comps-784-38265 I really enjoyed the original 'Highlander' it was different for it's time, unique and certainly not a run of the mill story. Classic lines like 'I am Conan Mcloud of the clan Mcloud and I am immortal" etc. I remember waiting with eager anticipation for the release of Highlander 2 and wondering what they would do to continue the story. What little I remember of the highly forgettable Highlander 2, was the howls of derision at "Conan Mcloud of the clan Mcloud from the planet zeis" (or some such)Whoever wrote this script was a complete idiot who probably had never even watched the first film. This film was just too stupid for words.

dridrik The filmmakers called this a sequel, but it is in reality an entirely different story, with an entirely different premise. In the first movie the immortals were Earth men born in different time periods and presumably created by some genetic mutation, but here they are aliens. All the ethnicity present in the first movie is discarded, for example, Ramirez (aka Spanish Peacock) loses all his Spanicity, and along with the ex-Scot he is now a Zeistian...

Ruairidh MacVeigh I've heard so much about the wretchedness of this movie, and also because I'm a huge fan of the original, I really had to sit down and watch this apparently hilariously bad movie. So, I sat down, watched it, and found myself laughing my socks off the whole way through! This movie is just so bad on so many levels, and boggles the mind so many times, you really can't help but laugh. I mean, was this meant to be an action movie? Because the decisions made in the practically non-existent story and the almost impossible events that occur will leave you in stitches!So what's the muffin? In 1994 the Ozone layer is fading, and thus a mortal Connor MacLeod comes up with a shield that will block out the sun and thus save the planet, at the expense of the fact that it would cause ecological devastation and wipe out humanity in many other ways, but whatever. Anyway, apparently the Immortals from the last movie weren't just a select few for an unknown reason, no, no, they were aliens, banished from the Planet Zeist 5,000 years earlier to earth and granted immortality as punishment(?!) Hey, if that's punishment, sign me up for more!Anyway, because the evildoer who runs Zeist named General Katana (imaginative name if ever there was one) is apparently bored and he decides 5,000 years after MacLeod left the planet that he should now kill him, and thus teams up with the evil leader of the Planetary Shield to hunt down and destroy MacLeod.So, what specifically is wrong with this movie? Well, apart from the fact that it takes everything established in the previous movie and turns it on its head is a bad start. The number of gaping plot holes in this movie would be enough to sink Greenland, for example, how calling someone's name can make them magically appear from the dead? What on earth happened there?!But it get's worse, the acting is as hokey as you could possibly get, the special effects are laughably fake, the fight choreography isn't as good as the original, the villain, and for that matter any of the other characters, have nothing to make them interesting, and basically, if you happened to watch this movie first rather than the original movie, you wouldn't know who any of these characters are because there is little to no reference to the original. The idea of a sequel is to build on the previous movie with at least some reference to it so as to enhance the story, but this one appears to be made up as it goes!Overall, it's a jumbled mess, but incredibly funny to watch. I was just astounded the first time I saw this as to how wrong they could possibly make this film! I totally recommend you watch this film if you're in the mood for a laugh, especially if you've seen the previous film, because like myself you'll probably be giggling till your sides hurt!

adrianogt4 So, I didn't enjoy the first movie very much but it was not so bad at all. The first had a beginning and an end, I mean there was not a need to create a sequel at all. The movie begins with a polluted future where Highlander lives with some kinds of flashbacks about him and Ramirez. So you can easily understand the plot; he is a forgotten hero and he now lives with the good memories but suddenly he has the chance to save the mankind again..well so innovative! Probably at the beginning (after 10 minutes) there is no more connection with the Scottish medieval world and they begin to talk about another planet where all the immortals come from..so you think are we talking about Superman? Then suddenly you see some cyberpunks who have a Back to the Future style flying skateboards..so you realize that the producers ran out of ideas before even starting the filming of the movie. At the end we can admire a "wonderful" fight scene who you can easily link to Star Wars and at the end you realize that the whole film is a 90s B-Movie with a very sterile plot. But the worst thing of this movie is absolutely Highlander shooting with an automatic rifle when all the previous movie was about swords.The only positive feedback was probably Sean Connery portraying a funny Ramirez making him the only smart and not predictable character of the movie with a stunning performance by one of the best actors in the world of cinema.