Review: Highwaymen
Colm Feore is a vehicular nutjob who runs over Jim Caviezel’s
wife with his Cadillac. Years later, Caviezel has made it his mission to nail
the sonofabitch (who was hurt in the ‘accident’ himself, it seems, though that
was due to Caviezel’s hell-bent pursuit of him), with accident survivor Rhona Mitra
caught in the middle. Frankie Faison has a thankless role as a traffic
investigator.
Watchable 2004 thriller from the director of “The Hitcher”, Robert Harmon ends up a
major disappointment when you realise you’re just watching a mixture of “The Hitcher” and “Duel”, done wrong. It’s an admittedly an intriguing idea, but it
doesn’t come off. Although he gives the best performance in the film, Feore’s
severely disabled serial killer is just one of many elements of incredulity in
this massively contrived film. The ‘accidents’ themselves raise a plethora of
unanswered questions. Jim Caviezel is good enough to at least equal the rather
bland C. Thomas Howell in the otherwise brilliant “The Hitcher”, however, uber-sexy Mitra and character actor Faison
(Charles S. Dutton busy? Richard Roundtree not returning the director’s calls?)
are wasted in dud parts.
Kinda tolerable on a hokey B-movie level (and at under 90
minutes, mercifully short), but could’ve been a whole lot better. In fact, you
end up somewhat pissed that it squanders an interesting idea. Scripted by two
scribes of schlocky reptile-themed flicks, Hans Bauer (“Anaconda”) and Craig Mitchell (“Komodo”). So that’s something, I guess.
Rating: C
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