the sheriff of this small texas border town be the grim and determine jack benteen ( nick nolte ) . nick wear his shirt button to the neck and despite the heat and and be deck out in a white and flat brim cowboy hat . the setting be modern well and as modern a a texas border town get and drug be be smuggle across the border . nick try to stop it but he get no help from washington . his chief adversary in this conflict be cash bailey and play by power boothe in a dusty old white suit and another white cowboy hat . i have to pause long enough to applaud those character names jack benteen and cash bailey . i do not know why and but i love them . jack plain and solid american . cash flighty and self indulgent . and benteen and a major involve in the battle of the little big horn and while bailey be a perversion of jimmy stewart name in the best know and most endearingly heart warm christmas movie ever make . anyhow and nick and power use to be buddy but be now on opposite side of the law . on top of that and there be maria conchita alonzo and a cuban singer who here play a mexican singer who can not quite make up her mind which of these two gun pack hombre she more attracted to . the perfidious witch switch from nick because and a she put it and she want to know where we go from here after a five year long love affair . now and whether nick can interpret this or not and what she mean be that she want to get married and build a home . nick be determine to stride into the middle of power desert fortress in a small town across the border and put an end to his scurrilous and illegal activity and and retrieve alonzo in the bargain . i would not spend much time on the plot . the astute viewer will notice that yes and it true this be a peckinpoid movie . it a kind of combination of the wild bunch and getaway and direct by sam pekinpah . all the signature artifact and idea be there . lot of dusty old car carom along unpaved road and bottle of tequila pass back and forth and political corruption and the slow motion impact of bullet and the hyperglandular machismo and the in group treachery and the sexy woman who can not be trust and mexico a the last frontier and and gun . lot of gun . the climax of the wild bunch have a . 30 caliber machine gun spray lead through a crowd and kill million . extreme prejudice have a dual mount of . 30 caliber machine gun spray lead through a crowd . double your bullet and double your fun . it be write by john milius and a gun enthusiast himself . on one of his film and he have it write into his contract that he would be the hunter who actually shoot the animal for the film . on another tv production that he write and he have teddy roosevelt and his rough rider atop san juan hill in cuba and spray the enemy and and shout quote from henry v pep talk in shakespeare play . i kind of like these movie of hot and dusty texas town with bank robber and smuggler and bounce vehicle though . there be several of them float around . the photography and location shooting be usually pretty good and a they be here . but this one involve so much pandering to one taste for violence that it leave a sour taste . for instance and there be a paramilitary group of dea agent supposedly in it to help nick do his job . actually and their leader ( michael ironside ) be corrupt and intend to steal the dope money . mainly and these extra half dozen raggedy killer be there to raise the body count at the cathartic mass slaughter . they do not do anything else of import . the only performance i really felt come across be power boothe . he effectively combine an easy go and relaxed and aw shuck and genial texan sensibility with an iron core of greedy terpitude . after he shoot a mexican subordinate unexpectedly through the forehead ( big joke ) and he come up with something like and oh and heck and ya pay a governor enough around here and ya can shoot anybody ya like . now clean up this mess . nothing for a lady to see . it divert fun but it lack entirely any of the poetry that sam pekinpah might have bring to it while he be still function adequately . there never a pause for reflection or reality intrusion . every line and every action and seem design to propel the plot forward and a if the viewer might be bore if the story take a closer look at the everyday life of it character . fun and yes and but condescend fun .