Awesome movie!!!
Added 10/9/2009
This movie gets 5 stars simply for starring Rhona Mirta! Doomsday, Beowulf, Invisible Man - Rhonda Mirta is always hot! The movie itself is pretty good too. A crazy pyscho drives around in a heavily customized car and runs people over from coast to coast. Ms. Mirta's friend gets pancaked by the psycho, resulting in her being introduced to James Cavielize who is a bit of a nut himself as his wife was squished years back by the psycho. Most of this movie is a cat and mouse game between Cavielize and the psycho but at least its an entertaining one.
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Not even a good B movie
Added 3/16/2009
Have always love everything Jim Caviezel has been in but this one was the worst. It wasn't Jim's fault but the story was just sloppy. There wasn't much character development and key parts were just unbelievable. There's too much nonsense to cover it all but one of the worst was after the final duel between Jim and Colm Feore (Colm is the bad guy that ran down Jim's wife) Jim's car is flipped on it's side. Colm gets out of his car and rolls his wheel chair to Jim's car. Then miraculously a tire on Jim's car pops and this causes his car to flip back over and he's looking right at Colm who's now out of his car in his wheel chair. Come on!
How many do I share? The bad guy left town and only said he was going "west". Because Jim "knew him" they just started driving west where they happen upon an abandoned garage where Colm had been. Amazing coincidence. Colm of course left pictures and a key to the hotel room where they should meet.
Spoiler alert...if you waste your time and watch this movie...The final scene is at an abandoned hotel where 5 years earlier Colm had run down Jim's wife. After the final car duel, cops and ambulances miraculously just appear. I don't know where they came from or why but they just all showed up. By this time Colm is down on the ground having been run over by Jim (the ultimate revenge justice). Turns out he's not dead but a traffic investigator who's been tagging along shots him with a shotgun. Earlier the traffic investigator had urged Jim to save the girl and not kill Colm. Now, for no reason at all the character changes his mind and shoots the bad guy who's laying crushed and near dead on the ground. That's how the movie ends. Could be the lamest movie I've ever seen. I'm shocked at the positive reviews.
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Another good one from a great, underrated actor.
Added 2/25/2009
Jim Caviezel has been one of my favorite actors since I first caught him playing Edmond Dantes in the most recent remake of 'The Count of Monte Cristo' and he turns in another great performance here, as the revenge-driven widower-turned hemi powered vigilante. The only thing I wondered about by the end of the movie? Whether they restored that beautiful Hemi-cuda, and what ever happened to it?!
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Kind Of A Grade 'B' 'Hitcher'
Added 2/23/2009
If you are familiar with "The Hitcher," with Rutger Hauer, and liked it, you might like this movie, too. 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. 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.
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Underrated
Added 11/28/2008
Highwaymen is an action/horror movie directed by Robert Harmon, who also made The Hitcher. The concept of cars and a psychopath seems to work for Harmon. The movie is short, less than 80 minutes, and fast paced. The story is good and the movie entertaining. Though not as good as The Hitcher (the villian is also nowhere near as good as Rutger Hauer's hitch hiker), it's definitely an entertaining movie, although the climax was a bit too short.
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