Synopsis
An army of forgotten heroes, all officially dead. They live for combat. Now they've met the wrong man.
A Texas Ranger and a ruthless narcotics kingpin - they were childhood friends, now they are adversaries...
1987 Directed by Walter Hill
A Texas Ranger and a ruthless narcotics kingpin - they were childhood friends, now they are adversaries...
Nick Nolte Powers Boothe Michael Ironside María Conchita Alonso Rip Torn Clancy Brown William Forsythe Matt Mulhern Larry B. Scott Dan Tullis Jr. John Dennis Johnston Luis Contreras Gary Carlos Cervantes Tommy Lister Jr. Marco Rodríguez James Lashly Tony Frank Mickey Jones Kent Lipham Sam Gauny Rick Garcia Richard L. Duran Larry Duran Jimmy Ortega Ken Medlock Lin Shaye Christina Garcia
Jimmy Ortega Allan Graf Thomas Rosales Jr. George P. Wilbur Bennie E. Dobbins Jeff O'Haco Jerry Wills Marian Green David Cadiente Wayne Montanio
Fred J. Brown Robert W. Glass Jr. Richard Bryce Goodman Margie O'Malley Evelyn Dutton Gregg Landaker Jay Wilkinson Michael Minkler Teri E. Dorman Robert Nichols II Gary Ritchie Michele Sharp
Extrême Préjudice, Всі запобіжні заходи, Ausgelöscht, 反攻美国, I Rättvisans Namn, Traición sin límites, Ricercati: ufficialmente morti, Den beskidte bande, Különös kegyetlenséggel, Extrémní předsudek, Усі запобіжні заходи, Nienawiść, Крайни предразсъдъци, O Limite da Traição, Все меры предосторожности, คนกระหน่ำคน, 더블 보더, Extrémny predsudok
I believe Walter Hill's biggest strength is creating memorable characters. He's helped develop the Colonial Marines, the crew of the Nostromo, Reggie and Jack, Frank and Jesse, The Driver and The Detective and Spencer and Reece. I could go on and on. When Walter Hill is involved with a movie via director, writer or producer; the characters don't get overlooked. Extreme Prejudice is no different. It's a modern day western with a lot of Sam Peckinpah flavor. A Texas Ranger. His former best friend and now drug lord of Mexico. A woman caught between them. Plus, a special forces unit which reminds me of the A-Team. Saddle the fuck up!!
Nick Noltle vs Powers Boothe. Hold my beer, this is…
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Nick Nolte, Powers Boothe, Michael Ironside, Rip Torn, Clancy Brown, and William Forsythe in a Walter Hill-directed-neo-western packed with shootouts, poetic masculine language, and an explosive bunny-rabbit.
Five stars.
Walter Hill takes a psycho script from John Milius ("a right-wing Costa-Gavras film," his words) and ends up updating The Wild Bunch for the cocaine 80s and CIA drug wars. An all-star dirtbag cast of character actors smoking cigars, wearing cowboy hats, and chewing on dialogue so cartoonishly macho & shootouts so vicious and gruesome it could be mistaken for parody (Powers Boothe crushes a scorpion with his bare hands!) if Hill wasn't so convincing a stylist. His feel for filthy textures and an almost death-drive structural escalation are impeccable, the action cutting (owing a lot to Peckinpah) has this sense of wheels in motion that simply can't be stopped until the bloody, bullet-riddled bodies are in the dirt. It's really…
"I TOLD YOU BEFORE, AMIGO! I'M IN TOO DEEP!"
TUNE IN AND LISTEN TO ME AND THE BOYS FROM ACTION, ACTION (JAMES, DUSTIN AND JOHN) AS WE TALK ABOUT ONE OF WALTER HILL'S MOST UNDERSEEN AND UNDERRATED 80s BANGERS: EXTREME PREJUDICE!
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A Texas Ranger. A Narcotics Kingpin. Both former childhood friends and now on opposite sides of the law. Not enough of a draw for you? Okay then, let's throw in: a team of "officially dead" soldiers who are pulling off a secret mission, a woman who is torn between two men of power, one of the most stacked casts of character actors to ever grace the screen,…
Action! - The Unlikely Rumble: Hill v Hyams
In preparation for his next confrontation, Walter Hill clearly chose to study numerous Sam Peckinpah films and produce his own version of one of them, believing that we wouldn't notice, right? Wrong!
