Extreme Prejudice

Extreme Prejudice (1987)

  • 71% of critics liked it
    (7 reviews)

  • 48% of users liked it
    (2,743 ratings)

Modern-day Texas Ranger Jack Benteen (Nick Nolte) was once the best friend of local drug kingpin Cash Bailey (Powers Boothe). At present, however, the only element linking them together is Jack's lover Sarita (Maria Conchita Alonso), Cash's former mistress. When Sarita tires of Jack's… More

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R,
Directed By
Written By
John Milius, Fred Rexer
Genres
Drama, Action & Adventure
In Theaters
Apr 24, 1987 Limited
TriStar Pictures

Critic Reviews

  • Chuck O'Leary, Fantastica Daily

    Vintage Walter Hill. Mean and tough with vivid characterizations, intense confrontations and hard-edged action galore.

  • Scott Weinberg, eFilmCritic.com

    The gritty and grim Walter Hill doin' his thing.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Phil H


    Terrific dated action feast from Walter Hill that clearly shows early ideas for his other action feasts and also kinda reminded me of an early 'Expendables' type film. The cast in this is pretty awesome in terms of characters actors, Nolte, Ironside, Torn, Powers Boothe,… More

  • Ken S


    The Wild Bunch meets No Country for Old Men as directed by Walter Hill? Yes PLEASE! Also including the awesome cast of Powers Boothe, Michael Ironside, Rip Torn, Clancy Brown, William Forsythe and Nick Nolte (before he went all crazy). Did I mention it's co-written by John… More

  • A.D. V


    How the hell I missed this in the 80's I'll never know or forgive myself for. This is old school action-drama when it was done right with excellent performances from Nolte, Powers Booth and Clancey Brown.

  • xGary X


    Walter Hill does a pretty good imitation of the work of his mentor Sam Peckinpah with this action thriller revolving around the two heavyweight performances by larger than life Nick Nolte and Powers Boothe, old friends who become a Ranger and drug dealer respectively, resulting in an… More

  • Dean M


    Average action-thriller on the modern Western from thriller specialist Walter Hill is phenomenally violent and yet still manages to be tedious. Nick Nolte is the Texas Ranger up against fromer chum Powers Boothe who's now a wrong turn.

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