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One of my all time favorites.

Fantastic!

As Good As It Gets

A Masterpiece!

Good as a stand alone movie, not bad, just don't think of this as a sequel, I liked this, very well done, creative, nice, Beautiful.

There can't be only one.... ......Version of this film. A review of The Renegade Version We first see Macleod in make up that was borrowed by Van Damme in the present day scenes of The Quest, an old man weary of sequels and with a voice that sounds like he is immortality constipated. It's not long before two maniacal birdmen lay siege to him, and he returns to his make up free age, along with his rock ballad hair. What should have been a fun scene is ruined by poorly staged choreography and confusing focus on the action. The audience know that these immortals can die by beheading, so why Mulcahy decides to focus on a headless body exploding beggars belief. But this early set piece does feature the funniest scene in the film, when a drunken onlooker asks one of the antagonists for a light. Predictably, it all goes downhill from there. Whichever version you see, the film remains one of the most incoherent films ever released, virtually ignoring the narrative from the first movie. This version almost completely ignores the alien aspect of the film, and the planet Zeitgeist, Macleod and Ramirez are just banished to earth by being covered in neon purple while looking a little agitated. But the film has that strange gift of having several scenes that are worth seeing alone, on a separate clip compilation. Any scene with Connery is a sheer joy, even if it's just to see him have the look of a man who is being paid presumably millions for a couple of days work consisting of smoking cigars and drinking whiskey, the man doesn't have a care in the world. Elsewhere, Ironside hams it up as the villain, finding it utterly hilarious to kill dozens of innocent people by driving a subway really really fast, and being pun-tastic whilst doing so. Bearing in mind he would have never understood the concept of modern transportation. Virginia Madsen pops up as the love interest, but you soon lose interest when you see her make love to Macleod literally minutes after him turning from a shrivelled member to a boss-eyed hero. It's a tragedy for sure, lots to criticise, but lots to laugh at. The fight scenes are slow, the effects are far from special, but when you are watching a film where a Scotsman is playing a Spaniard by wearing a little fake tan, being allies with a Parisian playing a Scotsman whom both use their natural accents, are you really looking for consistency? Plus when the Quickening happens, it looks like Macleod is guiltily climaxing whilst suffering from awkward constipation. And they all have big perfect hair. A tragedy, but a magnificent one...... Hopefully they will release the Coherent cut one day, or even a Rock Of Ages cut.

And somebody in Hollywood said: "Highlander one was a stand alone film, and it turned out really good and people absolutely loved it. It was one of the most popular movies in the box office and made a lot of money." And someone else from Hollywood said: "Great Point. Let's take everything that everyone loved about the first one and retcon it away into something entirely different and try to make more money." How the heck did that happen? The Game was one in the first movie.And it is a movie about immortals. They literally had all of human history in which to make another film and stay true to "The Highlander." Instead they destroyed the franchise on its second outing. "Rape" would actually be an appropriately weighted word for what they did to it.And the fans, the critics, and movie goers in general all hated it.It wasn't redeemed again until the TV series did it right once more.

Years after battling the Kurgan in Scotland and New York, Connor MacLeod and his suave mentor, Juan Villa-Lobos Ramirez, are back, tracking time warps and are having new adventures. The Kurgan may have been vanquished, remember decapitation is the only way of being killed if you are a highlander - but now there are new and more powerful foes to counter in an even more hostile world.This film starred: Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery &Michael Ironside.Sometimes if films are so bad, I can enjoy them like Batman and Robin, however I can't even enjoy this one because it is so bad it makes you cringe your life away. Stick to the first film as this and probably the other sequels are a waste of time.