Directed by John Lee Hancock with an eye towards authenticity - the crew filmed the climactic showdown on the same stretch of road where the outlaws were ambushed in May of 1934 - Costner says the experience of shooting the final scene was "haunting."Ī slow-burn depression-era buddy cop film with historical roots, EW critic Chris Nashawaty writes, " The Highwaymen is a leisurely ride with a pair of actors who know how to do a lot by not doing too much." Less of an action film than a character study with occasional stunt sequences, The Highwaymen stars Woody Harrelson and Kevin Costner as past-their-prime patrolmen, pulled out of their desultory retirements and returned to the job - and their old partnership - by a put upon Texas governor ( Kathy Bates). 2019's The Highwaymen, the story of the two Texas rangers charged with hunting down the bank robbers, doesn't take the same guns blazing approach, but remains a worthy follow up to one of Hollywood's best-known crime stories. Bonnie and Clyde stunned audiences when it premiered in the summer of 1967, revolutionizing cinema with its casual broadcasting of gratuitous sex and violence.
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