Extreme Prejudice

Rating:
Summary: How Long Must We Wait??!!
Review: Plenty of other reviews here give a synopsis of this story so I'll skip that part, and get to the "Oh how I love this movie" part.
I first saw this Walter Hill movie around '88, and only on VHS, and it has always been on my top 10 list. Back in the day's before Robert Rodriquez,and Q.T. And when those of us on the east coast had no access to Hong Kong Cinema, Walter Hill was a name action fans looked for, along with the better known names of stylized action, Sergio Leone, Sam Peckenpaugh,Richard Donner, and John McTiernen. All of these directors delivered lots of entertaining action,but for my money in the 80s Hill delivered big time with this modern day western.
Performances are strong and memorable. What scenery isnt destroyed by gun fire is chewed to pieces. Rip Torn, and Powers Booth create characters that are especially fun. Nick Nolte does a great job of playing a Texas Ranger, in a mythological kinda way.
The direction is sharp despite some minor plot holes, but of course the action sequences are steller.
Big question now is "How long must we wait for a good DVD version of this film?" Widescreen is a must.

Rating:
Summary: How Long Must We Wait??!!
Review: Plenty of other reviews here give a synopsis of this story so I'll skip that part, and get to the "Oh how I love this movie" part.
I first saw this Walter Hill movie around '88, and only on VHS, and it has always been on my top 10 list. Back in the day's before Robert Rodriquez,and Q.T. And when those of us on the east coast had no access to Hong Kong Cinema, Walter Hill was a name action fans looked for, along with the better known names of stylized action, Sergio Leone, Sam Peckenpaugh,Richard Donner, and John McTiernen. All of these directors delivered lots of entertaining action,but for my money in the 80s Hill delivered big time with this modern day western.
Performances are strong and memorable. What scenery isnt destroyed by gun fire is chewed to pieces. Rip Torn, and Powers Booth create characters that are especially fun. Nick Nolte does a great job of playing a Texas Ranger, in a mythological kinda way.
The direction is sharp despite some minor plot holes, but of course the action sequences are steller.
Big question now is "How long must we wait for a good DVD version of this film?" Widescreen is a must.

Rating:
Summary: How Long Must We Wait??!!
Review: Plenty of other reviews here give a synopsis of this story so I'll skip that part, and get to the "Oh how I love this movie" part.
I first saw this Walter Hill movie around '88, and only on VHS, and it has always been on my top 10 list. Back in the day's before Robert Rodriquez,and Q.T. And when those of us on the east coast had no access to Hong Kong Cinema, Walter Hill was a name action fans looked for, along with the better known names of stylized action, Sergio Leone, Sam Peckenpaugh,Richard Donner, and John McTiernen. All of these directors delivered lots of entertaining action,but for my money in the 80s Hill delivered big time with this modern day western.
Performances are strong and memorable. What scenery isnt destroyed by gun fire is chewed to pieces. Rip Torn, and Powers Booth create characters that are especially fun. Nick Nolte does a great job of playing a Texas Ranger, in a mythological kinda way.
The direction is sharp despite some minor plot holes, but of course the action sequences are steller.
Big question now is "How long must we wait for a good DVD version of this film?" Widescreen is a must.

Rating:
Summary: Great Movie From the Director of Good Bad Films
Review: Sure, the script may not be the smartest thing to come out of Hollywood, but it is just a good old extremly bloody fun movie. What amazed me about this film is that the main stars really give their characters a sense of believablity, very uncommon in movies of this kind.

Rating:
Summary: Good Movie / Lousy Tape
Review: The movie's fine. Good acting. Good story. Too bad, then, the tape itself [stinks], and that's simply because it was recorded at "Agonizingly Excrutiatingly Super Slow Save Money on Tape" speed. I have many other low-priced tapes that are clear and sharp because the outfit producing them recorded them at SP. This particular tape was produced by "AVID Home Entertainment." I lasted about 45 minutes before saying to hell with it. During that 45 minutes I was constantly adjusting tracking. Go DVD unless you can find the film on VHS by someone other than this "AVID Home Entertainment" bunch.

Rating:
Summary: Good Movie / Lousy Tape
Review: The movie's fine. Good acting. Good story. Too bad, then, the tape itself [stinks], and that's simply because it was recorded at "Agonizingly Excrutiatingly Super Slow Save Money on Tape" speed. I have many other low-priced tapes that are clear and sharp because the outfit producing them recorded them at SP. This particular tape was produced by "AVID Home Entertainment." I lasted about 45 minutes before saying to hell with it. During that 45 minutes I was constantly adjusting tracking. Go DVD unless you can find the film on VHS by someone other than this "AVID Home Entertainment" bunch.

