Highwaymen (2004)

Very best movie i ever watch

One of my all time favorites.

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

When I read the synopsis this movie reminded me of Death Proof, Quentin Tarantino's great homage to 70s B-movies. I wasn't thinking that Highwaymen was a ripoff of Death Proof, especially as Highwaymen was released in 2004 and Death Proof 2007. However, thought it might be similar.Well, it's not. While Death Proof was slick, entertaining and had great dialogue(as you'd expect from Tarantino) and was even plausible, Highwaymen is lame and feels contrived throughout. Also feels very cheap - the CGI is pretty weak. The car cabin-view country driving scenes look like they were shot in the 60s!Only reason to watch this movie is Rhona Mitra...

This could be a great movie if wasn't for a strict fact: there are a lot of clichés here.Now I understand why this movie spent so few weeks on big screen and then released directly to home video after that. I have to admit that there is a slice of something good in here and I like Rhona Mitra, she is a good and gorgeous actress.The movie starts well, but when Molly gets in her friend's car and tells her to "go slowly because she is not in the mood for speed", this sentence is something so predictable as the entire movie. And that is something sad, very sad. I could just feel my bad humor taking over me, just waiting for the clichés of the clichés. And I was totally right.Everything you've been seeing for 20 years in theaters since road movies came to life is here, but as its worst way: just all the bad habits of these kind of movies.The movie starts with a psychological trauma (cliché number 1), then comes Molly with that sad sentence (cliché number 2), then you meet the bad guy, someone physically injured in the past (cliché number 3) probably by its present object of affection (4). So, you meet the policeman (5), he pretends to be funny (6), but he's not just because his weak dialogs are as weak as the actor. He's a black man (7), he's bearded (8), he's unhappy (9), his life is completely mediocre (10) and he's always searching for something big to happen (11), but he doesn't know it yet (12). The good guy... this is the greatest part for me because he's is the perfect traumatized good guy. He is searching for the killer for centuries (13), he knows everything about the killer's habits even not knowing him (14)... and when I mean "everything" is EVERYTHING (15): the way he thinks (16), the way he acts (17), even why the killer uses to travel for some special place during some time of the year (18), his favorite food and the places he uses to go. The funny thing is that even knowing everything and a little more, the good guy NEVER catches the bad guy and we never know why. Of course the killer finally gets the good boobed girl (19) and leaves some intentional traces behind (20), and... oh, my god, with also a key of an intentional place (21). Believe me or not, the killer's waiting for the good guy at the place where he murdered the good guy's wife! (22) Well, you know... the killer is trying to mean that "HA HA HA, I'VE GOT YOU ONCE AND I WILL GET YOU TWICE!" (23). The killer dresses the girl with the same dress the good guy's wife was using when she was killed (24). The girl survives (25), the policeman appears when everyone needs him (26), the bad guy is killed (27). Of course the bad guy still have his dying breath (28) but then the policeman says something as so impactant as a kick in the teeth (29) and then blows the killer's head with a shot (30). The movie ends (31).Sound great and entertaining, doesn't it? Of course I can't remember all other clichés, but I guess that 31 is a good number for you to give up seeing this crap. And of course the movie ends with a question on your head: How can a so injured man as the killer have so much strength to places that so heavy girl everywhere he wants??? And this is the cliché number 32.I love you Rhona, you are great but this is a sh*t.

If you are familiar with "The Hitcher," with Rutger Hauer, and liked it, you might like this one. The main difference in the two movies is that in here, the killer never leaves his car. It's not as intense or well-made as the former, but Highwaymen is decent enough for one look. It's very short so you aren't going to be wasting the whole day, anyway.The story in a nutshell: a serial killer runs down a young woman in his car at random and is not caught for years until Jim Caviezel, whose wife also was a victim of the killer, figures out it's the same guy, and tracks him down for a showdown of his own.The film starts out well, and is very intense, but loses momentum in the second half. Boredom isn't the problem, it's the credibility of the story. There are just too many holes in the plot and nothing becomes credible. It's no wonder this movie never got much publicity: it has too much of a "B" feel to it, despite Caviezel's presence.However, it is entertaining and the actual running time of the story is a mere 76 minutes, so if you're looking for an hour-and-a-quarter of escapism, this is it.

I am no car genius but that Baracuda was pretty souped up. When Renie and Molly are leaving his shack in the junkyard, he has her turn the car on in an attempt to get over her fear of driving. What makes no sense is how easily the car started. A car with that kind of power would have such a high compression that it would take a little cranking to start it. Any car experts out there have to agree. My boyfriend is a mechanic and totally agrees with me. I like how at the end of the movie when Renie flips the car after being chased and he magically gets it to start again and drive with a flat tire to go after the crazy guy. Why didn't he just get out of the car and beat the weirdo down. As far as the ElDorado goes, whats with the headlight man. You would think he would get pulled over for that thing. Also, somebody tell the crazy guy to get a new fan belt. That thing is making noise the whole movie. One more topic of discussion. How did a guy who is practically a vegetable manage to capture and tie up Molly? As crippled as he was, she could have managed to escape from the guy so easily. Take his arm off and beat him with it! Overall, I thought it was a pretty good movie.