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Highlander: Endgame (2000)
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Reviews Counted:52
Fresh:6
Rotten:46
Average Rating:3.3/10
Consensus: The fourth and supposedly last Highlander movie is a confusing mess, complete with bad acting and dialogue.
Runtime: 1 hr 41 mins
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Synopsis: The sword-wielding immortals are back--Connor MacLeod (Christopher Lambert) from HIGHLANDER and Duncan MacLeod (Adrian Paul) from television's HIGHLANDER series. In HIGHLANDER: ENDGAME, the two... The sword-wielding immortals are back--Connor MacLeod (Christopher Lambert) from HIGHLANDER and Duncan MacLeod (Adrian Paul) from television's HIGHLANDER series. In HIGHLANDER: ENDGAME, the two MacLeods do battle across time and space (from 15th century Scotland to present-day New York). Their foe is the evil, ultra-powerful Jacob Kell (Bruce Payne). Kell's immortal purpose is to make Connor's immortal life miserable--Kell was responsible for the death of Connor's mother and his wife, Heather. Kell is assisted by Kate (Lisa Barbuscia)--she seeks revenge on Duncan for giving her no choice about becoming an immortal. The VHS and DVD releases feature an extended new cut of the film. [More]
Starring: Christopher Lambert, Adrian Paul, Bruce Payne, Donnie Yen
Starring: Christopher Lambert, Adrian Paul, Bruce Payne, Donnie Yen, Edge, Lisa Barbuscia, Ian Paul Cassidy, Jim Byrnes
Director: Douglas Aarniokoski
Director: Douglas Aarniokoski
Screenwriter: Joel Soisson, Gregory Widen, Eric Bernt
Producer: Peter S. Davis, William N. Panzer
Reviews for Highlander: Endgame
Frequent flashbacks, equal parts soap opera and historical fashion show, explicate the complicated relationships between Kell, Faith and the MacLeods.
This is the last one in this long dead franchise...unless they do something stupid.
...do not under any circumstances rent this if you've never seen the Highlander TV series.
Thanks to its motley collection of story elements, settings, and acting styles, leaving this film is like getting off an amusement park ride you never wanted on in the first place.
Highlander: Endgame looks sensational, moves like lightning. But its script (by Joel Soisson) makes no pretense about being logical or even comprehensible.
Highlander: Endgame is truer to the original than the sequels, but it plays more like a television program than a theatrical release, which will matter little to the die-hard fans.
Och, lads and lassies, on the souls of our shape-shifting Gaelic forebears, do not enter unwarned into that dark cave of confusion known as Highlander: Endgame.
The special effects are cheap and not at all impressive. For a series that relies heavily on sword fighting, it too is surprisingly second-rate.
Judging by what writer Joel Soisson has come up with here, the franchise is already dead in the water.
It quickly goes astray with fight scenes laden with too many bullets, too many explosions, too many sparks, lightning bolts and weird lights -- and too many impalings.
The dialogue is cheesy, and the story's decapitated long before any character's noggin goes flyin'.
Personally, I enjoyed it about the way I enjoyed the Mortal Kombat movies, meaning that its genuine fun and its unintentionally ridiculous moments are roughly in balance.
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