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Summary: Full Screen Fiasco
Review: This flick is a fun outing and like many of Hill's better movies, full of scowling good guys and bad guys alike. I agree with the reviewer who said "Not high art but good craft." That pretty much sums up this director's output to date. My 2 stars is because Artisan Home Entertainment released a horrible Full Screen only DVD, which as far as I'm concerned defeats the whole purpose of having a home theater. Especially when you're talking about a pure peice of eye candy like this. PLEASE BE WARNED......

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Summary: Don't you people get it.?
Review: This is a good movie, no doubt about it, is not a great movie but you can seat back, relax and enjoy walter hill's ( not at his best...i rather go with Southern Confort) great action secuences. Nick Nolte character is real wick and Maria conchita Alonso it's horrible and the "no storyline" about some double crossed ex -friends is really dumb!. The dvd its a dissapointment ...pure full screen trash, the tranfer is bad and it doesn't have any extras.....my greatest complain about this movie is that it is a really bad imitation of a great western classic.....THE WILD BUNCH. it just to get near it. the plot is very likely but does not get there...good gunfights but not as incredible as SAM PEKINPAH'S MASTERPIECE. The shootout at the final moments of the film save the day but never matches the autenticity, greatness and cinematografic beauty of the WILD BUNCH'S cold blooded 6 minutes long violent mayhem. IF you really like this film, i recomend you take a look at THE WILD BUNCH and you will start havind second opinions about EXTREME PREJUDICE. two stars for the film none for the dvd.

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Summary: EXTREME NOLTE
Review: THIS IS ONE OF THE FEW 'NOLTE' FLICKS I CAN RECOMMEND. HE IS A GOOD ENOUGH ACTOR, BUT HE USUALLY PLAYS MENTALLY UNSTRUNG DRUNKS.
BUT IN THIS ONE WHICH IS STRICTLY ACTION FARE, HE PLAYS STRAIGHT AS AN OLD SCHOOL RANGER COMMITTED TO HIS CODE.
NOT FACT, BUT A LONG WAY FROM PURE FICTION LIKE T.V.S 'WALKER'
NOLTE IS JACK BENTEEN PITTED AGAINST HIS ONE TIME BUDDY CASH BAILEY (POWERS BOOTH) THE ACROSS THE RIVER DRUG LORD WHO IS POLLUTING THE RANGERS JURISDICTION WITH DRUGS AND KILLING FOLKS IN THE PROCESS.
BENTEEN GIVES HIS OLD COMPADRE 'HEADS UP' BUT THE GOON IS "IN TOO DEEP."
SOME FREE LANCE MILITARY SPOOKS GET IN THE THICK OF THINGS AND THE ACTION HEATS UP.
THERE ARE SOME VERY PECKINPAH TYPE BALLETIC SHOOTOUTS AND THE SCORE IS PACED RIGHT.
NOLTES FLAME, MARIA CONCHITA ALONSO IS PERPLEXED BY WHICH MAN SHE WANTS AND CHOOSES CASH SEEMINGLY IN AN EFFORT TO MAKE THE LAWMAN JEALOUS. THE PLAN WORKS AND THE RANGER CROSSES THE BORDER TO RECLAIM THE GIRL AND FINISH OFF HIS ONE TIME BUDDY TURNED BAD. LET THE SHOWDOWN BEGIN!
REAL LIFE RETIRED RANGER JAQUIN JACKSON WAS THE TECH ADVISOR ON THIS FLICK AND HIS REAL LIFE PERSONA WAS THE INSPIRATION
FOR NOLTES CHARACTER, RIGHT DOWN TO THE COLT COMBAT COMMANDER 1911 COCKED AND LOCKED WITH STAGHORN GRIPS.
THERE IS NOTHING DEEP ABOUT THIS FILM BUT IT WORKS WELL ON A BASIC LEVEL.
RIP TORNS COUNTY SHERIFF STEALS THE SHOW IN THIS ONE.
IT IS BASICLY A CONTEMPORARY SET WESTERN.
AS USUAL THE PROFANITY IS EXCESSIVE BUT OTHER THAN THAT ITS A PRETTY DECENT SHOW.

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Summary: I Know, Let's Try Peckinpah !
Review: When it comes to steely eyed stares, Clint Eastwood has nothing on Nick Nolte. Except Nolte is a fine actor whose talents are largely wasted in this tiresomely Johnny-one-note performance. Powers Boothe whose on-screen charisma is a match for Nolte's, expresses a broader range as the villian, but apparently never got the big break his talent deserves. Too bad. The movie itself goes downhill after a promising beginning. Director Walter Hill is simply unable to weave the subplots of a murky script by that avatar of violence for its own sake - John Milius - into anything like an engaging whole. The result is a fatal crash dive into gruesomely nonsensical parody of The Wild Bunch. The upshot provides a lesson for those who have the blood lust of a Peckinpah, without his cinematic stylishness or moral sensibility. In fact, the film probably works better as parody, particularly Nolte's cartoonish Texas Ranger. A waste of fine talent on third-rate bravado. Save your money.