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Highlander: Endgame

Highlander: Endgame (2000)

September. 01,2000
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4.6
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R
| Adventure Fantasy Action

Immortals Connor and Duncan Macleod join forces against a man from Connor's distant past in the highlands of Scotland, Kell, an immensely powerful immortal who leads an army of equally powerful and deadly immortal swordsmen and assassins. No immortal alive has been able to defeat Kell yet, and neither Connor nor Duncan are skilled enough themselves to take him on and live. The two of them eventually come to one inevitable conclusion; one of them must die so that the combined power of both the Highlanders can bring down Kell for good. There can be only one... the question is, who will it be?

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Chirphymium
2000/09/01

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

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Numerootno
2000/09/02

A story that's too fascinating to pass by...

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Aneesa Wardle
2000/09/03

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

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Billy Ollie
2000/09/04

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

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generationofswine
2000/09/05

So 14 years have passed since the first Highlander movie...in which Connor won the prize but yet still spawned 2 horrible sequels that retconned it and then retconned it again.But in that time they created Highlander the Series...with Duncan and that was actually good. It still ignored the fact that Connor already won the game, but it stayed a heck of a lot truer to the original and was actually amazingly good up until the final season...which was made to find a spin-off and it showed.But because the series was so good, and had so many fans from the first Highlander movie and developed so many fans of their own...they decided to make a movie......Again...Connor was in the first episode of the TV series, but it really came into it's own in the 6 years that followed and...well...it grew apart from the original film.Plus, despite the fact that 14 years had passed between Highlander and Highlander End Game, Christopher Lambert who plays Connor aged 50 years and he's supposed to be playing an ageless immortal.It really could have done without him. It should have done without him.But they threw him in there anyway.And they tried to twist a story around the both of them, Connor and Duncan that never exactly worked. Whilst doing this, they sacrificed screen time for the supporting cast of the TV series that the fans all came to know and love.What they gave was a promise of turning the series into a movie franchise. What they returned was a movie that was afraid to let Duncan and the supporting cast stand alone (even though they did for 6 years) and made a film about an aging immortal and his cousin.Needless to say it failed and the producers, making just as many mistakes as they had in Highlander II--albeit entirely new ones--and in the process lost the opportunity to make the series into a movie franchise.Had they stayed with the theme of the television show, stayed true to those types of stories, it all would have gone over better. There were more stories to tell and they had a great cast to use.They blew it.

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Melorious
2000/09/06

Ah where to start, I could say this film is a pile of rubbish for a number of reasons, it could be the poor acting in parts, the terrible, terrible lines, scenery that changes where even the most imaginative person cannot conceive the logic the director must have been using. It could even be the fight scene that repeats the same sequence to save money hoping that no one notices. There are a million and ten things that are wrong with this film, for starters it's a B film, its plot line is very sketchy, overstretched and has that many plot holes that a hovercraft couldn't move over it. All this being said I loved it, I thought it was one of the best films I had ever watched and indeed still do. Now no doubt you are thinking "but surely he just said it was crap, why should he like it, it sounds shoddy even for a B movie?" well you're right it is shoddy even for a B movie but the bottom line is its Highlander, and I am a die-hard fan of highlander. Now again I know what you're thinking, highlander one was pretty good and highlander three with a wizard dude trapped in a cave for thousands of years made more sense and was better than Endgame so why endgame out of all the highlanders? Well with endgame it was a film made specifically for fans, not for mainstream, just for people who knew the highlander world in and out and that if it was to be well received they would have to bring in Christopher Lambert. His voice is really hoarse and has an unusual twang, sounds great even though his Scottish isn't that good and his English weird. But then Lambert starred in many of the Highlanders (those worth mentioning at any rate and some that aren't) so why Endgame? Well, you get a real feel with Highlander Endgame that it is what it was supposed to be, a massive build up of two superpowers that will fight and one will win. Whether the winner is the last immortal is irrelevant, he will be that powerful that no other immortal can beat him (until the next film). Also, the films choreography, though clearly staged in many parts was light-years ahead of the earlier films, even Lambert (whose greatest downfall was poor sword work) managed to pull off a few fancy looking moves. But out of all the Highlander films I have watched Endgame related back to the original film and original structure while at the same time melding the series better than any others. No immortals from another planet like in Highlander II (and completely ruining the Highlanders), No magic unlike in Highlander three (though that was pretty cool) and it managed to combat the low budget better than Highlander the Quickening and had special affects better than any of the others. Again I hear what you're saying, just because it is not dated and has a slightly more fluent storyline than the other highlander movies does not make it worthy of recognition. Well I'm afraid it does, and there will always be a highlander that does for one reason, Highlander was a part of my childhood, it is in some of my earliest memories, it inspired my imagination and is probably the main cause for my love of sword fights and the supernatural. So in conclusion Highlander Endgame is cheesy, poorly constructed, massively exploited being stretched out for maximum profit, and partially homo erotic with Jacob uttering those immortal words to Conner "what's the matter, don't you want to be inside me?" but having watched highlander before I was old enough to see the pitfalls and bad choreography I had a love for it installed which was strong enough to endure despite its shoddiness. I love you highlander and I always will.

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Rautus
2000/09/07

The fourth part in the Highlander series sees Connor MacLeod (From the films) and Duncan MacLeod (From the TV series) forced to take on an evil Immortal named Jacob Kell who won't stop until he wins the Prize, he also revenge with Connor for killing his father and so he torments him by killing his friend Rachel who worked at the antiques store in the first Highlander and killing his cell mates in the Sancuary, a place where Immortals go if they don't want to fight in the Game. When Duncan hears about this he goes to search for Connor while encountering Kell and his gang of Immortals who ambush him, the rules also say that only one Immortal can fight another. Kell is breaking all the rules since he fights on Holy Ground and takes on Immortals with his gang, this is the reason why he is the most powerful Immortal in the world and the Watchers know this and warn Duncan. Connor is depressed about being an Immortal and hasn't got the power to take on Kell on his own and Duncan can't help him in a Two on One because it's not allowed, so Connor and Duncan must fight each other and the winner with the other's power must confront KellHighlander: Endgame is full of action and character development like the first Highlander, it's also neat to see Connor and Duncan together in a film although they did team up in the first episode of the TV series entitled The Gathering. Highlander: Endgame is a great entry to the Highlander franchise.

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tar_palantir1
2000/09/08

Cinematically speaking, I think this deserves about 6 or 7 stars in the alternate reality where I had not seen the previous Highlander films, only the series. The original Highlander with Christopher Lambert was a classic. Highlander 2 was an abomination, riddled with internal (with regard to its own storyline) and external (with regard to the storyline of the original) inconsistencies; WORST SEQUEL EVER (move over Godfather 3) but still a pretty good flick in the alternate universe where I hadn't seen the first. Highlander 3 at least tried to reconcile itself with the original but still fell short of the original. When the TV series started, I kept wondering how they were going to stay true to H1; was the series going to end with Duncan going to meet his death at the hands of the Kurgan? Obviously not as revealed in the "Watchers" episode. Nevertheless I grew to like this new guy and the series although I stopped watching in season 4 (I've heard it really jumped the shark in season 5). I knew b4 I had even seen Endgame that the younger, hunkier one would survive...typical, shallow, predictable Hollywood outcome. At least it's clear there are still other immortals at (least one lesson was learned from the previous films).

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