The Highwaymen
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- Kevin Costner
- Woody Harrelson
- Kathy Bates
- John Carroll Lynch
- Thomas Mann
- Dean Denton
- Kim Dickens
- William Sadler
- W. Earl Brown
- David Furr
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The film often feels in many ways as an attempt to correct history, or at least the previous Dunaway-Beatty-led portrayal of a bumbling Hamer. But there are moments of beautiful stillness and nicely-filmed sequences — like a nifty car chase in dust clouds — that make the hunt enjoyable.
There are so many missteps that Hancock and screenwriter John Fusco make here, but to list a few briefly: The dialogue is 85-per-cent clumsy exposition, the heroes are given exactly one character trait each (Gault’s a drunk, Hamer’s a jerk) and the film’s politics read as MAGA-esque vigilante evangelicalism (the movie is perpetually on the verge of having Hamer say, directly to the camera, something along the lines of, “the only good criminal is a dead criminal”).
An excellent and entertainingly old-fashioned police procedural.