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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
shoot em up, blow em up in texas, 4 Nov 2008
It's a case of brain in neutral and enjoy.
The underlying story (there is one, trust me) consists of Michael Ironside (perpetual baddy) and his team of elite soldiers (including Clancy Brown - the baddy from Highlander) go to a small town in Texas to rob a bank under military orders. The towns local ranger (Nolte) is currently having with an ex-friend and now drug dealer. These two things are interlinked. But who are the good guys and who are the bad guys.
It all ends in a small village over the mexican border.
If you like blow em up, shoot em ups this is for you.
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4 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Above average modern western, 2 Dec 2000
By A Customer
Set along the Texas-Mexico border, this is a modern day western blending high tech marines and old style Texas Rangers against local drug baron (Powers Booth). Excellent supporting performances, particularly by Michael Ironside make this good fun, despite the occasionally wooden performance of Nick Nolte. Overall this works surprisingly well.
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0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Not Walter Hill's best, 23 Dec 2008
Sorry, this movie probably deserves 4 stars. Anyhoo, Nick Nolte must have ground his molars down to a fine powder in this movie, a high-octane action flick from veteran action director Walter Hill. Nolte plays a modern day Texas Ranger in a small Texas town on the Mexican border who spends a good deal of time running down (and gunning, of course,) `raggedly-blank dirt farmers' who smuggle drugs over the border to make ends meet. Nolte plays it clenched of jaw and short of patience in a monochromatic tooth-grinding manner - when he isn't angry, well... he's angrier. A `stone-age cowboy,' someone in the movie calls him, a buckaroo who natcherally wants to go after the big fish, drug kingpin Powers Booth. Trouble is Booth is south of the border and out of his jurisdiction - not to mention he's a childhood friend of Nolte's, and an old squeeze of Nolte's live-in girlfriend Maria Conchita Alonso.
The presence of a woman with billing so near the title and situated so vital to the plot - side three of one of those love triangles - is always worrisome in movies with big guns and fast cars. Nothing takes the air out of an action flick quicker, or more completely, than a loving woman and a caring man. As if to reassure us, the movie has Nolte and Alonso get into a `where's our relationship going?' conversation. Maria Conchita is thinking of going back to the bad guy and wants to talk about it with Nolte. Their conversation ends with Nolte uttering the best line in the movie before walking out - "I can't talk. I got to do." And do he does. Either complicating or adding texture to the plot is the presence of a group of CIA-sponsored paramilitary types in the background, black helicopter types who drive around in a converted A-team van and divert us from growing restless waiting for the inevitable Nolte-Booth showdown. Even the ever-reliable Rip Torn is around, for a while, as a local sheriff. Around to ride shotgun for Nolte, weave homespun observations, and mainly wear out his vocal cords handling three characters-worth of exposition - "You know Sarita used to go with Cash when you were out east..." It's a thankless job, but Torn pulls it off without missing a beat.
There's a handsome, gritty, dust blowing, oily sweat feel to EXTREME PREJUDICE. Powers Booth, who more or less owns the last third of the movie, adds a healthy dose of menace when Nolte finally chases down south of the border. In the good action flicks, and EXTREME PREJUDICE is one, the good guy usually has to bring out the heavy lumber to stay even with the bad guy. Bad guys can do cool things, like squash scorpions in their bare hands. The best a good guy can do is bark at a fumbling deputy to get those prints to the FBI right away. To his credit, Nolte keeps pace, and if we don't get too emotionally involved with any of the characters, or leave this one with any meaningful lessons learned, their final confrontation is satisfyingly intense. A very good movie.
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