Thanks for the memories!

How sad is this?

Fantastic!

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

There seems to be quite alot of hate for this movies on here. The biggest issue seems to be that its not a rehash of the first movie which seems to be what some people were expecting. They wanted another highlander set in Scotland amongst the glens. However that story had run its course and the only logical progression for an immortal was to set the movie in the future. The plot is focused on a cyberpunk styled future where the planets protective ozone layer is diminished and only survives due to a shield developed by the Highlander, who is now an old man as he is now affected by ageing. We now learn that he was from another world and when inhabitants from his old home arrive to kill him his immortal powers return. This movie shares some of the same music and themes as the first which if you allow yourself to get over the disappointment that this isn't a clone of the first movie, you may well find an enjoyable sequel. Michael Ironside is one of the best Hollywood villains ever and is a suitable replacement for the Kurgan. John C. McGinley plays the role of the slimy corporate weasel to perfection and of course we have Christopher Lambert as MacLeod, as good as he was in the original. As for the Scottish element, we see Sean Connery being fitted for a suit in Edinburgh while drinking whisky, cant get much more Scottish than that? Franchises have to evolve to survive, and this sequel is an evolution of the original story. Is it a bad movie? In my opinion no, its fun, has a great cast. great effects, moves fast and has enough of the spirit of the original to keep may fans of the original happy. What its not is a carbon copy of the original and it seems for some that is its biggest crime. The "I don't like change" argument isn't a valid reason to hate a great movie.

Highlander 2: The Quickening (1991)Plot In A Paragraph: In the future, Connor MacLeod (Christopher Lambert) must prevent the destruction of Earth under an anti-ozone shield.With literally three hours to waste, I decided to watch both versions (theatrical and renegade) back to back.In both versions, it's all style over substance. It's produced with a decent budget but the action was all visual effects and mindless violence. After The Hunt For Red October, Connery didn't need to wait to long to get his ponytail. Since apparently your hair still grows in the after life, Despite biting the dust in the first movie, Connery is back. "When you need me, you only have to call my name" Juan Sanchez Villa-Lobos Ramirez is a hell of a name to tell if you were in a tricky spot. Luckily simply "Ramirez" worked.Apart from James Bond, Ramirez is the only other character Sean Connery has played in more than one film. He received 3.5 million dollars for nine days of filming (which amounts to about 10 mins screen time). Connery used all the money as donations for charitable causes. Did he take this one for the money?? At least he did some good with it if he did. There are too many differences in the two versions to list, scenes are cut and changed around, dialogue is changed or missing, but in both versions, the plot is pretty much a muddled mess, there are a lot of continuity errors and most of the supporting cast are awful (Especially following on from watching The Russia House which was filled with wonderful performances). Virginia Madsen is gorgeous, but her character is annoying and her constant costume changes (every scene) are a distraction. Michael Ironside (whilst a decent actor) seems to be doing an awful impression of Kurgan from the first movie, however he is nowhere near as intimidating as Clancy Brown. John C McGinley (an actor I like) is awful and how on earth did Jerry The Cab Driver ever get cast in a movie?? In the Renegade version the end fight is split in to two scenes about 30 mins apart, making the end fight a tad anti climactic and over too soon!! Connery's scenes are more spread out too in this version too, to make it look like he is in it more. The airplane scene is split into separate parts for example. Sadly my favourite line of dialogue of his is missing in The Renegade VersionMaCloud "It sounds like magic" Ramires "Well it is..... hmmm kind of"Referencing the Queen song A Kind Of Magic wrote for the first movie. Highlander 2 grossed $15 million at the domestic box office to end 1991 as 73rd highest grossing movie of the year.

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.

This movie is terrible. It has absolutely no redeeming features at all. The movie makes no attempts to have any connection at all with the first, even while having the same actors and in the case of Sean Connery, the same wardrobe. This film is one of the laziest films ever conceived, not just in terms of a sequel, but as a film in general. I bought this movie thinking it was the first movie (the sticker for the 2 for $20 was on the 2 and I was kind of in a rush) and I must say, this was one of the most disappointing lumps of crap I have ever watched, not that the first movie is a masterpiece but it did have nostalgic value. Safe to say, I did not request a refund due to my own negligence to read the back of the case, and it has never been viewed again. These are films that are so bad, that they are amazingly fun to watch, The Room, HardRock Zombies, Blacula, this is not one of those movies. After watching this movie, it's safe to say that Christopher Lambert is one of the worst actors to have ever lived, and Sean Connery obviously got his paycheck and never looked at this lump of crap franchise again. The only thing that could've made this movie worse, would be if it was directed by Joel Schumacher.