The Highwaymen (2018) - ★☆☆☆☆

Kathy Bates!!

I really did not enjoy this movie even a little bit. Not even the short ties and tall pants combo was enough to win me over.

Woody, of course, was the one good part of this movie. Unlike Kevin Costner's character, who is rich and annoying, Woody's character is poor and kind of sad. Furthermore, Woody's character actually questions what exactly gives him and his Texas Ranger Pal the right to kill Bonnie and Clyde (apart from Governor Kathy Bates).

Obviously, he still shoots them to death (with what feels like a million bullets), but when they tow Bonnie and Clyde's bullet-ridden corpses into town and people start swarming them (gross), Woody does hit one eager reporter with a "shame on you." Wow....

If this movie was a thousand times better, it would have been fun to watch it right after Natural Born Killers, since those two movies place Woody on either side of what is essentially the same story. However, this movie was bad, beige-toned, and boring, so it seems to me the director really missed their chance to partake in what my ninth grade English teacher called "The Author's Craft."

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