This is a perfect film to watch with your "Great Cinematography" checklist to hand. It really does do all those spectacularly well shot shots spectacularly well. The performances also Quality; strong and solid - just as you'd expect from these two veteran lads. The story is mostly well paced and um, easy to follow. You wouldn't be wasting your time sitting down to watch this movie. Not at all. But (here it comes) it severely lacks SPARKLE. I'd have settled for sparkle in any form - a bit of irreverent humour, or any sort of humour actually, some surprise twists and turns in the narrative, some nuanced ambiguity on the moral compass, unexpected jigging with the timeline, quirks, mistakes - anything to lift it out of it's solid, conservative Quality traditionalism. The nearest it gets is to expose the true hideousness of it's usually "heroic" villains - so an extra point for that. I'm sure it fulfilled its Netflix brief.
Review of The Highwaymen
