Kevin Costner chasing Bonnie and Clyde, what more could you ask for? This is the program The Highwaymen, a Netflix movie that was released on the platform in April 2020 and is worth watching, not only for fans of the actor.
Adapted from a true story
Specifically, the film tells the story of Frank Hammer (Costner) and Manny Gault (Woody Harrelson), two retired Texas Rangers who are tasked with catching the robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow. The two men pull out their old-fashioned ways and embark on a hunt that will make history.
A true story that is ultimately relatively little known. Because if the duo Bonnie and Clyde almost became “pop” with an Arthur Penn film starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway (which shook Hollywood cinema in more ways than one), the names of the investigators who caught it were forgotten. . That’s what The Highwaymen is trying to achieve.
The myth is shattered
The feature film is directed by John Lee Hancock, director of the solid Alamo, Academy Award-winning The Blind Side and founder of Walt Disney’s very disturbing Shadow of Mary – The Promise. The tone he chose for The Highwaymen is certainly twilight, as the film demythologizes Bonnie and Clyde to present them as a sleazy outlaw world far removed from the romantic, opulent image Penny’s film conveys. Actors Emily Brobst and Edward Bossert play the role of two crooks.
The Woody Harrelson-Kevin Costner duo works great, but you have to be prepared to hear two angry and somewhat old-fashioned gentlemen about a world view that does not care about great principles and in which conflicts are resolved with guns in hand. Fortunately, they have flaws and go beyond this simple archetype. So give them a chance!
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