Highlander: The Final Dimension (1995)

just watch it!

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

*SPOILERS* Highlander III: The Sorcerer (1994) is a poor copycat movie of the first one in the franchise. This is a far superior film to Highlander II but it is really a copy of the first one. ... It really feels as if the Highlander story has no more to give us but that would be very wrong. It used to be my second favorite film in the franchise but not anymore!! Christopher Lambert returns as Connor MacLeod as the protagonist who has to face against a new dangerous and powerful enemy; An extremely powerful sorcerer known as Kane (Mario Van Peebles) who threatens to win the fabled "Prize" in order to gain world domination by eliminating Macleod.Plot: Deceived that he had won the Prize, Connor MacLeod awakens from a peaceful life when an entombed immortal magician comes seeking the Highlander.This movie has a tons of problems while people are trashing Highlander II: The Quickening idiots! You give this hack job of a movie a better rating than Highlander 2: Renegade Version?! This is a joke. Highlander 3 is at its best when it's ripping off the first film and at its worst when it tries to add in sub-plots that go no-where.Connor MacLeod has suddenly a son? Really? Are you people that stupid! The immortals can't have kids! Why would MacLeod adopt a son is stupid and ridicules! Brenda is suddenly killed in this movie with a weird explanation! Kane The Sorcerer (Mario Van Peebles) want's to win the fabled "Prize" in order to gain world domination. Haven't we saw that in the first movie when the Kurgan wanted to win the "Prize" by eliminating MacLeod?!Lt. John Stenn (Martin Neufeld) says the dialogues like that he was in the first movie, when in fact the character was never mentioned or seen in the first movie!!!!! The character Lt. John Stenn miraculously disappears from the movie without any explanation!Kane The Sorcerer (Mario Van Peebles) kidnaps MacLeod's fake son ( Gabriel Kakon) and uses him as bait by playing the same trick with a car that The Kurgan played on Brenda by kidnapping her and dragging her in the car and hitting people on the street. I saw that scene in the first movie already gosh! Kane The Sorcerer (Mario Van Peebles) has sex with a prostitute, haven't we already see that in the first movie? The end of a sword fight the battle in the power plant when we see the sword battle between MacLeod and Kane, during the battle you can see a stuntman for Christopher Lambert doing the sword fights which the fight is a fake! Why is doing a stuntman all the work for Christopher Lambert? Couldn't he do it his stunts him self, like he did in the second one?! Why this movie has so many titles? It is stupid! The Sorcerer, The Magician, The Final Dimension and The Final Conflict?! That is beyond stupid! Like producers didn't know what title they should use for this movie! Geesh! What is so epic about this movie than we saw in the first two movies? I think with the power plant this movie tried to rip off Terminator 2 and I Come in Peace (1990)! This movie is rated PG-13 not R, the first two movies a rated R not PG-13 you morons! I am sorry, but this is a terrible awful film! The only thing I liked in this movie is the song Bonny Portmore by Loreena McKennitt. It tried to follow the story the of the first film which it ruined with coping it! I liked that the film was also shot in Castle Tioran, Lochaber, Highland, Scotland, UK that is the only thing I liked. I also like MacLeod making his own sword and the song Bonny Portmore is played by Loreena McKennitt that was epic. There are almost only three things I liked about this movie.I also liked Highlander entering abandoned power plant for the final battle I like that and I like the music score playing during the fight. that is all. The rating is F 1/10 for me I am not reviewing Endgame and The Source they both suck and they are even worst than this one! 1/10 Score: F Studio: Miramax Films Starring: Christopher Lambert, Mario Van Peebles, Deborah Unger, Mako Director: Andrew Morahan Producer: Claude Léger Screenplay: Paul Ohl René Manzor, Brad Mirman Story by Brad Mirman William N. Panzer Rated: PG-13 Running Time: 1 Hr. 39 Mins. Budget: $26.000.000 Box Office: $36,800,000

If you are sitting down to watch Highlander 3, I will assume you have already watched at least one of the previous films and know what to expect.If for some reason this is your first Highlander film then. Welcome, pull up a chair, grab some popcorn, a tasty beverage and prepare yourself for a poor film, poorly written, poorly acted and full of effects that are far from special.The best part of the film is the guy who has been trapped in a cave for 400 years but has no problem living in the world of 1994. Make a list of the things he does in 90's New York with no problem despite being from 16th century Japan.This film might have been good if it was trimmed down and turned into an episode of the Highlander TV show but then again, maybe not.Featured on Episode 58 of The Emerald Reprobates Podcast

After all the hate for the second one, I suppose they just didn't want to take risks anymore. This sequel just screams mediocre. There's some cool stuff happening here and there, but all of it has been done already in the original. They even duplicated whole scenes just to be on the safe side. I really do wonder why "Highlander" ever bothered to have sequels in the first place, I know producers enjoy money but this story has been over for some time. So Highlander is at it again, fighting evil and killing immortals by cutting of their heads. If you can kill them, why the hell do they call them immortals? Either way, the action is quite nicely done, the fights have a nice choreography to them, the acting is just the right kind of bad. It stops there, because these good points don't really make for an entertaining movie. You'd think so but no. It's actually quite boring because this story is uninteresting as hell. So predictable, it's insane. Only real good part is the introduction, it pretty much sinks like a brick from there.

...but it is so bad, it is fun to watch in a way. It is so terrible that I have a hard time mentioning it. Perhaps it was the grainy film that made the 1985 original with Clancy Brown (The Kergan) so much better. Some movies require a sequel, or maybe two, while others like "Highlander" require--and demand--none at all. "Highlander III" however is not nearly as bad as "Highlander II-The Quickening", which I feel like a goofball for having watched in the theater on its opening Friday night, in which "We're gonna be okay" uttered by MacCleod garnered instant and thunderous Boos from the college crowd. By the time we had managed to get to the end of this mishmashed misdirected glob of a movie, totally a discredit to the original "Highlander" the screen was totally bombarded by soda cups, popcorn and half-eaten candy bars.Actually, "Highlander III" like the second sequel serves as excellent training for film students on the why's and how's a sequel should not be made. Shortly after MacCleod's 'reawakening' and within moments after arriving in New York, he is greeted by a carful of thugs which conveniently show up and shoot him--a wonderful advertisement for why we should not want to visit New York--if all tourists and guests to this fine city would be greeted in the same horrific manner.Directors and producers: let sleeping dogs lay. Don't awaken a sleeping giant that is much more of a "Godzilla" than a "Lord of the Rings." Stop trying so hard to get the Oscar, and just stick to the basics of good film making. "Highlander III" illustrates once again why some movies should never have existed. What a waste of money and talent!