Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Connor Macleod is back, and this time he's brought the English bloke from the TV series with him. When his friend Rachel is killed, he gets all misty, and goes to a place called The Sanctury, which is like The Colony from Double Team.Then the confusion kicks in, which is just what you'd expect from a Highlander movie. You see, Lambert killed Bruce Paynes dad, so Payne has taken his time getting revenge, and now wants it. He has a few hench men, and Paul is along for the ride, because the show was quite successful.Immortals are not supposed to age, but what really distracts you from the film is how different Lambert looks in this dreadful movie.It's not the fact that he's aged, it all happens to us, but its the fact that he looks like he has a rare skin condition, and it really takes you away from the paper thin narrative.If you've seen Bruce Payne in any other film, you know that he is a pantomime villain, but he is the best thing in this, and really lifts the film whenever he's in it.Paul is in it for no other reason than to fight Lambert, and for both Highlander completists, this is something big.For everyone else though, its a really poor sequel to an average film, with trashy effects.At least Highlander 2 was funny....

I was rooting for „Highlander: Endgame", despite having witnessed the steady decline of the franchise ever since the first movie: for one, the movie reunited both Connor and Duncan MacLeod (who, in the TV-series, had become a worthy replacement for Christopher Lambert). For the other: the film stars Bruce Payne as villainous immortal and Payne remains one of my favourite movie-villains since starring in "Passenger 57". Both points turned out as two of the films major flaws: Seeing Christopher Lambert return to his parade-role as immortal Connor MacLeod is a bit like seeing a relative, whom one hasn't seen in many years: it's good to see them again but in the back of your mind, you cannot help to notice how horribly they've aged. Indeed, all the make-up in Hollywood cannot hide Lamberts real age, making his forever young immortal less than convincing. It must be said that Lambert is able to mask the age-issue with a world-weary approach but his scenes remain awkward leaving, despite the double billing, Adrian Paul as real, even though typically uncharismatic protagonist.Bruce Payne's character, Jacob Krell, at times portrayed as some demonic, immortal anti-Christ-figure has potential but unfortunately the actor is given very little to work with: his character following the stereotypical "Highlander"-villain; Payne relies on his demonic stare but essentially, he's just repeating the same thing he's been doing in dozens of low-budget horror- and action-flicks over the last 20 years.Speaking about wasted potential: the story about Krell's posse, who they are and why they follow him, is never expanded upon. Nor is it clear why they sacrifice (or rather allow themselves to be slaughtered) themselves for Krell, only hinting that Krell may be some form of immortal Charles Manson.Where Kurgan in the original "Highlander" was often shown in retro-scenes (or at least hinting about his appearances in history), there's very little of that in "Endgame". Krell is shown in the medieval age, where he's "killed" by MacLeod and the next thing, he appears in the present. No flashbacks, no explanation of how Krell had spend the last centuries, just the presented fact that Krell is the most powerful because he's killed the highest number of immortals. Another wasted opportunity.Essentially, the movie is a blown up sequel to the "Highlander"-TV-series, which has been much criticized for breaking the canon of the original movie (female immortals, immortals fighting on holy ground, etc). Had this movie been made 15 years earlier (without the character Duncan MacLeod), focusing on Connor and Krell, the movie could have had a similar cult-status like the original "Highlander". Sadly, though it remains the second-best "Highlander" film to date – but only because of the level of awfulness of part two, three and five.In the end, despite all the films flaws, it was good to see the familiar faces in the familiar roles one final time and one could only hope that this movie would finally lay the "Highlander"-franchise to rest. Need I mention that "Highlander 5" followed as sure as tomorrow's sunrise?

Unfortunately the "Highlander" concept has been heavily tainted by multiple visions from a variety of people and a constant push from the money men to milk it for all it's worth. Each individual addition thus far, while reasonable in isolation managed to damage the overall reputation of this franchise and directly damage the quality of the original classic movie when the whole thing is considered together.Now what they have done with this fourth movie is created something that can't even stand in isolation and when put together with everything else tears it all to pieces, spits on it and throws it in the bin, just for the sake of giving this particular piece some feeling of importance.One of my biggest pet peeves with movie sequels is when the writers of the latest piece decide to essentially re-write the whole thing and ignore where others have taken us up until this point. For better or worse, we have been taken to a point and it is just arrogance to assume you can re-write it all better then those that have gone before, while it shows limited skill to not be able to work inside that framework. There are many ways they could have made a tie in between the TV series and all the movies work, but they chose to make this a partial reboot instead.The Critical mistake they made was to belittle the original film. No franchise should dismiss the reason that it is a franchise. Although it would still annoy me, they could have gotten away with the partial reboot, if they had just ignored the 2nd and 3rd movie. They even would have gotten away with not fully following on from the series. But they couldn't resist messing with the original to the point that they almost totally dismissed the events of film as meaningless and so it's no surprise that this has scored the low rating it has here on the IMDb.I watched the whole of the series as well as all the films and this movie fails to adequately fit in with any of it. One day I hope movie makers will learn that you either need to do a full reboot or get people capable of working with what they already have. Don't just let the new guys mess up everyone that went before them.

Duncan McCleod(Adrian Paul) searches (For eternity it feels like) for his brother Connor(Christopher Lambert) who has dropped out of the game, however when Jacob Kell(Bruce Payne) an evil immortal who has more quickenings than them, needs to be stopped, it's up to the McCleods to join forces to take him out and while I won't spoil the ending, we'll just say that it contradicts everything that came before it. Highlander Endgame was made I'm guessing for fans of the TV show while I never tuned in for the show (It was on USA network, after Silk Stalkings for goodness sake!) I figured this would be the best sequel since it had the most going for it. One it would tie up the conclusion of the TV show, it could work as a prequel to everything before and overall you would have at least a coherent sequel. Then came an ending that comes so out of nowhere you are left to ponder exactly how it could possibly work. The answer is, it doesn't. I understand Lambert is getting older but seriously how many Highlander fans can there be left by 2000 after the show was canceled for some time and the last movie was made six years before? It is of course some bright executive who thought, hey let's get Adrian Paul to take over this exhausted series since he doesn't cost as much as Lambert to hire and say let's completely contradict the series all together. I admit Lambert is no great actor but he is leaps and bounds far more charismatic than Adrian Paul and although thankfully we are spared another Lambert sex sequence, we are left to watch Paul interact with his girlfriend in the movie, in scenes so embarrassing, that had it gotten more press, this would have been a Razzie contender for worst performance of the year. Endgame despite being a very bad movie, is at least better than The Quickening but I say that if you really want a good movie about immortals, check out the original.* out of 4-(Bad)