Highwaymen
USA 2003. Director: Robert Harmon
Cast:
James Caviezel, Rhona Mitra, Frankie Faison, Andrea Roth

After his wife have been run over by a mad hit-and-run killer five years ago James Caviezel (Jesus Christ in that Mel Gibson movie) now obsessively drives around America looking for the driver. He have already crippled him once years ago, spending time in prison for it, but the madman is still on the prowl, driving around in some mechanically improved futuristic-looking car hitting women like crazy. One of the women killed is Andrea Roth and now her surviving friend Rhona Mitra is the next target. This is weird shit from the director of The Hitcher. Perhaps he didn't like the recent sequel to his hit early movie, the appropriately titled Hitcher II, and decided to better it with another original road-thriller equally aiming for a cult-following. Perhaps. But I don't know. Caviezel is a good actor, Mitra is not (but who cares), but the script is so sketchy and ridiculously thin it doesn't matter. It's very well made, though, and the cinematography is first rate, but it's still mainly a guy tailing a psycho in a psycho-mobile.


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