Rogue cops and a Death Squad running wild at L.A.P.D.
Extreme Justice
IMDB describes 1993’s Extreme Justice like so:
“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.”
Once again IMDB understates a movie. The producers claim that the movie’s based on a true story – but they immediately cover their asses by disclaiming that all events and characters are fictional.
There’s a reason for that.
Let me tell you the way it is. Some of the events in the movie happened – but not to the extent seen in the film. Then all the writers let their imagines go crazy and concocted one bullshit scenario after another.
The result is an outlandish shoot-em-up from beginning to end which looks great on the screen and appeals to a huge audience.
Don’t know where I was in 1993 that caused me to miss this movie, but I did. Saw it for the first time two nights ago because I watched The Bank Job. Both Blood Ties and Extreme Justice automatically coat-tailed onto The Bank Job.
Liked all three movies and, as America’s Best Crime Writer, I deserved watching them.
Lou Diamond Phillips and Scott Glenn star in the movie.
By the way, is Lou Diamond Phillips still alive?
I mean, he’s got 174 acting credits and I saw him in La Bamba all the way back in 1987 and in dozens of films after that. But haven’t seen him since.
I was shocked to just learn that he’s in four current TV series – Blue Bloods, Prodigal Son, Blindspot, and Elena of Valor.
Obviously I never saw any of those. To me, he always comes across as over-acting.
Scoot Glenn has 98 credits, of which I saw Urban Cowboy, The Right Stuff, Man on Fire, The Hunt for Red October, The Silence of the Lambs, Backdraft, Training Day, and two Bourne Identity movies.
I like him a lot.
Chelsea Field is the female lead. She’s a reporter trying to expose the death squad and she’s also Lou Diamond Phillips’ love interest.
Despite having 54 acting credits, I don’t remember seeing her in anything – and can’t say I missed anything.
On the undercard is Yaphet Kotto and a buncha memorable faces without memorable names.
I always liked Kotto and just saw him in 1982’s Fighting Back last week.
By the way, the movie Fighting Back gets referenced in 6,000 Kilos – my newest novel. Fighting Back was set in the Kensington section of Philadelphia. It’s about the locals trying to take Kensington back from the criminals and drug dealers who’re running it.
Guess what?
Criminals and drug dealers are still running Kensington almost 40 years later.
Guess what the book’s about?
That’s right. Drug trafficking – and it traces the 6,000 kilos from coca fields in Colombia, to being uploaded onto a container ship in the middle of the night, thru the Panama Canal, and into the Port of Philadelphia. The deal links a Colombian Invisible with drug lords from Sinaloa Cartel located in Philadelphia and New York.
Here’s the trailer for Extreme Justice.
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