Great modern western, with an awesome cast, and some good acting. I especially liked Cash Bailey, played by Powers Boothe. He was great as the good ol' boy gone bad. If you like an entertaining movie, with lots of violence and colorful characters, check this one out. All I can say is that Peckinpah would've been proud.
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Yeah, I agree.
I also watch this flick about a couple of times a year and always get a kick out of it. I've always thought this was Nick Nolte's best performance.
Just finished watching it and found it fantastic! Films like these are celluloid ghosts, not big enough to be seen as mainastream or classics but damn fine nonetheless.
shareFor me personally this is the greatest action movie ever made. It has everything. Peckinpah inspired ending, for sure.
shareCertainly one of the best movies ever made, belonging in the Top 100 easily.
Walter Hill directed this film and was an understudy of Peckinpah's.
I have come to chew bubblegum and kick asss...and I'm all out of bubblegum.
Every time I watch it I notice more and more humor in Powers Booth's performance.
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Rented it this weekend as a flashback to Jr. high, as I used to watch this just about everytime it was on cable back in the 80's. Pretty good flick.
shareI've already got this on DVD and thankfully, it's the pure uncut version. When I had this on video back in 2000, they edited the final gun battle.
shareHad such potential man, Peckinpah inspired madness with Walter Hill who directed a handful of great action filcks with one of the manliest casts ever. POWERS BOOTHE and MICHAEL IRONSIDE! The names alone are manly!
A ho-hum experience for the most part. Shame.
My thoughts exactly. I was extremely disappointed with this. Long Riders is basically a much better version of this and a much better ode to Peckinpah and The Wild Bunch.
shareYeah. The usually reliable director (especially during his purple patch) falls flat here. The script is dull, Nolte is dull and there's no real tension to any of it.
Never tell me the odds.
Did the original version of the final shootout show all the squibs going off on Boothe? I seem to remember it that way but my dvd only shows the first squib, then focuses on Nolte's pistol.
shareThe movie simply rocks.
shareGotta jump on this, saw it on VHS in 88, never released on the big screen in my area. Love this flick. I own most of Walter Hills films and im still waiting for a decent DVD version this one. Whats taking so long???
shareI just got the R1 dvd of this in the mail and the dvd SUCSK! Awful quality, stupid fullscreen, and one of the worst dvd menus I've seen in ages. They could at least just remaster the damn thing in a dvd re-release.
If your enemy refuses to be humbled....DESTROY HIM!
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eight_trigrams, I say the same exact thing to my brothers and they think I'm a damn idiot because I rate Extreme Prejudice higher than Chuck Norris's movies (except Lone Wolf McQuade). EP is one of my all-time favorite movies simply because it's Walter Hill doing an epic, stylish, ultra-violent western. WHAT'S NOT TO LOVE ABOUT THIS MOVIE?!
If your enemy refuses to be humbled....DESTROY HIM!
Great flick, and I'm lucky to say I'm in it. I got to hang out with Michael Ironside and Clancy Brown on the last day of shooting at the El Paso airport. Someone you NEVER saw in the film was Andy Robinson. We shot several scenes with Robinson, who hands misson orders to Ironside and Brown (I believe the storyline was later changed where Ironside doctors up the phony mission, and Robinson's part was cut out). I was really impressed that the great Walter Hill directed the second unit stuff I was in. Very dedicated. Ironside and Brown spent most of the day inviting women to the wrap party that evening.
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And I just want to echo pretty much what everyone else has said here - this is easily one of the most underrated and badass action flicks of the 80's. This is one of those movies I can watch over and over again and never grow tired of. Great action sequences; great cast of characters with some very memorable & quotable dialouge. Hill's direction & Goldsmith's score are also top notch. I can't praise this movie enough.
bringing up an old thread :) gotta say this is a hidden gem from the 80s. I originally saw it way back then, and cant believe its still a pretty unknown flick, for the most part. I'm happy i finally acquired the DVD recently.
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