Dreadful in all ways...

What starts off as an interesting premise swiftly dwindles into an insanely bad combination of "Duel" and "Joy Ride". This dreadful film, starring Jim Caviezel and Rhona Mitra, is an entirely implausible and embarrassingly laughable story about a man whose wife was mowed down in a highway hit & run and who now finds himself in a cross-country hunt for the killer.

Naturally, this man (Caviezel) has to team up with a hot girl (Mitra) who is the next apparent target for the lunatic driver. The lunatic seems to be part man, part machine, assembled with random prosthetic limbs and auto-parts. He taunts the Caviezel character over a CB radio while rampaging the conveniently deserted streets and highways.

There is also a dumbass cop who only serves as a hindrance to justice just so that the film doesn't end after 30 minutes.

The film never made it to theatres in any wide release... It is essentially a straight to DVD movie. Deservedly so, I might add.

It is amazing that an actor of Caviezel's status can do "The Passion of the Christ" and "Highwaymen" in such close proximity to each other. One is a legendary film about Jesus Christ's final hours filled with grandeur and significance and the other is a cheap chase movie with a half-man, half-car bad guy. It boggles the mind!

I strongly suggest you steer clear of this awful 80 minute pile of dung. It should probably have been an episode of The Twilight Zone: The Lost Episodes.

Oh, one more thing... it may just have the worst final moment in the history of filmmaking. I almost vomited all over myself as the closing credits began to roll. Up until that final shot this film was nestled comfortably in the D-range. But because of it, the film gets a despicable and fully deserved "F"!!!

© Written by TC Candler

How We Rated This Film TC Candler - F Richard Propes - C Jacob Hall -

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