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A rogue cop joins an elite L.A.P.D. unit who secretly operate as a vigilante death squad, but soon begins to question their methods.A rogue cop joins an elite L.A.P.D. unit who secretly operate as a vigilante death squad, but soon begins to question their methods.A rogue cop joins an elite L.A.P.D. unit who secretly operate as a vigilante death squad, but soon begins to question their methods.
Thomas Rosales Jr.
- Raymond Chavez
- (as Tom Rosales)
Adam Gifford
- Speer
- (as G. Adam Gifford)
Sonia Darmei Lopes
- Rosa Rodrigues
- (as Sonia Lopes)
- Director
- Writers
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- TriviaAccording to an article of the Los Angeles Times in 1992, the producers of this movie were the subject of intense surveillance by the Special Investigation Section during the making of the film.
- GoofsIn the beginning, there is a party where the crew of cops target shoot some beer bottles. One cop lines up 5 empty bottles, but the other cops shoot 12 bottles half-filled with beer.
- Alternate versionsFor the German VHS release by United Video, almost all the violence is cut. The DVD release is uncut.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Extreme Justice: Vidmark Entertainment VHS Commercial (1994)
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The low user rating on here is quite dichotomous to the actual quality of the film itself.
Not to be confused with Walter Hill's timeless action-Westerner, Extreme Prejudice, Extreme Justice is a fairly straight-to-the-point action flick that wasn't made to horde awards. It's no high-brow art piece, not by any stretch of the definition, but it is highly entertaining and moves at a rapid clip from start to finish.
I'm not going to rehash the description of the film, but I will say that story-wise it's interesting for what it is but the execution is 100% cliché. You can see the ending coming a mile away, but how it gets there is what makes it such a fun watch.
There are shootouts sprinkled all throughout the film from start to finish. There's hardly ever a dull moment. The one leading female character even manages to strip down early in the film for some not-too-gratuitous fan-service. Something that we rarely see in action movies today.
What's interesting about this film, though, is that it feels more like it came out of the late 1980s rather than the early 1990s.
There's like a checklist of typical 1980s bad-action movie tropes that the film fulfills, but it's all done in a great and entertaining way. For instance, each of the shootouts are chock-full of unconventional street weaponry, especially used by the S.I.S., squad. The results from these shootouts are always bloody and borderline gory.
In this way, Extreme Justice taps into the short-lived 1980's ultra-violence run that took Hollywood by storm before Conservative bench-warmers on the church pews and concerned Liberal Democrats took to the congressional halls to bemoan Hollywood and television's obsession with gun violence.
If you're a fan of top-notch squibbing the likes of which would make Paul Verhoeven nod in approval, and a shoot-first, ask-later style approach to the action sequences (many of which may as well have come straight out of the Death Wish series) then you're definitely going to find Extreme Justice enjoyable.
Not to be confused with Walter Hill's timeless action-Westerner, Extreme Prejudice, Extreme Justice is a fairly straight-to-the-point action flick that wasn't made to horde awards. It's no high-brow art piece, not by any stretch of the definition, but it is highly entertaining and moves at a rapid clip from start to finish.
I'm not going to rehash the description of the film, but I will say that story-wise it's interesting for what it is but the execution is 100% cliché. You can see the ending coming a mile away, but how it gets there is what makes it such a fun watch.
There are shootouts sprinkled all throughout the film from start to finish. There's hardly ever a dull moment. The one leading female character even manages to strip down early in the film for some not-too-gratuitous fan-service. Something that we rarely see in action movies today.
What's interesting about this film, though, is that it feels more like it came out of the late 1980s rather than the early 1990s.
There's like a checklist of typical 1980s bad-action movie tropes that the film fulfills, but it's all done in a great and entertaining way. For instance, each of the shootouts are chock-full of unconventional street weaponry, especially used by the S.I.S., squad. The results from these shootouts are always bloody and borderline gory.
In this way, Extreme Justice taps into the short-lived 1980's ultra-violence run that took Hollywood by storm before Conservative bench-warmers on the church pews and concerned Liberal Democrats took to the congressional halls to bemoan Hollywood and television's obsession with gun violence.
If you're a fan of top-notch squibbing the likes of which would make Paul Verhoeven nod in approval, and a shoot-first, ask-later style approach to the action sequences (many of which may as well have come straight out of the Death Wish series) then you're definitely going to find Extreme Justice enjoyable.
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- S.I.S. - Special Investigation Section
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- $8,000,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 36 minutes
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- 1.85 : 1
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