krypton_son
The Highlander series has these problems and more, being first a film franchise that started well and then went suddenly sickeningly wrong, then a syndicated TV show, and now again a film property. Moreover, the underlying concept behind it all — a global race of immortals locked in combat since the beginning of time — lends itself so easily to story and backstory permutations that the Highlander mythos has become a huge, convoluted tapestry that only the most hardcore fans can follow. Highlander: Endgame makes a valiant effort at cleaning things up, presumably to hand the films over to Adrian Paul (star of the TV series, whose producers, Davis/Panzer Productions, are at the helm here), but in the end it's just too massive a job. Nice fight scenes, though.
FlashCallahan
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....
Fenris Fil
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.
DaRZA
Highlander 4 is what Highlander 2 should have been. It tries in its directing, its landscape-shots, its massive past scenes and so on to be like the first Highlander.The storyline playing "now" is not to discussed. It is for me being a huge fan of Highlander and liked the TV-show how the TV-Show-Characters are integrated to the "big"-screen-storyline. It worked quite well. At least - gunfights of immortals takes getting used to me :/.Its a big reunion of TV-Characters and Movie-Characters. Btw.: you need to see at least some TV-Episodes and the first Highlander to follow the plot a bit. Newbies to the Highlander-Thing won't be able to get a bit of the plot line and characters, because the movie assumes that you already know them. For others: go and see it :)The movie is about 90 min long and kinda hurries through the plot. Characters are not well drawn etc. another 10 - 15 minutes might have been giving the movie a better chance to get a little deeper into the characters and give the movie more depth.
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