A highly entertaining movie in a genre that is often as stiff as the Lady Gibson's boning.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Jay Carr
Scott makes it easy to overlook the conventionality beneath his sometimes overdone but almost always enjoyable combination of atmosphere and propulsiveness.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Owen Gleiberman
Watchable in a facile, trashy way. Unfortunately, most of the movie is mired in sludge, slime, mud, blood, and studiously dank cinematography.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Stephen Holden
None of it adds up to terribly much beyond a rip-roaring adventure that shows off Carlyle and Miller as cynical British city cousins of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.Read Full Review »
The plunk-ing of a rap/disco soundtrack onto a movie about debtors' prisons and 18th century British highwaymen?Read Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
A film overgrown with so many directorial flourishes that the heroes need machetes to hack their way to within view of the audience.Read Full Review »
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Village Voice: Gary Daupin
The script is as full of holes as some of the highwaymen's bullet-riddled victims -- why not throw a drum-and-bass track over everything?Read Full Review »
Everything is stunningly photographed by John Mathieson, but to paraphrase Gertrude Stein, a cockroach is a cockroach is a cockroach.Read Full Review »