Cebalord Very best movie i ever watch

Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Freeman This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Zandra The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

smatysia An OK action/modern Western movie. Nick Nolte was wasted in this role. His character was humorless, stern, and utterly one-dimensional. Rip Torn was at his best in his role, and Powers Boothe plays his usual villain. Special kudos to Maria Conchita Alonso, who looked and sounded absolutely lovely. But her character was under-utilized. The action scenes were pretty good for the time, quite Peckinpah-esque. Pretty good. not great.

Predrag This film came out during the late 80's action movie boom and was sadly lost in a sea of more populate and higher budgeted adventure flicks the year it came out. Terrific performances from Nick Nolte, the underrated Powers Boothe, Michael Ironside, and Rip Torn. Also, memorable turn-ins from Clancy Brown (best known as the Kurgen from 'Highlander'), William Forsythe and Maria C. Alonso.The film focuses on a hard as nails Texas Ranger played by Nick Nolte who is trying to keep his town from becoming overrun by a drug cartel led by his childhood friend. Things become more complicated when a team of elite black ops commandos show up to eliminate the same cartel leader. While this movie passes as a fast paced action film, it plays more like a modern day Western and is all in all a great film. There are some obligatory scenes of tough-guy stuff and nifty, well directed shoot-outs but the various plot elements never let things drag. The action moves so well you can set your watch by it. Hill knows how to set up his shots, and his editor must have had a great time pasting it all together because it moves as smooth as silk.Overall rating: 8 out of 10.

zardoz-13 "48 Hrs" director Walter Hill's modern-day, macho western "Extreme Prejudice" emerges as a bloodthirsty tribute to writer & director Sam Peckinpah. For the record, Hill adapted the Jim Thompson cult novel as a screenplay for Peckinpah's superb Texas bank robbery saga "The Getaway" (1972) co-starring Steve McQueen, Ali MacGraw, and Ben Johnson. You can spot some of the ideas that Hill appropriated from that memorable Peckinpah masterpiece and put into this uneven but above-average actioneer. The bank robbers use explosives to distract the local constabulary while they waylay the bank and they cut the local communication lines to keep the authorities from knowing about their audacious deed. Unfortunately, the problem with "Extreme Prejudice" is that Hill and his scribes struggle to streamline two movies into one. One plot concerns an "A-Team" of military soldiers deployed to perform ultra-secret missions that would otherwise embarrass the government. The second plot focuses on the relationship between the hero and the villain who were once the best of friends and are not rivals for the love of the same woman. Despite the uneven, complicated nature of this contemporary western, Hill has fashioned a good crime thriller that maintains attention throughout its 104 minutes with compelling characters, exciting shoot-outs and showdowns, and atmospheric settings."Extreme Prejudice" casts Nick Nolte as lean, mean, and incorruptible Texas Ranger Jack Benteen, while wolfish Powers Boothe is at his villainous best as Benteen's chief adversary Cash Bailey. Cash decks himself out in virtuous apparel with a white Stetson, slacks, and jacket. As it turns out, Benteen and Bailey grew up together in Texas. They played football together, dated the same girl, and smoked marijuana right under the noses of Benteen's Texas Ranger father and Benrey County Sheriff Hank Pearson. Times have changed for both men and Benteen wants Cash to stop selling dope and clear out. While these two lethal opponents circle each other warily with blood in their eyes, a squad of officially dead military soldiers under the command of Major Pat Hackett (Michael Ironside of "Starship Troopers") blow into Benrey to rob the city bank. Initially, the two plots appear to intertwine. As Hackett tells one of his men, "We're robbing the bank to cover what we're getting out of the safety deposit boxes. It's a case of national security." Hackett and his men plan to hold up the bank where Bailey stashes his money and records. These men case not only the bank, but they also case the local sheriff's office. Indeed, two of the team--Sgt. Buck Atwater (William Forsythe of "Out for Justice") and Sgt. Luther Fry (Dan Tullis Jr. of "Harlem Nights")--start a fight so authorities will arrest them for disorderly conduct and assault. Once they are confined to jail cells, they scope out the facilities.The other members of Hackett's team masquerade as Lone Star Armored Car guards so they can enter the bank armed with guns. Naturally, Hackett accompanies them. The robbers don pantie hose to blur their facial features. The flaw in their best laid plan occurs when Sergeant Declan Patrick Coker (Matt Mulhern of "Junior") and Buck wind up stuck momentarily in a gully and cannot make it back to town in time to dispose of one of Cash's henchmen. Cash's henchman Hector (Gary Carlos Cervantes of "Scarface") ambushes Sergeant Fry as he is exiting the bank lugging suitcases of loot. Hector riddles him with a submachine gun and grabs the luggage. While all this is transpiring, Coker and Buck have established a diversion with a hydrogen tanker that they obliterate with explosive charges. Careening back into town late, Coker and Buck run afoul of Benteen. Benteen learns afterward that Coker, Buck, and Fry were listed as dead by the government. When Benteen tracks down Hackett, the major explains that Cash Bailey once served as the DEA's number one, deep-cover informant. Cash has been using the bank in Benteen's own town to launder and stockpile his illicit drug money. Somehow, Hackett convinces Benteen to release Coker and Buck so they can rejoin Hackett, Sergeant Biddle, and Sergeant McRose and head south to Mexico and liquidate Bailey. Ostensibly, Benteen wants to reason with Cash, but he also wants to bring back his girlfriend, Sarita Cisneros (Maria Conchita Alonso of "Predator 2"), who had gone back to Mexico with Cash.Everybody in "Extreme Prejudice" talks tough and looks intimidating. The salty, profane dialogue that these tough guys snarl with venom at each other predated Quinton Tarantino by several years. As the Benrey County Sheriff, Rip Torn has what is possibly the best line: "Only thing worse than a politician is a child molester." The second best line belongs to William Forsythe's flinty character Buck when he flirts with a woman: "As long as I got a face, you got a place to sit!" The bullet riddled confrontation in old Mexico near the end of this R-rated shoot'em up evokes memories of Peckinpah's magnum opus "The Wild Bunch," while the corrosive friendship between the hero and the villain is reminiscent of Peckinpah's "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid." Hill and his writers slip in a few surprises along the way, particularly in the treacherous character of Major Paul Hackett. If you're looking for a blazing guns entry with virtually everybody biting the dust, then "Extreme Prejudice" is designed with you in mind. The other tale of the Texas Rangers in a contemporary setting that compared favorably with "Extreme Prejudice" came out about four years earlier was director Steve Carver's "Lone Wolf McQuade" (1983) with Chuck Norris in his best bad ass role.

stefant When i saw Extreme prejudice in Swedish cinemas in 1987 it was heavily cut, the movie had become a real mess by Swedish censors. When i bought the U.K DVD, one scene was cut (killing of a rat) after that, i found the Canal Plus version it seemed uncut, however the movie seems to be subjected to bad editing or is it cut by the MPAA? I have even tried to contact Walter Hill, asking if Carolco or MPAA have done some cut's to this movie.I did not come in contact with Walter Hill. Besides from what's been mentioned above. The movie is an absolute masterpiece, with the best action cast, ever in a movie. Nolte has never been better same applies for Michael Ironside, Powers Boothe and William Forsythe to not mention Clancy Brown. Extreme Prejudice is a must see for all who loves movies. It is the mother of all Actioners