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Summary: Good if you like bad movies
Review: It amuses me immensely that the first Highlander, which was a wonderful movie, was written by a college student and this lame sequel was done by supposed professionals. I think everyone pretty much knows by now that this movie completely and totally butchered the first movie so I won't go into that in any detail. But if you happen to be one of the very fortunate people who haven't seen this movie, I'll just tell you not to watch it unless you just love to laugh at bad movies. And the Renegade version isn't any better than this one so don't bother with that one either, unless of course, you just like to laugh at bad movies.
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Summary: sequels
Review: When I first seen this movie on VHS nearly 9 years ago, I thought it was good, but too short (with it only 90 minutes back then). The Renegade Version on DVD not only shows the same scenes from the theatrical version, but this special edition adds 19 minutes of extra footage that was never shown. I thought the storyline was kinda confusing, but it's still pretty entertaining. Christopher Lambert is good in this film, but James Bond himself, Sean Connery nearly stole the whole show on the brief scenes he had.
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Summary: What a horrible movie...
Review: Let me say this before anything else...I love Sean Connery, I love Christopher Lambert...the "original" "Highlander" is one of my favorite movies ever...why --> the acting, the plot, the characters...it was wonderful.
Since "H 2" came out, I avoided it, I had read that it made no sense, that it was not a worthy sequel to the original.
Boy, do I wish I continued to avoid it.
How could you go wrong with Connery, Lambert and Michael Ironsides, who I loved in "Starship Troopers" & "Total Recall."
Ok...the movie starts with Lambert's now-mortal character Conner MacLoud(after his winning of "The Prize" at the end of "H")helping devise a shield over the entire planet that will prevent the sun's harmful radiation from polluting the world...with the loss of the natural ozone layer...but things go wrong...this shield normalizes the world-wide weather at a humid 97 degrees and the earth slowly turns into an ugly savage place, in the interim, Conner grows into an old man....OK fine..I can deal with this...but this is where the plot goes totally haywire...we are shown how over 500 years (evidently before any of the events of the first movie) Conner and Sean Connery's Ramirez try to engage in a revolt on the distant Planet Zeist, they are captured by Ironside's General Kitana...but rather than be killed the two of them are sent to Earth to be immortal and to fight for the "Prize" and then when only one remains they can either remain as mortals on Earth or come back to Zeist and fight Kitana again...I'm sorry but this makes absolutely no sense....why not kill them in the first place, rather than give your enemies the opprotunity to come back sometime in the future and fight you again...and then MacLoud and Ramirez get sent to Earth...but in the first movie, MacLoud believes he is the leader of the Clan MacLoud in Scotland...its not until after he meets Ramirez that his destiny of fighting for the "Prize" is revealed to him...
Back to "H 2" on present day (??) Planet Zeist, Kitana decides, for some untold reason, to send a couple of assassins to kill MacLoud on Earth, why?? who knows...anyway, MacLoud is somehow able to kill these two guys and again somehow, he is regenerated back to youth and immortal again...they tried to explain it in the movie, but I got more confused..
Oh and let's not forget that before their capture on Zeist, MacLoud and Ramirez engaged in some kind of magical ceremony named the "Quickening" in which, if MacLoud ever needed help from Ramirez, to only speak his name and he would come to him. Thus the name of the movie, but is this "Quickening" different from the "Quickening" in the first movie, where Ramirez is teaching MacLoud how to tap into the lifeforce and heartbeat of the elk and he exuberantly runs around as if he were the elk.
Also, I can understand that MacLoud probably needed some help fighting off the two Zeist goons, but didn't he need MORE help at the end of the first movie?? Why didn't he call for Ramirez then?
I am just totally confused by this plot.
Didn't anyone read through it and say..."Hey, this makes no sense.."
This was awful...minimal action, bad acting, stupid script, ridiculous plot construction...horrible...
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Summary: This [stinks]
Review: Everything with this movie [stinks]...(Not even Sean Connery is good), The love scene between the girl and macleod is unneccesary.
The worst movie ever!
DONT BUY IT!!!!!!!
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Summary: Boy this really was terrible .....
Review: I have seen all of the Highlander series movies. This one is a head above the rest when it comes to stinking up the screen. It's hard to believe that a great actor like Sean Connery associated himself with this garbage. But even with Connery, this movie lacks any kind of acting. Some of the [stuff] they try to pull with this storyline is unbelievable even by sci-fi film standards.
And did I mention the plot of this movie? Probably not because I couldn't find one to mention.
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Summary: The worst movie in history
Review: Actually, I exaggerate slightly; if you have never seen the original, then this will merely be a spectacularly AWFUL film. If, however, you are a fan of the first movie... Oh the horror, the horror!This film makes no kind of sense. Not only does the legion of continuity errors make it flatly IMPOSSIBLE to reconcile this movie with the one that came before it; the numerous lapses in common sense are absolutely stupefying. How, for example, could Ramirez and McLeod be aliens, on their home planet of Zeist, and still be named Ramirez and McLeod? How is it that they did not recognize each other when they met on earth in the first movie, and yet had supposedly been close comrades before that on their home planet Zeist? How does an atmospheric shield cause technology and pop culture both to regress to the 1950s? Why are people driving 57 Chevy's and flying in DC3s? Holy cow! words truly fail me when I attempt to explain how utterly stupid this film was. Sean Connery joins the not so exalted ranks of paycheck collectors in this movie. Didn't anyone ever tell him he was rich and successful enough already that he didn't NEED to appear in wretched offal of this sort? If you are a fan of the original Highlander, and have not yet seen this movie, do yourself the greatest favor of your life, and avoid this movie as you would avoid an AIDS infected syringe. It is THAT bad!
