“Paradise Highway” (** out of four) was a disappointing melodrama about a truck driver (Juliette Binoche) who is forced to smuggle illegal cargo in order to save her imprisoned brother (Frank Grillo) from a prison gang but she soon realizes that the cargo is a kidnapped teenage girl (Hala Finley) and that the police (led by Morgan Freeman and Cameron Monaghan) are on her trail. Well-directed by Anna Gutto and starkly shot by John Christian Rosenlund but never all that gripping or compelling and goes on way too long. Binoche is good and looks almost unrecognizable at first but Grillo is wasted and even Freeman looks bored and seems to be just going through the motions.

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