InfoDroid said:
In spite of hearing about it for many, many years from people who are into the same kind of movies I am, I had avoided seeing Highlander up until last week, when my friend finally forced me into watching the first one.
The concept of the story was good, but ultimately my first insticts were right, I thought it was a badly executed film. Undeniably 80's. I was surprised to hear the prominent use of some Queen songs in there that I was familiar with from elsewhere, like "Who Wants To Live Forever", which is one of my favorite songs.
For me, it's difficult to see Clancy Brown as anything else but the prick captain of the guard in "The Shawshank Redemption". Christopher Lambert has the personality and like-ability of dogfood. And Sean Connery all but phones in his performance.
As a whole, I can take the film for what it's worth and appreciate it in the context of the time it was made. It was mildly interesting. Mildly entertaining. But when the story ends in the first one, that's it. Case closed. Story over. Period. End of conversation. There's absolutely no room for sequels.
Yet there <span class="Italics">are</span> sequels. Many of them.
I hear the sequels are pretty much unwatchable.
They say "There can be only one." Well, maybe there should've <span class="Italics">been</span> only one.
--InfoDroid
Pure secular blasphemy.