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Summary: Garbage
Review: This movie was garbage. It was stupid, horrible, moronic,... I hate that a talented actor like Sean Connery was involved in this crap. What a horrible movie. If you liked the first one... don't see this garbage. Virginia Madsen could not save it by getting naked and revealing her beautiful body (which I must also state was so stupid. She just sees this horrible actor Christopher Lambert appear out of nowhere on the street and is compelled to screw him against a brick wall even though she has never seen him before and they do not even speak). This movie is so bad Ed Wood should be rolling over in his grave. HORRIBLE!!!
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Summary: Connor MacLeod in a Sophomore Slump
Review: "Oh No....Not Again" That quote by Connor MacLeod (and a certain hitch-hiking Douglas Adams) is what Highlander fans said when "Highlander 2: The Quickening" was originally released in the theatres. You see the Director (Russell Malcahy) and Producers (Bill Panzer & Peter Davis) for some stupid reason were not given "final cut" for this film, As a result the theatre version of Highlander 2 left fans of the Highlander Mythos confused and screaming "Huh?". Thus the need for the "Renegade Version". This whole situation confused me when I first noticed two different versions on VHS. But after watching the DVD and reading about the corrections and re-editing I understood. The plot as it stands now. Christopher Lambert returns as Connor MacLeod and Sean Connery Returns as Ramirez, Virginia Madsen plays the love interest Louise Marcus, and Michael Ironside as Katana does what he does best, playing the bad guy. The year is 2024 Connor is now an old man, who 25 years ago because of a severely damaged ozone layer, helped create an electromagnetic shield that protects the Earth from ultraviolet radiation. Now there is some question as to the necessity of the shield. That plot device I could have done without. Moving along, in some re-edited footage it's explained that the race that the Immortals are a part of are from a very long time ago (the original theatre version made them aliens from the planet Zeist) and as a form of punishment banish those of their number who are inflicted with Immortality to the future where they must battle each other. To make a long story short Katana follows MacLeod into the future etc... etc... It seems that Connery has most of the comical scenes, from Hamlet to his first airplane ride. OK now what I liked and didn't like. I said before I didn't like the plot point of the radiation shield, I think it was just an excuse to make some scenes very dark. It does, however get Louise involved in the whole mess, it's a rather major point I guess, oh well. Since this DVD was released as a Republic Pictures "WIDESCREEN" version it has the THX digital sound cool, and very good if often dark picture. The booklet is a godsend concerning the reasons for this "Renegade" Version, Instead of a trailer there is a behind-the-scenes featurette, both good and bad. Audio commentary by the Director and Producers, OK. Choice of English or Spanish, cool. A turbo "Slide Show" with photos, bios, background info. etc...Bad. A cheesy 9 Chapter scene search, fortunately by using the scene list in the booklet you can enter individual scenes remotely, if your DVD player/remote is so equiped. So when all is said and done, ten out of ten for style but minus several billion for bad packaging or in our star system I give "Highlander 2: Renegade Version" a 3 for picture and a 5 for sound.
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Summary: This movie was excellent!
Review: This movie was excellent! A must for any Highlander fan!
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Summary: There Can Be Only One...
Review: And that ONE was the original Highlander film. This version, the Quickening, which I saw originally in the theatre hasn't improved even with the extra cut. It should have been cut from someone's production budget. It is a totally senseless film which should never had been made, much less any of the other sequels. Let's think about some obvious problems between this film, the original and later sequels. 1) the original film deals with human beings who are born immortal and must fight to the death with other "Immortals" to gain the knowledge and wisdom of the ages and more importantly mortality - a regular human existence, hence the phrase: "there can be only one," which eventually Conan MacLeod became. 2) the sequel - (the quickening) It is now 1999, earth is decimated from ozone depletion and an aged Conan MacLeod is no longer the last of his kind when two fellow breathren are dispatched from the planet Zeist to kill him. Zeist??? Zeist??? Where did that come from? Yes all of a sudden Immortals come from a distant galaxy far far away, oh sorry that's another movie. Conan fortunately kills these two bad Immortals and all of a sudden he's young and Immortal again! Wait a minute remember I told you in the first film, Conan became a regular joe after killing Rogan, the second to last of his kind. You see the dilemma, after all, the inhabitants of Zeist still existed or else they couldn't have sent anyone to kill Conan. OOPS, it seems Conan is not the last of his kind after all! But then how could he have become mortal after killing the last of his kind and then suddenly became immortal again? Zeist was teaming with life and Immortals so what's going on here? In the theatre when I first saw this sequel, I just kept saying to myself "OH... MY... GOD" 3) Third Sequel, okay, here we go again. This was the Highlander movie sequel with Mario Van Peebles that just totally dismissed the second film as if it had never been made. But there's still a problem because in the 3rd film Conan (Lambert), even though during all this time, he has killed every other immortal and has won the prize and is now mortal, Mario (an evil Immortal) along with two other evil Immortals have been frozen in ice. So how could Conan have become mortal by killing the last of his kind with these three Immortal Popcycles still technically in existence? I mean just because they're frozen, in suspended animation, does that mean they don't count in the grand scheme of things in the Universe? To give the Quickening one star is way too much of a rating and also too much for any of the other sequels, even the one including that wannabe Immortal from the TV series. Don't get me started on the stupidity of that movie! Buy the original movie and forget about all the other films. "There can be only one!"
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