ClassyWas Excellent, smart action film.

Stellead Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

Zlatica One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Scotty Burke It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

videorama-759-859391 Here's a film that was a warm welcomed surprise. If you want to be entertained, get Mark Lester to do it. And when you have great actors like Glenn and Phillips as the leads, you know you're in for surefire entertainment. Here, it's more explosive entertainment, in a well polished and slick actioner about loose vigilante justice, only the justice here is wearing a badge. SIS is Special Investigation Section, a secret division of cops, who are out to take out the worst high profile offenders, ready at the assigned locale, for when they strike, only we have more murders than arrests. Losing his cool with a scummy piece of s..t, undercover cop, Jeff Powers (Phillips) is the latest to join Glenn's warm posse of cops, but being a witness to long time friend, Glenn's reckless actions, puts a strain on the work relationship, where soon at first hand, Jeff begins to see the real truth about this organization. The films has great shootouts and action, brilliantly staged, with no dull moment to spare. Chelsea Field, a really good actress, plays Phillip's older girlfriend, an avid reporter, out to bust this squad. The last scene, a stand off between Glenn and Phillips, where all out war is declared, is my favorite. Have to viddy this surprisingly well made film again. To bag this film, you'd have to be a bit off. Great, exciting entertainment, based on real incidents. Watch.

kapelusznik18 ***SPOILERS*** It's when overly aggressive and hot headed cop Jeff Powers, Lou Diamond Phillips, is assigned top the exclusive SIS unite of the L.A police Department that he comes top realize that his brutal tactics were humanitarian actions compared to that outfit. The SIS, that sounds a lot like the mid-east terrorist organization ISIS, is involved in letting criminals commit the most horrendous crimes like murder & rape so that they can first get the goods on them and then blow them away without trial!It's Powers' partner and head of SIS Dan Vaughn, Scott Glenn,who orchestrates and sets up the targeted by letting them get away with literally bloody murder just so he can gun them down and keep them off the city streets, in their graves not prison cells, forever with no regards to their victims lives. How Vaughn & his boys get away with all this is by the internal affairs of the police department looking the other way by not doing anything to stop them. It's Powers who gets religious when his girlfriend L.A Chronicle reporter Kelly Daniels, Chelsea Fields, writes an expose on the death squad unit that if fact exposed him as one of its members!***SPOILERS*** Powers soon learns that he's on SIS's hit-list and the only way to save his as well as Kelly's behind is to come clean and expose SIS to the public, the cops were no help, before it can do any more damage! To him Kelly as well as the citizens of the city. With everything now out in the wash, in SIS being exposed by the L.A Chronicle, Powers comes to see the discredited but still on the L.A police force Dan Vaughn to tell him what he thinks of him and his gestapo like police organization. The ending isn't pretty with the usual cool as a cucumber Vaughn losing it and going completely insane in trying to murder the man , Jeff Powers, who fingered him. were told at the end of the movie that Vaughn ended up shot to death in one of his set-up raids that went terribly wrong for him. As for Powers he resigned from the LAPD and is now the head of internal affairs at the city of Detroit Police Department.

Robert J. Maxwell The film open with a prologue telling us that what we are about to see is inspired by a true story, and the next credit tells us that the following film does not resemble any living human being, or any dead ones either. The first scene has half a dozen members of the Special Investigation Section (or whatever), under the leadership of Scott Glenn, shooting a hold-up guy to pieces. We get the impression that these are some tough fellas.Then there is a cut to Lou Diamond Phillips, enraged, behind the wheel of his car in a high-speed pursuit of a child-molesting perp. Phillips repeatedly bumps his car against the other -- a requirement in movies like this -- until he forces the fugitive through a plate glass window in slow motion. Then Phillips leaps from his car, pulls the bleeding perp from his wreck, and beats the unholy hell out of him before being restrained by his partner and the other newly arrived cops. A loose cannon alright, and a prime recruit for the SIS.What the SIS does, with the complicity of the higher authorities, is follow the suspects, wait until after the crime is committed, then walk in and kill the perpetrators. It's a death squad.When Phillips' girl friend, Chelsea Fields, a crime reporter, discovers her lover's involvement, they have an argument and he leaves their love nest. As you can see, not a lot of imagination has gone into this production, beginning with the title -- "Extreme Justice." You can, after all, have justice, but if it becomes somehow "extreme" it's no longer justice.The conflict between Phillips and his girl friend echoes the opposing values of lovers in previous police movies -- "Bullett," "Heat," "Serpico." And it belongs to a more inclusive genre -- career vs. marriage. See reporter Kurt Russell wrestle with Mariel Hemingway in "Mean Season." Watch John Wayne try to balance his love life in military films like "Wings of Eagles" or "In Harm's Way" or "Rio Grande." Now a member of the elite SIS, Phillips is happy as a clam, but when he finally grasps what's up, he turns to his girl friend and spills the beans. She prints it. There is a final brutal fight between Glenn and Phillips. The politically correct person winds up decked.The two leads turn in professional performances and Chelsea Fields is sexy. Yaphet Koto stands out among the squad members. The weakest performance is by an SIS member who kills a young girl by mistake and later blows his brains out. The direction is what you'd expect from a police movie built around several episodes of violence.

gridoon In a plot strikingly similar to that of Eastwood's "Magnum Force", "Extreme Justice" deals with cops that take the law into their own hands and execute criminals in cold blood. The blurring of the line between law and justice, and between vigilantism and paranoia, is done here more efficiently than it was in "Magnum Force", so the movie holds your interest, despite the routine on all other accounts script and Mark Lester's unimaginative direction. The entire male cast is solid, but Chelsea Field is unconvincing as the hotshot reporter. (**)