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Ughh.

Please, please, please let this be the last film that is crapped out of the Highlander franchise.


From all reports this was designed as part one of a trilogy, and honestly I just don't see how. The story....what there was of it pretty clearly ended, they find the Source, and drag us all along on their quest.

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Taking place in the a typical pretty shabby world falling apart future a few years from now...design to basically allow for sets and settings to be as cheap as possible.

Duncan still obsessed with his estranged mortal wife who left him because he can't have children.

Meanwhile Methos, Reggie (a new immortal and tech geek), and Giovanni (and immortal preist), have sent another immortal to find the Source (Something Duncan doesn't believe exists, and yet his estranged wife is having visions of).

Apart the planets (even ones elsewhere in the universe) are all aligning to reveal the source and this has awakened the Guardian....our bad guy for this film.

The Guardian is a paradox of ridiculousness.

When we first meet him quickly dispatching of the immortal Methos, Reggie, and Giovanni sent to find the Source, he has a neck guard preventing his head from being taken....oddly he takes it off after the first fight, and it makes little sense seeing as how major spoiler here The Guardian wants to be killed so he can be replaced.

Anyway Duncan fights the Guardian who can, literally move faster than humanly possible, and looks like a Chronicles of Riddick reject, but Joe (The Watcher) saves Duncan from being killed by the Guardian.

Duncan begrudgingly agrees to help Methos, Reggie, Joe, and Giovanni find the Source, by journeying to a monistary where following her own calling Duncan's wife meets them at the monistary.

There they meet an elder who once journeyed to the Source, and has become...horribly disfigured, he tells them that their group betrayed and destroyed each other, he became this, and in fighting and defeating The Guardian his friend became The Guardian of current. He also tells them that they must follow Duncan's wife, and that the closer to the Source they get, their Immortality will weaken.

While they are doing this, Reggie battles the Guardian when Reggie looks like a goner, Joe makes a second save. Which garners the Guardians attention to Joe...see it coming yet?...Duncan comes to the rescue, but will be pretty late, so he tosses his sword, it impales the Guardian through the throat. The Gaurdian being a pretty tough dude removes the sword, snaps it in half, and kills Joe. Then leaves.

Some pointless bickering as Duncan doesn't want to look for the Source again, but is convinced to by his wife.

An EXTREMLY pointless battle at a dockyard with some cannibal punks trying to burn a man alive.

They stop at a farmhouse, where Duncan finds a pair of dueling knives (like Slices short blades), of course every island farm has a pair.

While Duncan spends some time banging his wife, Reggie encounters the Guardian again who sneaks up on him with out activating his Immortal Sense and The Guardian slices Reggie up pretty bad.

The gang bug out again for the Source, Reggie dies in the car, but does not 'resurrect'. Remember the elder said their Immortality would decrease as they got closer.

The cannibal punks set a trap for our heros which they gladly fall for losing their car, and getting captured.

Trussed up on a big wooden fence of sorts and with fire creeping towards them....(apparently the cannibals like to have cooked food picky bastards) The Guardian sets Duncans wife free, stating that she was called by the Source...she goes but tells Duncan to follow her.

Giovanni frees himself but instead of helping his comrades decides that 'He is the one' the source wants.

Duncan breaks free, and sets Methos free, who says he wouldn't have done the same for Duncan.

They go after Duncans wife, Giovanni and The Guardian.

Methos and Duncan find Giovanni again at the hands of the cannibal punks, Methos says they should leave him, but Duncan says he has to save him. Which he does, but again Giovanni leaves Duncan to fight the cannibal punks.

Methos helps him dispatch the punks, but more are coming. He gracefully tells Duncan to proceed while he draws them away, stating that Duncan was better than all of them, beyond corruption Joe knew that and now he did as well.

The Guardian kills Giovanni.

Duncan fights the Guardian (both in hyperspeed apparently an effect of The Source)as his wife awaits the alignments of the planets, and the Source which is never really defined except a nice light show.

Duncan fights circles around the Guardian (literally) screwing him into the ground at hyperspeed, making him vunerable to take his head....(that gear from the beginning of the film would have helped the Guardian here except he wants to be killed so Duncan will replace him).

But Duncan doesn't kill him, he resists the tempation, and The Guardian is destroyed by.....I guess the Source.

The Immortals have had it wrong all along, "There can be only one" was not about death, and killing each other, but about life....the life of the child Duncan's wife is now carrying.




I made the story alot better than it really is.

The Guardian comes off pretty crappy, and cracks REALLY bad jokes through out the whole movie, and the Hyperspeed is REALLY annoying.

Th Source is little more than a cosmic light show, and no real answer is given as to where the Immortals come from.

The post apocolyptic like future comes up as pretty cheap as well.

Plus the movie just drags. It's slow, and uninteresting, and as for it being part one of a trilogy I just don't see it...honestly I can't even see more films after how bad this one was.

As a perspective here's my favorite Highlander films in order

Highlander
Highlander: End Game
Highlander: The Quickening
Highlander: The Source
Highlander: III

This movie was beyond bad. It was one of the worst movies I have ever watched. If they do another one they need to forget they made this one.

Repost from another site I post on. This movie was so bad, it wasn't worth re-typing the whole thing...

WARNING: SPOILERS CONTAINED WITHIN

AGAIN, WARNING: SPOILERS CONTAINED WITHIN

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Well, I just finished watching it.

Wow.

Production values: BAD.
Quality: BAD.
Acting: BAD (but only a little below mediocre.)
Special Effects/Quickening (only one): BAD.
Story: UGH. (Worse than bad honestly.)

Well. So they finally found The Source. Yay for them, pure crap for us. They never did explain what it was! Just mystical, unlimited power when the planets align? Woo. A classic staple taken from many science fiction stories that cam before this...real original there folks.

Davis and Panzer, you two should be absolutely ashamed of yourselves. Though I must give you credit for not fighting to get this to the big screen...I mean you obviously knew from past experience that this would tank anyway....but wow...this one would've forced the two of you to pay every single ticket back, and then some.

The Prize? Apparently everything we knew about it was completely thrown out the window. 21 years worth of well defined mythos, shoved in a disposal and ground to bits. It was supposed to be mortality, the ability to have a child, and unlimited knowledge. (Wisdom and life together...that was The Prize. Considering the lives they lead, it sure was a prize.) But not now...oh no. Now, Duncan apparently gets to keep his immortality (from what I could tell), