Highwaymen on DVD (2003)

A Better Suggestion..........

The Boy from St Albans , 30/03/2005

.........than subjecting yourself to this drival, would be to put your head in your toilet and then flush it. After you have done that, repeat for the next 90 minutes - you will have more fun doing that, rather than watching this crap - it is a waste of time and energy. Rhona Mitra has got a very impressive rack, but they cant save this film - especially as she doesn't even unleash them for our perusal.

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Really quite good, actually.

KEITH KING from eastbourne , 07/11/2004

I was dismayed to read some of the reviews but against my better judgement put this film on my queue because it was running short. I was ready to watch the first five minutes and then send it back, but it was really quite good, I enjoyed it. It had slight resemblences to that movie by Spielberg in which the HGV driver persues a lone motorist, was that the name of the movie, Persuit? As I always say, dont rent movies just because they are this weeks big blockbuster release (Troy, errr!)give the small movies a chance.

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Utter pony...

sorgos from Fife , 01/02/2005

I've no idea how stuff like this gets made...both ridiculous and boring. And it's rare to see a more wooden performance than that turned in by Jim Caviezel, he spends the whole film in a trance-like state. He's either bored out his mind or pilled up on vicodin. And the love interest/woman-in-peril doesn't come across any better, she's like a Poundstretchers Sandra Bullock, easy on the eye but that's all she seems to bring to the party. They're not helped by the uninvolving script though.

Two stars, one for the 1968 Super Stock Barracuda and one for the short running time.

Avoid - rent The Hitcher, Duel, Vanishing Point, American Perfekt, even The Car instead.

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Dumb

Ashman from Wiltshire , 29/10/2004

I took nothing from this movie. Highwaymen thinks it's a fast and furious thriller but misses the boat completely. In fact, what we have here is a film devoid of thrills. Highwayman is so busy trying to entertain with below average car chases that it has forgot about including a decent script, a clever narrative or anything at all original. Granted, I have seen a lot worse but I see no reason to give this movie a rating above one star. This is a dumb and corny film. The only thing it has going for it is the very short running time which, believe me, is long enough.

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Fans of The Hitcher beware

russell ormes from Manchester , 24/11/2004

Robert Harmon's The Hitcher (1986) hits all the right notes. An intelligent script and some shocking sequences serve to make this earlier Harmon film a gem of it's genre. So I had no real problems in picking up Highwaymen for a viewing. So how does this up to date offering fair against it's masterful ancestor? Well, someone gets in a car. After that they couldn't be further apart. With many films these days using all sorts of clever devices for setting out past present and future in the telling of a tale, slow motion sequences followed by the caption 'Five years later' leave a sour taste from the opening sequence. But after thirty minutes of utter drivel and a game of 'you cliche then me cliche' it takes a flashback sequence to remind you of the amateurishness saturating this movie. Such a ludicrous script was always going to rely on the action to pull it off and this catastrophically fails to deliver. Some of the camera work is nice, and I enjoyed being confronted with a horse all of a sudden in a freeway tunnel but the jerking juddering camera gives no sense of excitement in short uneventful car-chase sequences. And then when something does happen your left saying 'Well there is no way a car would behave like that'. As to the end of the film, I have no idea, i turned it off WAY before then.

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So bad I wanted to cry.

canopus from Leicester , 27/08/2008

Oh Lordy, this film is so bad, I fear there is not enough space to autopsy every fault. In fact, the only reason I awarded one star is because Rhona Mitra starred in this film. God, I love that Indian-Irish babe. I want to marry her (and I was tempted to award more stars because of Rhona, but that would detract from the overall review of the film).

Anyhoo, in a nutshell, the failings are as follows:

1) The film had potential in terms of script but the lack of direction/management and lack lustre performance of the characters, sounded the death knell.

2) This is the best part. The psychotic serial killer is a paraplegic, whose primary mode of transport is a wheelchair!. The guy even has artificial limbs!. Yet he is able to over power his victims.

Go figure.....

Final thoughts.....Rhona should choose her films wisely. This lady has potential but she is not doing herself any favours by starring in two bit films.

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