becomes more of a vigilante group,taking on the role of judge,jury and executioner.the movie is apparently based on a real squad that still exists today.but the events and the characters in the movie are fictional.there is fair amount of violence in this movie and a some pretty crude language.it's a pretty standard paint by numbers action/crime drama,but i think the acting performances elevated it quite a bit.Lou Diamond Phillips and Scott Glenn are the two main actors,but there are some great supporting performances.for me,Extreme Justice is a 7/10.