Touches You

Beautiful, moving film.

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

Highlander sequels are notorious for being awful, and for ignoring the previous movies. This movie, however is different in how not different it is: it's basically a campy remake of Highlander. But now with magic.The plot is Connor has won The Prize, but has done nothing with it. Centuries before, a Japanese mage removed 3 immortals from The Game by cursing them and trapping them in a cave. An excavation releases them, taking away The Prize and resuming The Game.Mario Van Peebles tries to replace Clancy Brown's Kurgan, but his villain just isn't that interesting, except for his periodic sorcery. His character feels like a weak ripoff.There's good stuff for fans in here, the Holy Ground fight for instance. There's an incredible sequence set to Bonny Portmore. The movie tries to recapture the original, but in ridiculous ways and with a classic movie sin: introducing a kid.The name didn't help the movie: it was called both The Sorcerer and The Final Dimension, the latter having nothing to do with the film, and the box wrongly suggests it involves time travel.This movie isn't amazing, and it's nowhere near as good as Highlander, but it washed the taste of Highlander 2 away (as much as it could), and in my opinion is the true sequel to Highlander.

This is probably the second best of the movies, but it is a long way down from the original. All Highlander stories are best when they interweave stories from the past and the current day. This movie does not do this well. Also, spoiler alert!!! Do not read further if you do not want to read the spoilers.The plot lines set in the present day in this movie are almost the same as the present day section of the first movie. In both movies, The evil immortal hires a prostitute, terrifies somebody by driving wildly, Connor falls in love, Connor warns the woman to stay away, etc Also this movie lacks enough action scenes. Mario Van Peebles does a nice job of the playing the bad guy, but he is not nearly as scary as the Kurgan. Christopher Lambert seems to be doing this for paycheck and looks like he is just going through the motions. The script has many holes in it and does not seem to make much sense even in the Highlander world much less the real world.

From my point of view, this was an attempt to put back puzzle in normal after the terrible "Highlander 2 - The Quickening" sequel. Well, they did it, but still, the film is nothing special. What I like about is film... it has a very different way of telling story, different tempo of the proceeding through the film. In a way, it's a kind of lemonade film... a quite relaxing. Everything is relaxing and nothing special, just like some kind of TV film from "Hallmark", you know, when come back home, after the work, you eat something, than you sit back, or lie down on your favorite couch and you stumble upon this film, and then you just relax.Simply nothing is touching you so deep about this film, everything is hollow. Everything is like "oh, OK", "oh, they have a sword fight, right", "allrighty", "nothing here..." "that's good..." in kinda boring way.Actors: Christopher Lambert - wooden, doing nothing but talks like a bored Frenchman. Deborah Kara Unger - about her later. Just keep reading. Mario Van Peebles - his performance was funny, He keep it creepy and ugly, the way his character is supposed to be, well that's his way to perform it, his way to see this character, but it was weird that he keeps remind us on Kurgan, and that pig growls... damn... spit out those slimes from your throat... Jesus! Mako - His "guest role" was fine and relaxing as a great Japanese immortal sword master. And to mention Raoul Trujillo (warrior 2) from "Apocalypto" and "True Blood" season one (the Longshadow vampire dude), it was interesting to see him from his younger days.OK - now for the highlight of review... Probably the best thing in whole film, was no more or no less - the SEX scene! The sex scene between Christopher Lambert and Deborah Kara Unger was more than impressive! Wow, they did it without a double. That was a real talent between the two of them. Good movements and good "coreography" during the sexual "work", combined with a "f..kable music during the scene. The sex scene music was more than exciting, it's like... the band members were there, watching the horny couple and they composed the music on the spot and say, "allright, let's perform it!" Damn... that was good. Too bad I can't find a soundtrack. For me, this sex scene is 'number uno' in the motion picture history. The Best. About Deborah Kara Unger... her performance in film was so not interesting, that everybody expect thesame "Go on, Connor! F..k her!!!" YEeeeeeeeahhh!!!! They did it!! To mention about music, it was also a fine thing, it was good and relaxing. Highlander - The Sorcerer film is nothing more than, relax... take it easy... but you'll get horny during the sex scene he he.

After all the hate for the second one, I suppose they just didn't want to take risks anymore. This sequel just screams mediocre. There's some cool stuff happening here and there, but all of it has been done already in the original. They even duplicated whole scenes just to be on the safe side. I really do wonder why "Highlander" ever bothered to have sequels in the first place, I know producers enjoy money but this story has been over for some time. So Highlander is at it again, fighting evil and killing immortals by cutting of their heads. If you can kill them, why the hell do they call them immortals? Either way, the action is quite nicely done, the fights have a nice choreography to them, the acting is just the right kind of bad. It stops there, because these good points don't really make for an entertaining movie. You'd think so but no. It's actually quite boring because this story is uninteresting as hell. So predictable, it's insane. Only real good part is the introduction, it pretty much sinks like a brick from there.