2hotFeature one of my absolute favorites!

Libramedi Intense, gripping, stylish and poignant

Adeel Hail Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

Ginger Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Maz Murdoch (asda-man) "Highwaymen" is certainly no "The Hitcher" who subsequently directed both films. The director's obsession with cars could almost mean that he's a long lost relative of Jeremy Clarkson or someone off the "Top Gear" team, however in this film the director could've been Jeremy himself. "Highwaymen" has a really interesting premise, a mad man mowing women down the road, like "I Saw The Devil" I heard someone say! (Please do not get excited)."Highwaymen" really deserves a 2/10, but for pure enjoyment value I've decided to give an extra point. It's so bad it's entertaining. The reveal of the killer is one of the funniest things I've ever seen in a film that's meant to be taken seriously. Is this bionic man supposed to look chilling? Because he looks ridiculous! How is a man who bowls about in a little electric wheelchair that goes about 2mph, and who's car has its own mechanical ramp meant to be scary or believable? I mean, if this vengeful man has meant to be chasing this bionic man for 5 years or whatever, why has it been so hard to destroy an blind old man who can't even walk? The acting is also really bad!Jim Caviezel gives an extremely hollow performance and expresses literally zero emotion in what he's saying. He just gives a blank look, speaks a few vengeful lines and walks on. He's about as charismatic as a carrot! His glamorous assistant isn't that much better either, and even after several car crashes she's still manages to look just as ravishing as before. There is also no sexual chemistry between them and you don't really care about what's going to happen to them. The cop isn't much cop either as he annoyingly springs up from scene to scene just to make the already short running time a little bit longer.The final confrontation is quite funny though. Why has this woman just sat their with the worlds weakest villain and not hit him over the head or something, or tore up one of his metal braces? And then the bionic man shows some unreasonable strength and manages to hang out for dear life from one car to another! It's really entertaining in completely the wrong way. It also doesn't make sense to not give the bionic man any motive! He wants this woman and we never know why. The director just thinks it sufficient enough to give the reason "he just does"."Highwaymen" is also quite well edited and would certainly be a car lovers dream. However, the screenplay department especially needs some work! So if you're looking for a light-hearted laugh then give this one a go. But it is very, very forgettable.

Scarecrow-88 Homicidal motorist(Colm Feore), whose 1972 pepper green El Dorado(with a bum headlight)is his tool of execution, is being pursued across America by the film's protagonist(James Caviezel), the husband of a victim he run through in cold blood. Next on this madman's list is a haunted woman by the name of Molly(Rhona Mitra; DOOMSDAY), a motorphobic since being orphaned when her parents were killed in a hit-and-run crash. Cray(Caviezel)will have to protect Molly while engaged in a cat and mouse road game with 'Fargo'(Feore), aligning himself with a state traffic investigator, Mackin(Frankie Faison), when she is kidnapped by the psychopath. Fargo, whose mangled, mechanized body was caused by Cray on purpose when he drove his car into the killer out of revenge for his wife's sadistic murder, will wish to stage a similar crash for Molly..confined to a wheel chair, Fargo has a mechanical brace for his right arm, a prosthetic left arm, and mechanized legs/feet thanks to Cray's handiwork. While following after Fargo, Cray is often left prosthetic arms as bread crumbs..Fargo also enjoys teasing Cray over the CB. Mackin is the investigator when Fargo causes a massive pile-up in a tunnel(and another crash which kills Molly's friend, Boone, portrayed by Gordon Currie)which involves Molly..Molly herself has a reason to get even with Fargo, he hit her pal, Alexandra(Andrea Roth)with his El Dorado as well. Cray has done his homework and gives a psyche evaluation of Fargo to Macklin, how he's always been obsessed with a fascination for "vehicular carnage" since his own father was an automobile insurance agent(pictures of damaged cars and humans were often shown to Fargo as a boy, and this warped him to the degree that he himself had a desire to inflict such harm). Pretty straight-forward, well-acted action thriller, fast-paced with a rather basic, non-complex plot. It all goes as you'd expect and is over before you know it. Feore(Stephen King's STORM OF THE CENTURY)is in the movie for maybe ten minutes, but leaves an impression because he is always good at playing characters that are pure evil. Caviezel remains distant and cold, but I think that's appropriate for his character who is tormented by this man who took his beloved away. Mitra is mostly quietly anguished and aloof, her tragic past having shaped who she is at present. As you might expect in a movie such as this, good use of rural locations and desolate highways, not to mention some well-staged auto crashes and vehicle stunts.

The_Void My interest in seeing Highwaymen stems from the fact that it was directed by Robert Harmon; the same man behind what is probably the best road thriller ever made, 'The Hitcher'. Any hopes of this being as good as the 1986 film are quashed immediately, however, as an early scene that sees a number of cars smash into each other makes it clear that the action scenes aren't directed with any panache, and once the film starts properly and we are introduced to the dull cast of characters; all that we are left with is a rather crappy thriller. It seems as if Harmon thought he was directing something more like The Terminator, as the lead villain is a mechanical monstrosity, while Jim Caviezel's character stinks of Michael Biehn's Reese in the aforementioned masterpiece. The film gets underway when a young woman escapes from a car accident that claimed her friend. It soon becomes apparent that the perpetrator is a serial hit and runner, as the mysterious Rennie pops up and tells the young woman that he has been hunting the man in the car ever since he killed his wife.In fairness, this film has to be given some plaudits for the fact that the car chases don't utilise CGI, and so they have a certain realism to them (even if this realism is often way over the top). It's hard to really care for any of the action, though, because the characters are so poor and since the lead actress is so irritating, I often found myself cheering on the murderer. The villain is slightly different to the norm; given that he's a wheelchair bound maniac driving a specially adapted car, which he uses as a murder weapon. However, this sort of thing has been seen many times before and the fact that it's all so unlikely brings it down. Jim Caviezel hasn't been in many great films, but he should be glad that Mel Gibson took a chance on him in 2004 as I'm sure he wouldn't want to make rubbish like this for the rest of his career. The central cast is rounded off by British actress Rhona Mitra, who doesn't get to do much in her role. Overall, this is a far from perfectly pitched thriller; the action sequences aren't very exciting, the characters are boring and the plot doesn't offer much. Not worth bothering with, is my verdict.

Ancher Swartz First off, with the creator of "THE HITCHER", I was hoping for a real thriller, a joy ride of some suspense intensely centered around some real scenes of action and personal pain with what people go through in these situations. But all I was left with was watching a very predictable film with unrealistic and comical deliveries of farce. I found myself laughing at some of the hit and run scenes. Honestly I thought that when professionals created movies their would be a sense of wonder and amazement instead of quick and eye-rolling stupidity. I think the next time they let the same writer and director match up and do another movie they should just call it "TRASH". HIGHWAYMEN, all i can say is, "take the bus".