Synopsis
A Texas Ranger and a ruthless narcotics kingpin - they were childhood friends, now they are adversaries...
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Cast
- Nick NolteJack Benteen
- Powers BootheCash Bailey
- Michael IronsideMaj. Paul Hackett
- María Conchita AlonsoSarita Cisneros
- Rip TornSheriff Hank Pearson
- Clancy BrownMSgt. Larry McRose
- William ForsytheSgt. Buck Atwater
- Matt MulhernSSgt. Declan Patrick Coker
- Larry B. ScottSgt. Charles Biddle
- Dan Tullis Jr.Sgt. Luther Fry
Recommandations
- 80
Chicago Reader
The character interactions are strong, especially for this depleted genre, and Hill's tight, efficient styling recovers a lot of lost formal ground: his framing and crosscutting are as sharp as ever, and the bloodbath finale is, improbably, a model of intelligent restraint, the classicist's answer to Peckinpah baroque. - 75
Chicago Sun-Times
Hill doesn't really try to avoid the cliches in a story like this. He simply turns up the juice. Like his "Southern Comfort," "48 Hrs.," and "The Warriors," this is a movie that depends on style, not surprises. He doesn't want to make a different kind of movie; he wants to make a familiar story look better than we've seen it look recently. And yet there is a big surprise in Extreme Prejudice in the appearance and character of Nick Nolte. - 75
TV Guide Magazine
A fierce and often compelling actor, Nick Nolte usually creates a riveting character, and when that character is coupled with a good film, the end product is something worthy of watching. Such is the case with EXTREME PREJUDICE, despite its abundance of violence. - 75
Chicago Tribune
The film leaves a sense of entrapment and despair. Its characters are caught in a shrinking world that leaves no room for notions as grand as "good" and "evil," but only a sordid, creeping malignancy that levels everything in its path. [24 Apr 1987, p.AC] - 70
Los Angeles Times
Walter Hill's Extreme Prejudice is as red-hot as a Saturday-night special, an ultra-violent action-adventure fantasy so macho that it verges on parody--on purpose. Sensational rather than serious, it is an exploitation picture but one with class: it has style, a point to make that happens to be highly topical and, thankfully, a dry, saving sense of humor. - 70
Variety
Extreme Prejudice is an amusing concoction that is frequently offbeat and at times compelling. Taut direction and editing prevail despite overstaged hyper-violence that is so gratuitous to be farcical. - 60
The New York Times
It has a bold, bright look and a crisp tempo, propelling the action from one shootout to another until it finally reaches the most violent of its crescendos. By the time it has arrived at this last stage, the film is so close to being ludicrous that it's hard to know whether it is deteriorating or ascending. - 60
Empire
There are flaws aplenty, but also some effective, old-fashioned Western style performances and a spectacularly over the top finish.
