HIGHWAYMEN: Patched together from bits of Crash, Mad Max and Spielberg's Duel (with elements of director Robert Harmon's earlier The Hitcher), this agreeably barmy chase movie certainly breaks no new ground, but its leanness and lack of pretension are welcome in the era of overweighty, pseudo-psychological chillers such as this week's hopeless Twisted.

Jim Caviezel, whose vacant distance is as well suited to playing lunatics as deities, turns up as an angry widower on the trail of the man who ran his wife over some years earlier. This was no ordinary hit and run. Mrs Caviezel was the victim of a homicidal motorist who, as the son of a motor insurance investigator or something, developed a taste for road traffic accidents.

Highwaymen, which opened last week without a press preview, moves at a cracking pace and has a respectable sense of its own ludicrousness. And at only 80 minutes, it's hardly long enough to become irritating.

- Donald Clarke