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Summary: Honest - I thought it was a joke
Review: I started looking at this monstrosity and kept waiting for the punchline, like, "The REAL movie starts now" or "April fools". But after a while is slowly dawned on me that this pathetic tripe was the sequeal to the fantastic "Highlander". It's a hard choice over which is worse - the scenery, the acting or the plot. I mean this thing is so screwed up it's like someone caught the film half-way through and said, "Man, we have to do something else." So here we have old-man Lambert appearing as some white-haired sage before he goes young yet again. Then there is some wacky extraterrestrial line (all the Immortals are from aliens or some such bull). The story line was so absurd I truly could not keep track of whether the current action was in any way reflective of the past - It was just so stupid. I feel like getting on a soapbox and yelling to the powers that wannabe, "Stop messing around with good movies" or better, "Next time spend the money and hire a few good writers - this stream of consciousness stuff is for the birds."
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Summary: What would Joel, Tom Servo and Crow say?
Review: Where are the "Mystery Science Theater 3000" guys when you need them? The original "Highlander" was, if not great art, at least original and entertaining. One of my favorite guilty pleasures, in fact. Don't ecpect more of the same here. To call this remarkably bad sequal egregious would be to heap upon it extravagant and undeserved praise. The only thing that might make this movie bearable is an audience of good hecklers. Trust me on this--this is really and truly bad stuff. Really.
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Summary: The Quickening of series destruction
Review: HIGHLANDER II: THE QUICKENING - loved by some, hated by many. This is one of those films that's so bad, it's good. And to tell you the truth - I loved it! The film is set in the year 2024 A.D. The Earth's ozone layer was destroyed in 1999. Connor MacLeod (Christopher Lambert), the immortal hero of the first film, built an "Anti-Ozone Shield" to protect the earth from the sun's violent rays. But now, 26 years later, everything's falling to part. A conspiracy hides the fact that the Ozone layer may have healed itself; Connor has become a feeble, hated old man; and Connor's old immortal enemy, General Katana (Michael Ironside), has been sent to kill MacLeod. It's definitely not Connor's day. Or month. Or year. Or century. Or millenium. Or -- Let me just say that this film contradicts most of the things we learned about immortals in the original "Highlander". Connor has grown old - something that the first film did, in fact, say, towards the end. But most everything else has been ignored. My favorite part of the film was Sean Connery. In a performance no longer than that of the original film, Connery is hilarious. There are some truly great scenes featuring him. If you can just tell yourself that this isn't a sequel, it's a sci-fi type of remake - and then ignore the cheesy effects and horrible script, you will find a stunningly fun film. Definitely NOT to be used as an example of the "Highlander" series.
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Summary: Shew.
Review: A total stinkbomb. A real PVC-plugger. Let's see, take a reasonably decent first film with an interesting Sci-Fi/Fantasy premise and totally flush it down the loo and make up some bull about being aliens from another planet? Was Sean Connery that desperate for money? Hadn't he just won an Oscar a couple of years earlier in The Untouchables? And what was the deal with the flying skateboards?
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Summary: The worst of the series
Review: Technically this is the first sequel to the movie Highlander. In the origional adaptation to the 2nd film it was revealed that they were from another planet. The prize was given to the last one standing but would become immortal once again if more immortals showed up. This being said it really teed off a lot of fans. In the renegade edition they did what they could to salvage this movie by changing dialouge and adding scenes. However the core principal was still the same. In this one the year is 2024 and Lambert is now an old man after winning the prize. The earth is coated with a shield because of the ozone layer being vanquished. Near death Lambert just wants his life to end. Then some immortals show up and once again he can't die. After decapitating one of them he regaisn his youth in a huge display of pyro technics and is young again (much to the female heroin surprise). He slays the other croney and then with new found youth basically rapes the girl (testing out the old machinery). After this an old face from his past shows up to cause random chaos and the girl falls in love with COnner. In the end they destroy the shield (with the help of the ressurected Ramierez played by Sean Connery) destroy the villian, and once again he is mortal. The main problem is the fact that the villian was to much like the one from the first (as is the one in FInal Dimension) and and the story no matter how you swing it [stunk]. Overall this is the balck sheep of the series and for the most part should be avoided, unless you are a Highlander fanatic.
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Summary: The worst
Review: Don't even shell out the money to rent this. What were they thinking?
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Summary: Bad, Bad, Bad
Review: Bad. That's it. I saw this movie when released in the theatres....I was excited that there was a sequal. But, was totally confused and disappointed when walking out. I had never seen such a piece of .... This is unbelieveably bad. I even bought the renegade DVD version to, hopefully, get some sense out of it. The only good thing on the DVD is the excuses by the director for how bad the movie was. BAD.
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Summary: Highlander Flop?
Review: Hmmm..... Where to begin. The special effects are great, but as a major Highlander fan, I don't see where this one fits in. Great for boredom or to collect for your Highlander Collection. Even after they took out the PLanet Zeist stuff, it still didn't really help much, but at least they did a better job with the Renegade Version. The stills even are screwy, if you ever try to look at them the screen just flashes them all by, not good for Highlander standards, I like to look the special features over at a leisurely pace, not go into a seizure. BB-T
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Summary: Beyond Bad
Review: The first movie was one of my all time favorites, so I was thrilled to find out that there would be a sequel. I knew Michael Ironside would be a villan (good call), and somehow Sean Connery would be back (I wasn't sure how, considering he had died, but I was willing to suspend disbelief). What a profound disappointment. The sequel was as bad as the original was good. They completely ignore any continuity and disavow the story line. I mean... my god! Words fail to describe just how bad this movie is.
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Summary: I watched this so you don't have to!
Review: For the love of Pete, stay AWAY from this revolting garbage masquerading as film. If you want to watch a bad film that's funny-bad, go buy BATTLEFIELD EARTH or DUNGEONS & DRAGONS. But no one is laughing over this ... this project (I cannot call it a film). It is not worth your time. Do not even rent it thinking "it can't be as bad as all that." It *is* that bad. I promise you. Acting? bad. Directing? bad. Writing? there is no single word that can sum up the awful, pitiful atrocity that is the script to this miserable work. It's so bad, it made me dislike the first film; it's so bad, it makes the other Highlander sequels look good; it's so bad, that to this day I avoid other films by the same writer and director. It is THAT BAD.
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