Walter Hill is the right director for this material. He specializes in male action movies where the characters are all a little taller, leaner, meaner and more obscene than in real life.

Nonstop action and occasionally brilliant dialogue give the film merit.

Beneath its trendy veneer of covert operations, "Extreme Prejudice" is a whale of an old-fashioned Western.

While Extreme Prejudice plays the Peckinpah elements straight, Hill throws some extra flavor in with intentional slices of outlandish embellishment to reality, as well as the long-simmering rivalry between its main characters.