Highlander - Endgame (DVD)

Highlander: Endgame played on TV tonight. I'd not watched it since its theatrical release. Remembered it wasn't great, but I was wrong. It is infact an utter crapfest. As a Highlander fan I really wanted to like this film. I watched about half the episodes of the TV series. I'd also watched the three motion pictures. Let me rephrase that... I watched Part 2 and 3 get progressively worse anyway. I thought maybe this last installment would redeem the franchise. The main movie character joined with the main TV series character. What could go wrong? Uh, everything. I wouldn't be lying to say I wanted to cut my own head off while watching ...

Connor MacLeod was born in the highlands of Scotland in 1518. After being killed during a clan war with the Clan Fraser, at the hands of a mysterious stranger, he miraculously comes back to life and is kicked out of his clan under the belief that he is possessed by the devil. Duncan MacLeod is also a member of Clan MacLeod, but was born in 1592. Duncan goes through a very similar (in fact, nearly identical) ordeal as Connor, during another clan war with Clan Campbell. Both men are in fact immortals, a race that has been on Earth throughout the ages and both men are known as The Highlander. Most Immortals spend their long-lived lives within ‘The ...

The end yet again!, another film great, followed by a number of not so great sequels. For the people in the UK, you may not know about this one because Highlander- Endgame wasn?t released at the cinema's here, a straight to video job, usually this type of occurrence means only one thing: a load of rubbish, so is this worth the XXX words op', we shall see.... ~~Highlander~~ The first film came out sometime in 1985, and as far as I know was a great hit, well I certainly loved it. Apart from being fairly original, it had all the classic great ingredients, great action, good plot, sword fighting (there's something about sword fighting, take Star ...