‘The Highwaymen’ retells ‘Bonnie and Clyde’ story
“Bonnie and Clyde” is one of the landmarks of Hollywood cinema, so it takes a healthy dose of chutzpah to revisit that territory. “The Highwaymen” does just that – sort of. Instead of focusing on the two elusive outlaws whose two-year bank-robbing spree galvanized Depression-era America, it retells the story from the point of view of the lawmen who ambushed and killed them.
Is it as good as “Bonnie and Clyde”? Of course not. But
