Extreme Prejudice [Includes Digital Copy] [Blu-ray]

Overview

Modern-day Texas Ranger Jack Benteen (Nick Nolte) was once the best friend of local drug kingpin Cash Bailey (Powers Boothe). At present, however, the only element linking them together is Jack's lover Sarita (Maria Conchita Alonso), Cash's former mistress. When Sarita tires of Jack's Spartan lifestyle, she returns to Cash as a voluntary hostage to make certain that Jack keeps his hands off Cash's operation. The film comes to a head during a meticulously planned drug bust, in which both Jack and Cash butt heads with CIA-funded paramilitary Maj. Paul Hackett (Michael Ironside, who isn't all he seems to be).

Product Details

Release Date:	05/17/2022
UPC:	0031398333135
Original Release:	1987
Rating:	R
Source:	Lions Gate
Language:	English
Sales rank:	13,289

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Nick Nolte	Actor
Powers Boothe	Actor
Michael Ironside	Actor
Rip Torn	Actor
Clancy Brown	Actor
William Forsythe	Actor
Matt Mulhern	Actor
Larry B. Scott	Actor
Dan Tullis Jr.	Actor
John Dennis Johnston	Actor
Luis Contreras	Actor
Carlos Cervantes	Actor
Tiny Lister	Actor
Marco Rodriguez	Actor
James Lashly	Actor
Tony Frank	Actor
Mickey Jones	Actor
Kent Lipham	Actor
Sam Gauny	Actor
Gil Reyes	Actor
Rick Garcia	Actor,Actor
Richard Duran	Actor,Actor
Tony Lattanzi	Man In Empoyment Office
Charles Lewis	Actor
Humberto De La Torre	Actor
Fred Eisenlohr	Actor
Erin Bowden	Actor
Frank Lugo	Actor
Jimmy Ortega	Actor
Lin Shaye	Actor
Andrew Robinson	Actor
Anthony Lattanzio	Actor
Ken Medlock	Actor
Maria Conchita Alonso	Sarita Cisneros
Michelle Lynn Rosen	Actor

Technical Credits

Bennie Dobbins	Stunts
Buzz Feitshans	Producer
Thomas L. Fisher	Special Effects
Walter Hill	Director
Mario Kassar	Executive Producer,Producer
Andrew Vajna	Executive Producer

Editorial Reviews

Walter Hill's wildly over-the-top Peckinpah-flavored Western often borders on camp, but fans of the genre will enjoy the exaggerated posturing of the leads and the film's carefully stylized violence. Employing the Precambrian-era plot about former friends on different sides of the law who are in love with the same woman, Hill adds nothing new, while painting both the hero and villain as larger-than-life, primed-to-explode kegs of testosterone. For good measure, he also throws in a cadre of CIA contract mercenaries, whose indecipherable mission requires a meticulously executed bank robbery. Is this really where our tax dollars are going? Nolte, as the stalwart Texas Ranger, transforms his face into solid granite in what may be his least expressive role, while Boothe seems to revel in the hard-boiled epigrams favored by two dimensional villains. The final bloody shootout in the Mexican village, a homage which tries to out-Peckinpah Peckinpah, is skillfully executed, but its length may have some viewers checking their watch. As usual with Hill, the woman's role is negligible, leaving Maria Conchita Alonso little to do, but Rip Torn, as Nolte's Ranger buddy, is the film's most lively character, and one is sorry to see him get the deep six so early.

All Movie Guide - Michael Costello