A riposte to Arthur Penn’s groundbreaking Bonnie and Clyde, this $49 million-budgeted G-man picture arrives more than 50 years after Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway brought counter-cultural glamour to the outlaw business. The Highwaymen, which concerns the Texas Rangers who shot Bonnie and Clyde down, is aware of and unbothered by its own antiquity. Adoring crowds swarm around Bonnie and Clyde’s car, preventing the police from getting a clear shot. A gas attendant tells Hamer: “All the luck to them: they’re only taking from the banks, who are taking from the poor folk like me.” Hamer responds with a thrashing. We seldom see Bonnie and Clyde on screen, and when we do, they are framed so we can’t see their faces.

Source: The Irish Times March 28, 2019 04:52 UTC