best movie i've ever seen.

An Exercise In Nonsense

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Extreme Prejudice (1987) *** (out of 4)As children, Jack benteen and Cash Bailey were the best of friends. As adults, Jack (Nick Nolte) is a Texas Ranger and Cash (Powers Boothe) has turned into one of the biggest drug pushers in Mexico. The two of them are about to face off over their morals as well as the woman they both love.Walter Hill's EXTREME PREJUDICE has one of the most familiar and predictable plots out there. It's somewhat surprising that this film basically contains every stereotype that you'd expect in an action movie like this yet it remains extremely entertaining throughout thanks to a terrific cast as well as a director with an eye for violence. I think the best thing this film has going for it are the performances by the entire cast. Both Nolte and Boothe are extremely effective in their roles and they really do make you feel as if they were once friends but now are battling on opposite sides of the law. The two really set off explosions when they're acting together. The cast also includes strong character actors like Michael Ironside, Rip Torn, Clancy Brown, William Forsythe, Matt Mulhern and quick roles for Mickey Jones and Lin Shaye. The cast certainly keeps the routine screenplay going but so does Hill's eye for action and violence. This is a pretty darn bloody movie with all sorts of gunshot wounds and slow motion scenes of blood flowing. If you're easily offended by violence and action then it's doubtful you're much of a fan of Hill but the director adds some great touches to the picture and especially during these action scenes. The finale is all out gun massacre and it's extremely effective and entertaining.As I said, EXTREME PREJUDICE isn't the most original movie ever made and it follows all the plot twists that you'd expect but if you're a fan of the director then it's certainly worth watching.

Larry McRose (Clancy Brown), Buckman Atwater (William Forsythe), Declan Patrick Coker (Matt Mulhern), Charles Biddle (Larry B. Scott), Luther Fry (Dan Tullis, Jr.), and Major Paul Hackett (Michael Ironside) are officially dead soldiers. They are a part of the secret black ops Zombie Unit led by Hackett. Jack Benteen (Nick Nolte) is a no non-sense Texas Ranger and his school friend Cash Bailey (Powers Boothe) has become a drug lord on the other side of the border. Sarita Cisneros (María Conchita Alonso) is Benteen's latina singer girlfriend. Sheriff Hank Pearson (Rip Torn) is the local cop. Bailey offers Benteen a bribe and Benteen counter-offers for him to walk away from his drug empire.Director Walter Hill delivers an unabashed hard action B-movie. It's a throwback. Everybody is doing their hard-edged characters. Forsythe has a bit of fun. I like the murky nature of the Zombie Unit. It's a good B-movie delivering an implausible story and good action.

This film is director Walter Hill's carefully crafted tribute to Sam Peckinpah's "The Wild Bunch." The plot line is different, but the underlying theme of men who are anchored to the past and who have outlived their time on earth runs through the film and permeates every (male) character, albeit heavy-handedly at times (hence, my dinging the film down to a 9-star rating). If you like kicking back to a solid testosterone-charged action flick, you'll love this movie. If you are a student of the history and evolution of the collapse of the Hollywood studio system and the rise of independent film-making, and if you also appreciate the genius that Peckinpah demonstrated in many of his later films, I guarantee that you will find this movie to be wonderfully engaging on many levels and well worth a second viewing. With the possible exception of "Hard Times," I think that this is Walter Hill's best work to date.

Never One to let Nuance Intrude on His Action Movies, Director Walter Hill is in Complete Macho-Mode in this High-Energy Modern Day Western. An Underrated Director even His Lesser Movies are Almost Always Better than Average and Some of the Better Ones Attain Near Greatness, and a Few are Just That. GreatThere is a Look to this Movie that while Watching, it Seems that the Film just might Ignite from the Heat. It is Sun and Sweat Drenched and has the Feel of a Sauna with a Glass Ceiling. Nick Nolte Leads a Wild Bunch of Over the Top Actors and it all Plays Out in a Fun, Bullet-Ridden Movie Massacre that Folds Genres on Top of Each Other.This is not one the Director's Best Movies but it Sure is an Entertaining Romp, Heavy on Pithy, Pitiless Dialog and Destruction. An Underrated Film that will not Disappoint Fans of this Type and it is an All Out, Extreme Take on the Well Traveled Story of Opposite Law Friends and goes Over the Edge with its Rooster Strutting, Posturing and Pulverizing Violence.