| Highwaymen | |
| Producer: | Mike Marcus Carroll Kemp Bradley Jenkel Avi Lerner |
| Starring: | Jim Caviezel Rhona Mitra Colm Feore Andrea Roth Frankie Faison |
| Music: | Mark Isham |
| Cinematography: | Rene Ohashi |
| Editing: | Chris Pepper |
| Studio: | New Line Cinema Millennium Films Cornice Entertainment |
| Distributor: | New Line Cinema |
| Runtime: | 80 minutes |
| Country: | Canada United States |
| Language: | English |
| Gross: | $2,394,737 |
Highwaymen is a 2004 action thriller film directed by Robert Harmon. An American-Canadian production, it stars Jim Caviezel, Rhona Mitra, Frankie Faison, and Colm Feore. The score was composed by Mark Isham. The film was released on 13 February 2004.
A man named Rennie Cray is motivated by revenge to track down and kill the man who ran over his wife, a serial killer immobilized by the man himself. The killer uses a wheelchair. He drives a 1972 Cadillac Eldorado to stalk and kill his victims in car accidents. When the serial killer makes a young woman his next target, the man has to stop the killer once and for all.
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 13% based on, with a weighted average rating of 3.2/10.[1]
Anna Smith from Empire gave the film 2/5 stars, writing, "Both the well-choreographed crash scenes and the gritty cinematography hint at a better film. Shame no-one took the time to make it."[2] Jamie Russell from BBC awarded the film 1/5 stars, calling it "a five-lane pileup on the freeway to hell".[3] Mark Savlov from Austin Chronicle gave the film 2/5 stars, stating that the film "lacks the sprawling, Westernized mythos of The Hitcher and feels, in the end, like a previously owned nightmare sorely in need of a new universal hell joint."[4]