Movie Description

Highway Patrolman is a 1991 Mexican feature film by the British director Alex Cox. It was produced by Lorenzo O'Brien, who also wrote the screenplay, and stars Roberto Sosa, Bruno Bichir, Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez and Vanessa Bauche. The cinematography is by Miguel Garzon and the production designer was Cecilia Montiel, who went on to work on The Mask of Zorro as well as on Cox's Alan Smithee film The Winner. Cox considers Highway Patrolman to be his best work while a number of prominent film critics have expressed the same opinion as well.

Jonathan Rosenbaum of The Chicago Reader concurred that "in some ways it’s [Cox's] best work to date - a beautifully realized tale about the life of a Mexican highway patrolman who’s neither sentimentalized nor treated like a villain." He later included it in his year-end top-ten list, observing that "working in a virtuoso long-take style, Cox mixes comedy with tragedy and social critique with straight-ahead action." J. Hoberman would also hail it as "Cox’s most impressive comeback" many years later in a retrospective review published in The New York Times.