Line #11 Film/Highwaymen


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3	''Highwaymen'' is a 2004 thriller directed by Robert Harmon. It stars Creator/JimCaviezel, Creator/RhonaMitra, Creator/FrankieFaison, and Creator/ColmFeore.
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5	At a motel off the main road, James Cray (Caviezel) witnessed his wife being run over by a mysterious driver. Convinced that it wasn't an accident, Cray pursues the traveler--a sinister SerialKiller known only as "Fargo" (Feore)--as he continues to claim more victims during his never-ending journey throughout the United States to avoid detection. When Cray saves one of Fargo's latest victims, Molly (Mitra), Fargo comes back to make sure Cray's effort is again in vain.
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7	No relation to ''Film/TheHighwaymen''.
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9	!!This film provides examples of:
10	* AxCrazy: Fargo is a sadistic SerialKiller who enjoys killing people with his car.
11	* CarFu: There's a lot of car action and various chase sequences. It is also the way Fargo murders people.
12	* CrusadingWidow: Cray is hunting down Fargo to avenge his wife, who Fargo had murdered right in front of him.
13	* CycleOfRevenge: Fargo's murder of Cray's wife started a long cycle of revenge between the two. Cray crippled Fargo in retaliation, but Fargo escaped the hospital to continue his murder spree elsewhere and constantly sends Cray photos of his victims to taunt him. He finally [[spoiler:kidnaps Molly and returns to the motel where he originally killed Cray's wife to reenact the murder with Cray as a witness.]]
14	* EvilCripple: A serial killer named Fargo who runs women over with his car, including the protagonist's wife. The protagonist rammed into him with his car in revenge and the guy is barely able to move with several braces (neck, legs, etc) on his body. He remade his car into a super-durable weapon as an extension of himself and continued his murder spree.
15	* EyeScream: Fargo lost the use of one of his eyes, which is part of the visual metaphor about his body being his car because it only has one working light.
16	* HandicappedBadass: Subverted with Fargo. He is a pretty BadassDriver, but his body is such a wreck that he really isn't much of a threat without his car.
17	* HeWhoFightsMonsters: When Cray saves Molly from Fargo the first time, Fargo offers another face to face meeting in exchange for the girl. When Cray takes him up on the offer, Fargo laughs and notes that Cray is becoming more like him the longer he's pursuing him.
18	* HoistByHisOwnPetard[=/=]LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler:In the climax, Fargo temporarily leaves his car to inspect Cray's totalled car. Molly uses the opportunity to get behind the wheel and run Fargo over with his own murder weapon. Cray then finishes him off by running him right into the same car that he t-boned all those years ago.]]
19	* InspectorJavert: Detective Will Macklin, chasing after Cray. A JustifiedTrope because of the fact that Cray, in his quest to find Fargo, has become so much like him in actions that he is quite easy to confuse for the actual serial killer. Once he has some more evidence at hand [[HeelFaceTurn he decides to help Cray instead.]]
20	* LastMinuteHookup: [[spoiler:After Fargo's defeat, the protagonist initially considers leaving as his quest for revenge is over (Fargo previously murdered his wife). He apparently changes his mind and he and Molly seem to get together just before the end credits.]]
21	* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: Cray mentions that Fargo is very good at making his killings look like random hit-and-run incidents, alluding to his former work in insurance.
22	* MonsterMisogyny: Fargo primarily targets women, whom he runs over with his car. Cray claims that he has evidence for at least nine murders committed by Fargo over the years, of which Cray's wife was only the fourth victim.
23	* RescueRomance: [[spoiler:It's implied that Cray and Molly ultimately get together after he rescues her from Fargo a second time. Fargo had already murdered Molly's best friend and her male suitor previously in the film, so it's not surprising that she'd look to Cray for comfort.]]
24	* SerialKiller: Fargo uses his customized car to go on a killing spree of women through vehicular homicide.
25	* TheEndOrIsIt: The very final seconds of the film showcase that Fargo survived the crash that apparently finished him off, [[spoiler:only for Detective Macklin to appear and [[BoomHeadshot blow his brains out]] [[DefiedTrope with a shotgun]].]]
26	* ToKnowHimIMustBecomeHim: In the time between his wife's death and the beginning of the film, Cray had become a drifter, living in his car and listening to a police scanner for hit-and-run attacks that fit Fargo's profile (just like Fargo). He later provides a very detailed profile of Fargo to the police, and understandably the cops believe for a moment that ''he'' is the serial killer.
27	* WhereItAllBegan: To spite Cray, Fargo kidnaps Molly and returns to the now abandoned motel (which Fargo bought in the intervening years) where he initially killed Cray's late wife to play the murder out again.
28	-->'''Fargo:''' [showing the place off to Molly] I got it at a good price. Insurance money.
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