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The Highwaymen

2019

John Lee Hancock

Kevin Costner, Woody Harrelson, Kathy Bates, Kim Dickens ...

6.1

7,540

Thriller Kevin Costner plays legendary lawman Frank Hamer and Woody Harrelson will play his long-suffering sidekick Manny Gault. Though both men were out of the Rangers by the time Bonnie & Clyde started their robbery reign, they were commissioned as special investigators, coaxed back by a consortium of banks to assemble a posse and end the robbery spree of the notorious gang reputed to have killed 13 cops - and others. The Highwaymen takes the ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Joe Leydon Variety	"'The Highwaymen' relies almost entirely on the chemistry generated by Costner and Harrelson to sustain interest (...) [They] effectively infuse their words with world-weary conviction."
		John DeFore The Hollywood Reporter	"Costner and Harrelson both give fine performances, but when it's time for each to have his one allotted dramatic monologue, you can practically hear the movie clearing its throat"
		David Fear Rolling Stone	"The best thing about [it] by a long shot is seeing Costner tap back into that Gary Cooper (...) That, and the double act he forms with his costar (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 5)"
		Eric Kohn IndieWire	"Hancock delivers his most palatable movie in some time (...) A straightforward investigative saga that flattens this riveting saga into a familiar routine."
		Brian Tallerico rogerebert.com	"What makes 'The Highwaymen' particularly disappointing is that two solid pieces of character work get buried in the filmmaking (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"
		Candice Frederick The Wrap	"[It] is such a slow burn that it’s hard to stay invested in it (...) Though 'The Highwaymen' starts out with a crackling action sequence, the rest of the film never lives up to it."
		Ryan Oliver The Playlist	"[A] dull, normcore version of the radical 'Bonnie & Clyde' story (...) For two highly charismatic performers [Costner and Harrelson], there is something unromantic and dire about their performances"
		Charles Bramesco The Guardian	"[It] is criminally bad (...) Hancock and Fusco want their protagonists to be the good guys so badly that they have rigged the game, creating a world were everything they do becomes right by virtue of having been done by them (…) Rating: ★ (out of 5)"
		Jo-Anne Rowney Mirror	"'The Highwaymen' has the soft pace of a detective movie, a ruggedness of a western and the graphic shoot outs of an old action film."

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