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Highway Patrolman Reviews

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Pedro Rojas and Anibal Morales graduate from the Police Academy and start their careers working as highway patrolmen in North Mexico. Read more

Starring	Vanessa Bauche, Roberto Sosa, Bruno Bichir, Roberto Soza
Director	Alex Cox
Genres	Drama, World Cinema

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- Entertaining, episodic account of low life in Mexico, filmed in a semi-documentary style and concentrating on the small happenings of an existence on the margins.
- 30793
- - Halliwell's Film Guide
  - 02 Mar 2006 at 15:41
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- - 5
  - 0
  Big-Up The Foreign Art House!
  
  I rented this movie because I tend to believe that Hollywood films are getting more and more clich? and predictable as time goes by, so if you want to find ... read more »
  
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  - JP
  - England
  - 07 Apr 2005 at 15:32
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- - 0
  - 0
  tequilla surprise
  
  A bit slow at the beginning but it gets better as it goes along. For a low budget movie, the special effects are good and in proportion to what is going on. ... read more »
  
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- - papatez
  - 228 reviews
  - folkestone
  - 16 Oct 2011 at 21:18
- - 0
  - 0
  Curiously sweet
  
  Guns, cocaine, whores, police and drug-runners in a run-down dump somewhere in Mexico. But it amounts to a surprisingly gentle story.
  
  Take the main ... read more »
  
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- 974330
- - DeathOfNarrativeCinema
  - 154 reviews
  - Wallingford
  - 19 Mar 2011 at 00:39
- - 0
  - 0
  Not at all hum drum!
  
  Quite amusing among the disarray of hum drum life in Mexico.
  
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- - a customer
  - Dunstable
  - 15 Feb 2010 at 17:04
- - 1
  - 0
  alex
  
  i thought easy rider and blue electra glide could come up to something, and ... well it did, repo man was great, but then, i'm notgreat dire ctorlike alex ... read more »
  
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- - juradino
  - 701 reviews
  - London
  - 10 Jan 2008 at 01:23
- - 1
  - 1
  so-so version of a predictable story
  
  A rookie cop finds himself accepting bribes while trying to uphold law on the highways, smugglers have better cars and weapons than the police and the local ... read more »
  
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- - Saty
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  - 28 Apr 2005 at 11:42
- - 1
  - 0
  Arty plus action
  
  Stuck in a rut of mindless violence and
  
  meaningless fantasy? OK classy or arty films are often a pain in the neck, but
  
  this one is ... read more »
  
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- - a customer
  - Exmouth, England
  - 15 Apr 2005 at 11:27
- - 5
  - 0
  Big-Up The Foreign Art House!
  
  I rented this movie because I tend to believe that Hollywood films are getting more and more clich? and predictable as time goes by, so if you want to find ... read more »
  
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- - JP
  - England
  - 07 Apr 2005 at 15:32
- - 2
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  Cox on top form
  
  This is the best film of his since repo man IMO. It's a very gritty and realistic protrayal of life on both sides of the thin blue line in Mexico. It's ... read more »
  
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- - edavey
  - London
  - 19 Jan 2005 at 19:09
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- - 5
  - 0
  Big-Up The Foreign Art House!
  
  I rented this movie because I tend to believe that Hollywood films are getting more and more clich? and predictable as time goes by, so if you want to find ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 89716
- [Highly rated reviewer]
  - JP
  - England
  - 07 Apr 2005 at 15:32
- - 2
  - 0
  Cox on top form
  
  This is the best film of his since repo man IMO. It's a very gritty and realistic protrayal of life on both sides of the thin blue line in Mexico. It's ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 319500
- - edavey
  - London
  - 19 Jan 2005 at 19:09
- - 1
  - 0
  Arty plus action
  
  Stuck in a rut of mindless violence and
  
  meaningless fantasy? OK classy or arty films are often a pain in the neck, but
  
  this one is ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 92747
- - a customer
  - Exmouth, England
  - 15 Apr 2005 at 11:27
- - 1
  - 0
  alex
  
  i thought easy rider and blue electra glide could come up to something, and ... well it did, repo man was great, but then, i'm notgreat dire ctorlike alex ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 511073
- - juradino
  - 701 reviews
  - London
  - 10 Jan 2008 at 01:23
- - 1
  - 1
  so-so version of a predictable story
  
  A rookie cop finds himself accepting bribes while trying to uphold law on the highways, smugglers have better cars and weapons than the police and the local ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 97718
- - Saty
  - Reading
  - 28 Apr 2005 at 11:42
- - 0
  - 0
  Not at all hum drum!
  
  Quite amusing among the disarray of hum drum life in Mexico.
  
  Report this review
- 861965
- - a customer
  - Dunstable
  - 15 Feb 2010 at 17:04
- - 0
  - 0
  Curiously sweet
  
  Guns, cocaine, whores, police and drug-runners in a run-down dump somewhere in Mexico. But it amounts to a surprisingly gentle story.
  
  Take the main ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 974330
- - DeathOfNarrativeCinema
  - 154 reviews
  - Wallingford
  - 19 Mar 2011 at 00:39
- - 0
  - 0
  tequilla surprise
  
  A bit slow at the beginning but it gets better as it goes along. For a low budget movie, the special effects are good and in proportion to what is going on. ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 1052071
- - papatez
  - 228 reviews
  - folkestone
  - 16 Oct 2011 at 21:18

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