To be honest, the filmmaker did a really good job of channeling this in a way that didn't feel terribly intrusive. Hill's action sequences and gunfights are superbly directed and exquisitely brutal. Those who enjoy more violent Westerns with morally murky characters will enjoy this film. Everything with the troop of purportedly dead warriors reminded me of something out of a Chuck Norris film for Canon.
Nolte is fantastic as this type of lone ranger out to bring peace to…
Walter Hill finally made his Sam Peckinpah flick.
With “Extreme Prejudice,” Hill got to stop dancing around the idea of doing a hard boiled Western, and at last got to put pen on paper - or rather, a bullet in the six shooter.
Hill’s career is populated by entries that are Western in spirit, but not in setting. Starting from his stagecoach robbery-esque caper script for Peckinpah, “The Getaway,” up to “Streets of Fire’s” high midnight duel in the street - Hill did just about anything he could to rack up the cred for a nails-hard sweaty cowboy picture.
He finally did it, the crazy bastard. And “Extreme Prejudice” is - definitely- a bit crazy.
The film sets two former…
"Water takes the path of least resistance. So you got crooked rivers and crooked men." or "What the hell else we gonna do, partner? Shoot each other?"
a piece of pure masculinity. John Wayne rides away on his old hack, Arnie S. takes off the fig leaf covering Conan's chandeliers, Bruce W. rubs his bald head one last time: Walter Hill runs them all out of town with his b-stock men's club assembly here.
Nolte, Boothe, Ironside - big boys bringing it all to the table a proud chauvinist desires: all sort of guns from revolvers to kalashnikovs. genre crossovers between western and bank heist. humongous cars. mexican standoffs. bare latina breasts. the existential loneliness of a war veteran.
even the last type of relationship a guy has left - the childhood friendship with his bestie - will be annihilated by the materialistic goals society makes you believe are the ones worthwhile.
in all of this a last breath of the old times: the bemoaning of the end of an era. a nasty, broken, devious era. however, the only era they knew.
HOLY FUCK. How have I never seen this thing before?! You've got: Nick Nolte, Powers Boothe, Michael Ironside, Clancy Brown, William Forsythe, Rip Torn, Maria Conchita Alonso, Tommy "Tiny" Lister Jr. and Marco Rodriguez, all fucking bringing it in this flaming-hot modern western — with a fuck ton of blood squibs, a shit load of bullets and macho dick-swingin' dialogue. Walter Hill never ceases to amaze me, this is definitely in my top 5 of his films. And the finale to this thing, Jesus H. Christ, Hill goes full The Wild Bunch and totally brings on the carnage. While I do wish we got some more characterization with a lot of these characters, what we end up getting is still a bangin' good time. Check this thing out ASAP!
Thanks to Todd Gaines for the recommendation!
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My new favorite Hill movie. At the end of the year MUBI did their old/new double-feature idea again, and if I could belatedly offer my own I'd pair this with Johnnie To's DRUG WAR. Both are forward-motion action films that turn on the relationships between single-minded cops and criminals, and the breakdown of loyalty in the name of survival. So focused, both nevertheless capture in a kind of ecstatic truth the collision of bad domestic and foreign policy into one inherently volatile trade, drugs, the perpetuation and crackdown on which heightens traditional genre terms before ripping them apart. The final showdown between Powers Boothe, the devil in white, and the black-clad enforcer Nolte is an exercise in frustrated expectation, a…
Extreme Prejudice is kind of a masterpiece, huh? Certainly a contender for Walter Hill’s most testosterone-soaked, most under-appreciated, least-talked-about film. This is a squib-crazy drug-war neo-western, imbued with the tempo of Milius macho-poetry and a stony intensity courtesy of its rugged character-actor cast: Nolte, Ironside, Boothe, Clancy Brown, Rip Torn, William Forsythe, Tom Lister Jr., among others.
Walter Hill’s ode to The Wild Bunch echoes a number of works before and since its 1987 release. The oeuvres of Anthony Mann and Taylor Sheridan, the volatile frenemy core of Justified, Ronin’s criminal ex-operatives, Who’ll Stop The Rain, any number of Peckinpah films. At the same time, this is certainly the most ‘Walter Hill’ movie I’ve seen from the man, a complete…
“Only thing worse than a politician is a child molester”
Walter Hill’s dusty, politically incorrect ode to machismo is a gleeful tribute to a bygone era — one that had arguably been a decade past even in 1987; the type of film where even the good guys are bad (perhaps even more morally askew than the villains) and, at the end of the day, the only thing that really matters is staying alive which, spoiler alert, most don’t manage to do
Hill’s best on just about any day