By Michael O'Sullivan Michael O'Sullivan Film critic and reporter covering movies and the people who make them Email Bio Follow Reporter March 19 at 4:45 PM Rating:
Although we see Bonnie helping to orchestrate a jailbreak in one early scene, it is only from the back, and at a distance. Unlike the 1967 film starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway — a multi-Oscar nominee, including two wins — we hardly know what she or her partner-in-crime even look like, until their violent end.
Costner and Harrelson are low-key fabulous as a pair of middle-aged former Texas Rangers, brought out of retirement and assigned to a special highway detail by the Texas governor, Miriam “Ma” Ferguson . With no jurisdiction outside their home state, Frank and Maney must bend the rules to follow their quarry, who have left a trail of blood and bank robberies from New Mexico to Iowa and south to Louisiana. In doing so, the film’s heroes also run afoul of the U.S.
In scenes in which Frank and Maney reminisce about their past adventures — including some where the notion of bending the law comes closer to breaking it — the issue of ethics in law enforcement is brought to the fore, sometimes painfully. Other echoes of today come from the ways in which Bonnie and Clyde use the media — meaning, in those pre-Instagram days, the newspaper — to cultivate a following.
No way! Criminals aren't heroes?
I cannot wait. It makes me sick that the US idolizes criminals. And these actors...fuggetaboutit!
How is this even posible?
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