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| Finnkino | Release Date: April 24, 1987 |
Starring:
Clancy Brown, Dan Tullis Jr., Larry B. Scott, Maria Conchita Alonso, Matt Mulhern, Michael Ironside, Nick Nolte, Powers Boothe, Rip Torn, William Forsythe
Summary:
A Texas Ranger (Nick Nolte) and a ruthless narcotics kingpin - they were childhood friends, now they are adversaries...
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The character interactions are strong, especially for this depleted genre, and Hill's tight, efficient styling recovers a lot of lost formal ground: his framing and crosscutting are as sharp as ever, and the bloodbath finale is, improbably, a model of intelligent restraint, the classicist's answer to Peckinpah baroque.
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Walter Hill's Extreme Prejudice is as red-hot as a Saturday-night special, an ultra-violent action-adventure fantasy so macho that it verges on parody--on purpose. Sensational rather than serious, it is an exploitation picture but one with class: it has style, a point to make that happens to be highly topical and, thankfully, a dry, saving sense of humor.
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This is the kind of pitchur where if somebody gets
his foot blowed off (somebody do), it makes everybody laugh, yuk yuk. Rip
Torn (he's a sheriff) says, "The only thing worse than a politician is a
child molester." It's mighty fine to get that kind of perspective. Makes
you realize Extreme Prejudice ain't so bad after all. [24 Apr 1987]
The result is a dusty-dopey Tex-wreck, a feeble excuse for a string of computer-programmed explosions and slow-motion death ballets. In director Walter Hill's shaky hands, even the blow-ups are boring. [24 Apr 1987]
Extreme Prejudice is an exceptionally bad movie, despite a powerful introduction in the tradition of Hill's bloodiest ventures, Southern Comfort, The Long Riders and 48 HRS. [24 Apr 1987, p.1D]
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