Extreme Prejudice

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Extreme Prejudice

R,

1987,

1h 44m,

Action

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82%

11 Reviews

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59%

2,500+ Ratings

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11 Reviews

59%

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2,500+ Ratings

Jack Benteen (Nick Nolte) is a Texas Ranger who has taken a very different path than his childhood buddy, Cash Bailey (Powers Boothe), a ruthless drug lord. While Benteen and Bailey are on opposite sides of the law, they share a common interest in the lovely Sarita Cisneros (Maria Conchita Alonso), who has been involved with both men. The tension between Benteen and Bailey gets further heightened when the lawman plays a key role in a major narcotics bust, resulting in a fierce showdown.

Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

Jan 1, 2000

3/4

Walter Hill is the right director for this material. He specializes in male action movies where the characters are all a little taller, leaner, meaner and more obscene than in real life.

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Peter McPhee

Winnipeg Sun

Jun 8, 2026

Nonstop action and occasionally brilliant dialogue give the film merit.

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Richard Freedman

Newark Star-Ledger

Jan 6, 2026

Beneath its trendy veneer of covert operations, "Extreme Prejudice" is a whale of an old-fashioned Western.

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Mitchell Beaupre

Paste Magazine

Sep 29, 2023

8.5/10

While Extreme Prejudice plays the Peckinpah elements straight, Hill throws some extra flavor in with intentional slices of outlandish embellishment to reality, as well as the long-simmering rivalry between its main characters.

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Hilary Mantel

The Spectator

Apr 9, 2019

The film depends entirely on the more banal conventions of the western -- the only novelty is that the baddie wears a white hat.

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Cathy Burke

United Press International

Nov 8, 2016

Though not perfect, Extreme Prejudice provides a steely Nick Nolte as the white hat hero and for those who pine for the days when Westerns were king, the film is worth seeing.

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Anakin R

Apr 3, 2019

A bit of a Peckinpah ripoff, with the man with the silly name, Powers Boothe, playing the baddy, and Nolte as the hero, with a Mexican slapper as the love interest. Not a bad film but not great.

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Finn P

Dec 28, 2018

Just Nick Nolte's performance makes the film fun to watch, the film has a solid script and direction

Albus W

Aug 6, 2018

If you like over the top tough guys machismo in your 80's action movies then you have come to the right place. The dialogue is ridiculous and the plot a simplistic homage to The Wild Bunch. The irony is that Nolte is such a good actor that in playing it completely straight he manages to pull off the unbendable white hat wearing hard as nails lawman. By contrast Powers Boothe equally does well by going the other way almost winking at the camera as a scenery chewing child pal gone bad black hat wearing villian. The supporting cast is excellent with names like Michael Ironside, Clancy Brown, William Forsyth and Rip Torn. Maria Conchita Alonso (one of my favourite action movie hotties from the 80s) does what she can to be something more than merely Nolte's love interest and succeeds to the limited extent that Walter Hill allows her. This is after all a sexist boys own adventure were every punch is a sledgehammer and every bullet thunders like a cannon. This is top shelf leave your brain at the door Saturday afternoon with the boys beer type movie making that Hill excels at. This is a yes from me.

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Ron P

Apr 18, 2018

Lunkheaded Walter Hill/John Milius silliness with a bunch of growly overactors trying to see who can out-overact the other! Even Jerry Goldsmith is mired in his unfortunate synthesizer-score period. For a movie that is so desperate to be "tough," it's instead quite listless.

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Albus M

Sep 9, 2017

Childhood friends now at odds due to one being a Texas Ranger and the other a drug kingpin across the border in Mexico. Decent film turns into a bloodbath at the end. Not Walter Hill's best but all of his material is worth watching.

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Hagrid R

Aug 22, 2017

A fine action film from Walter Hill.

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Jack Benteen

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Cash Bailey

Michael Ironside

Maj. Paul Hackett

Maria Conchita Alonso

Sarita Cisneros

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Synopsis

Jack Benteen (Nick Nolte) is a Texas Ranger who has taken a very different path than his childhood buddy, Cash Bailey (Powers Boothe), a ruthless drug lord. While Benteen and Bailey are on opposite sides of the law, they share a common interest in the lovely Sarita Cisneros (Maria Conchita Alonso), who has been involved with both men. The tension between Benteen and Bailey gets further heightened when the lawman plays a key role in a major narcotics bust, resulting in a fierce showdown.

Director: Walter Hill
Producer: Buzz Feitshans
Screenwriter: Deric Washburn, Harry Kleiner
Rating: R
Genre: Action
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 7, 2014
Box Office (Gross USA): $9.9M
Runtime: 1h 44m
Sound Mix: Surround

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