Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

Okay, so family on vacation that is terrorized by some local thugs while on the highway. So, what was the catalyst that led up to the events. Was it the hotheaded father (MacDonald) who acted like an ass in the diner while confronting the thug who almost ran his kid who was standing in the middle of the road down? Or was it the nubile 16 year old daughter of the other main character(lambert) who tries to seduce the same thug in the diner's bathroom after seeing him take a leak in the toilet. Granted she didn't know who was at at the time but seriously, what the you know what was she thinking?! She works the creep all up and then realizes what a mistake she made after the fact. And all because she is bored.So with those scenarios on the table the movie quickly escalates to Daddy #! eventually biting the dust in a blaze of glory after being challenged to a game of chicken by the thugs in the El Dorado. The rest of our weary travelers(minus daddy #2 who is beat in the head with a baseball bat) are then taken hostage by the thugs after the main thug decides he can't leave any witnesses. After some time in a locked room thug comes to collect from nubile 16 year old, keeps her as hostage while going on wild car ride with his long lost brother, and, well you'll have to watch the rest of the movie to see what happens; good luck because it's hard to find. I thought the acting was okay. I liked Alexondra Lee(Party of Five, Callie) as Ashley. Whatever happened to such a talented actress? She, Scheffer, Brolin, Arquette and Adrienne have more screen time that the rest of the cast so we get to know them. The ending was good. If you're looking for a good movie to waste an afternoon with try this. You can find it online if you look hard enough.

I'm glad this rubbish is quite hard to find even with its good cast and plenty of reasons to be more accessible. Thankfully it's not, and if someone is hiding this mess from viewers is because this movie is THAT awful. Too bad I've found it (terrible image quality I must say). "The Road Killers" is a stupid idea designed from stupid minds who think only stupid people would watch it. The problem was that they cast interesting actors to make us hooked in it, so they end up grabbing well intentioned viewers who endure this tasteless junk. Stupid people will enjoy this big time, of course, they don't watch a movie with their brains turned on. Those will enjoy it. What's the movie's goal? To present good yet hot tempered folks who out of their stupidity decide to risk their lives for "honorable acts" like revenging the son who almost got hit by a car conducted by bunch of jerks. That's what Christopher McDonald father does when poor kid Joseph Gordon-Levitt miraculously escapes from being run over by Craig Sheffer and his crazy family formed by Adrienne Shelly, Josh Brolin and David Arquette, a sort of like Manson family of the roads. So, father goes on a pointless and dull chase against the idiots, dies in a horrible way (the turning point of the movie when you realize it's all downhill from here) and indirectly causes the kidnap of Christopher Lambert's family along with them. I won't bother going in telling you that Highlander will play the hero and try to save everybody while meeting other problems in the way such as stupid sheriff (Michael Greene) and another psycho. Oops I already did, sorry.There's no redeeming value, no entertainment value, no values at all. It's just an incoherent and violent driven flick with poor lines, bad editing, and clichéd moments. All the characters seem to have a severe case of bad memory where they repeat themselves time and time again. I won't blame much on the actors because they somehow manage to be enjoyable at times, they convince a little, but not enough to make you deeply connected. I didn't find myself thrilled by the action presented, I just felt completely terrorized into see how ridiculous this was. Best case scenario: well, it's useful to show how good folks can turn into the most idiotic when they act by impulse, trying to mess with people they don't know. That's the only worthy lesson from here, but I think you can find similar in better pictures out there.I hope that in the years to come someone from the cast apologize for being part of this. I hope they'll say: "It was a terrible movie, an even worst shooting, very problematic but I needed the money. It helped with my problems, it saved a family member from dying due to sickness. It paid all the hospital bills". Then, I might forgive just a little all the pain I went through while watching this. In the meantime, stay away from this wreck. 2/10

Wow, I've really found myself not being able to bring myself to care about, much less root for anyone in this ridiculous film. Not the moronic 'bad guys', nor the equally intelligence- deficient 'good guys', the latter of which was the chief person responsible for the idiotic proceedings when he refused to stay out of the middle of the road admiring a flower of all things while a car was coming.Riidiculous plot aside, granted a very hard thing to overcome, the acting is sub-par. Furthermore any tension or excitement that this film might have been able to muster is rendered moot by the viewer not being able to relate to idiots.

This one reminds me of the outer limits ultra-DIY stuff that Miramax was experimenting with in the '80s before they went "legit" with "respectable" art-house fare around 1989."The Road Killers" is from a few years after that but you can still see the yearning to be on the cool, cutting edge of the alternafence. It's also extremely interesting (at first, at least) because you get to see sneak peeks at very young versions of some of today's biggest actors (Josh Brolin, David Arquette, Chris MacDonald, a 7 or 8-year old Joseph Gordon-Levitt).This film doesn't take itself seriously in the least, and that could very well have been intentional as it seems to deliberately ape the sadistic-teen-hoods-go-on-a-rampage genre ala "Hot Rods to Hell." The lead thug, Craig Sheffer (never a very good actor, unfortunately, and a very ham-fisted villain in many flicks) does and says all the hateful things at all the right times, but can't get beyond his ridiculous Motley Crue wig (I really hope it is a wig, for his sake). Brolin and Arquette have scant little to do, and the "good guys," with the exception of MacDonald, never get us very revved up to root for them in the first place.The script is a complete disaster with long, intermittent stretches where there is no action whatsoever, and the characters are too shallow and boring to expound upon. This is supposed to be an action picture, but it ends up as more of an overlong parody of one.A huge, wasted opportunity, as nobody had the guts to make deliberately different mainstream films back in the day, except Miramax. Now, they wouldn't touch this kind of stuff with a ten foot pole, unless it was to be helmed by Rodrigeuz or Tarantino.