Highlander: Endgame
Immortals Connor and Duncan Macleod join forces against a man from Connor's distant past in the highlands of Scotland, Kell, an immensely powerful immortal who leads an army of equally powerful and deadly immortal swordsmen and assassins. No immortal alive has been able to defeat Kell yet, and neither Connor nor Duncan are skilled enough themselves to take him on and live. The two of them eventually come to one inevitable conclusion; one of them must die so that the combined power of both the Highlanders can bring down Kell for good. There can be only one... the question is, who will it be?
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- Cast:
- Christophe Lambert , Adrian Paul , Bruce Payne , Lisa Barbuscia , Donnie Yen , Jim Byrnes , Peter Wingfield
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Best movie of this year hands down!
Admirable film.
There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.
It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.
I am a fan of the original Highlander movie and an even bigger fan of the Highlander TV series. I was excited to see that both characters were going to be in a movie together. I was even more excited because I saw that characters from the TV show like Joe Dawson and Methos were going to be in it too.Here is the disappointment: Joe & Methos are in the movie for roughly 5 minutes. They serve no other purpose than to unite Connor & Duncan. The other disappointment came when I saw character Jin Ke. He was awesome & should have had more screen time. The last complaint was that this movie was about an hour and a half. The story line and characters needed a little more development.I would recommend this movie because it did kick butt.
Duncan McCleod(Adrian Paul) searches (For eternity it feels like) for his brother Connor(Christopher Lambert) who has dropped out of the game, however when Jacob Kell(Bruce Payne) an evil immortal who has more quickenings than them, needs to be stopped, it's up to the McCleods to join forces to take him out and while I won't spoil the ending, we'll just say that it contradicts everything that came before it. Highlander Endgame was made I'm guessing for fans of the TV show while I never tuned in for the show (It was on USA network, after Silk Stalkings for goodness sake!) I figured this would be the best sequel since it had the most going for it. One it would tie up the conclusion of the TV show, it could work as a prequel to everything before and overall you would have at least a coherent sequel. Then came an ending that comes so out of nowhere you are left to ponder exactly how it could possibly work. The answer is, it doesn't. I understand Lambert is getting older but seriously how many Highlander fans can there be left by 2000 after the show was canceled for some time and the last movie was made six years before? It is of course some bright executive who thought, hey let's get Adrian Paul to take over this exhausted series since he doesn't cost as much as Lambert to hire and say let's completely contradict the series all together. I admit Lambert is no great actor but he is leaps and bounds far more charismatic than Adrian Paul and although thankfully we are spared another Lambert sex sequence, we are left to watch Paul interact with his girlfriend in the movie, in scenes so embarrassing, that had it gotten more press, this would have been a Razzie contender for worst performance of the year. Endgame despite being a very bad movie, is at least better than The Quickening but I say that if you really want a good movie about immortals, check out the original.* out of 4-(Bad)
Highlander 4 is what Highlander 2 should have been. It tries in its directing, its landscape-shots, its massive past scenes and so on to be like the first Highlander.The storyline playing "now" is not to discussed. It is for me being a huge fan of Highlander and liked the TV-show how the TV-Show-Characters are integrated to the "big"-screen-storyline. It worked quite well. At least - gunfights of immortals takes getting used to me :/.Its a big reunion of TV-Characters and Movie-Characters. Btw.: you need to see at least some TV-Episodes and the first Highlander to follow the plot a bit. Newbies to the Highlander-Thing won't be able to get a bit of the plot line and characters, because the movie assumes that you already know them. For others: go and see it :)The movie is about 90 min long and kinda hurries through the plot. Characters are not well drawn etc. another 10 - 15 minutes might have been giving the movie a better chance to get a little deeper into the characters and give the movie more depth.
I don't like this movie. It destroy any consistency of the Highlander movie's universe. They killed the hero. The producers ruined the original concept made by G. Widen. The movie has not the mystery of H1. That seems a simple action movie with karate noises. I think G.Widen should be angry with this movie. He leaved the project when knew they decided kill Connor.Without Connor, the highlander idea has no sense.Its a bad chapter of the series. Just that.