What makes it different from others?

Masterful Movie

A very feeble attempt at affirmatie action

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

It's been a while since I saw "Highlander", TV series. Lately I watched it again on YouTube, and I can't say I was too much impressed. Despite its original plot, show just doesn't get over being another "I'll kick your butt, bastard" plank. Yeah, I know it was made for teenagers, but still...The show is lame on everything - especially lighting and camera work. Lighting is always flat, sometimes even became grain (which is look disastrous), cameramen is unsure what they are filming, CGA effects either lame, either same. Episodes that were shot in Canada are a little bit more accurate, but that's it.First two seasons are stupid as far, as you can get with screen writing. Dull dialogues, provided by bad actors (everybody besides Elizabet Grasen and Jim Byrnes). Methos is awful - who was responsible on casting, anyway? Plot is almost always the same. Bad guy comes, Highlander wonders if he should to take his head off, and eventually does. Nobody ever thought of showing us Mcleod merging in modern society or trying to explain, how does he do it. No, it have to stay "You and me, right now!" No fantasy at all.OK, I can speak for a long time, but that's enough. I don't know why this show held on for so long. It should be over after two seasons tops. If you not teenager, and you over twenty, watch some episodes of season 4, and then quit watch it at all. I can give 5 stars from ten, and it's more than it deserves.

This has to be one of the best made shows EVER on television. They don't make shows like this one anymore. They tried to extend the show with Highlander the Raven with Amanda as the lead character. She wasn't cut out for it. The scripts for this original series with Duncan Macleod were great, and they only got better after the 1st season. The flashbacks are remarkable, putting us in many scenes through Duncan's 400 year history, and some of the histories of other immortals he knows, including Methos from a 5000 year standpoint. To be honest, i wish they would have made the extended series with Methos instead of Amanda, people would have thousands of years of world history to choose where to put him and when to put him. I wish they made more, and i hope the new movie is more like the show. Lets bring it back :)

This series is based on the movie of the same name, although the main character is Duncan MacLeod, Conner MacLeod's cousin. It is expertly told through well planned flashbacks. The plot lines were always engaging, and the special effects were marvelous. One of the greatest thing about the show was the music.The multi-talented cast is great. Adrian Paul is perfect for the part of Duncan, giving a likability to the character. Jim Byrnes plays Joe Dawson, Duncan's "watcher" (a mortal who knows about the immortals and records their action) and friend is a talented musician who wrote much of the music you hear in the background. Peter Wingfield play Methos, the oldest living Immortal, whose past is shrouded in mystery. Alexandra Vandernoot plays Duncan's love interest, Tesse Noel. And rounding out the main cast is Stan Kirsch as Ritchie Ryan, a young punk whom Duncan takes under his wings. We later find out that Ritchie is an immortal, too.There is a heart to this series that makes it a joy to watch. You believe the camaraderie that develops between these very different people. You share their laughter, like when Duncan's friend, Amanda (Liz Gracen) cons him into a museum theft. and their tears**Spoiler** Like in the episode where Tesse dies. Oh, and getting back to the music, I will never hear the song "Dust in the Wind" by Kansas again without crying. They used it to show Duncan trying to cope with the loss of Tesse.Any serious sci-fi buff needs to watch this series, and, if you are like me, you will watch it over and over and over....

..would have to be the series. Most definitely eliminate the movies past the first one, as it's been said; they are really awful.This series was great, espessialy if you like the premise of massive sword fights and stories that span quite a few eras of time, as well as the occasional dark overtones of things not working out as you would suspect they should; the heros are never really safe, with the excetpion of the main star.OK, now the complaints, and there are many. While the background and concept are pretty facinating, as are some of the enemies at times, there's a number of details you should note before you wonder on the good stuff:A) The first season, first episode excluded (Who can resist the guy infamous for Night Court's Bull doing a Kurgan impression?), is very black and white, and very overly action oriented. You have the annoying kid, a love interest that can't act, a main character that not only can't act (I disagree he's a better actor than Lambert, though IMO they're both 2nd rate!), but is effectively potrayed as such an uber-badass he should be known as the Rambolander. Nearing the end of the first season, however, things really start to take route and stay there until aproximately the 5th, when they definitely run out of ideas and things go straight downhill.B) As mentinoed above, the main character can't act. The inital love interest can't act. I'm not talking "We're bad actors" but occasional "Oh my God, I'm cringing" bad. The support actors are usually of much higher caliber than the main actors however, and often supply really good, solid opponents-of-the-week (tm) - they often are the most interesting thing in an episode.C) Notably, the "kid" can't act, either, but I don't blame him too much; his role is incredibly stupid. However, once an event happens at the end of the first season, he turns into an angry badass, and is suddenly a cool character; he's no longer even a real good guy anymore, but a grey-type, that's overall thought as good but with a serious bad attitude on the side. He leaves the series right about the downfall, at this point.D) Last but not least, it seems every episode in the first season must introduce another cringe-inducing "Random person says something about living forever while the Immortal they're talking to knowingly looks on, the only one in on the joke" scene. The first season you feel like your watching something like Renegade, with swords. Trust me, it gets better.E) A non-negative point I must end on is Methos. Probably the most interesting character, and cool actor, in the series. 5,000 years old but not at all acting like you'd expect (Somehow I'd pictured them either pulling a 'great wisdom' thing or a 'Yoda wannabe'), Methos honestly could have supported what would have been a superior spin-off, though he's not technically a highlander (well, by any stretch of the word.) The fact he was no do-gooder, usually only doing good to either help himself or just tagging along with friends, made him cool in and of itsself. Unfortunatly, they gave the spin-off (VERY short lived) to 'Raven.' Leading to my FINAL point..F) Raven. She's the trying-too-hard-to-be-cute thief. She's completely retarded, and did not deserve a spin-off! Brief summery: She cheats in duals. She can't swordfight. She lost fights constantly in the series. She needs to be saved every five minutes. She always has a stupid idea that pans to be wrong. Did I mention she's also extremely annoying?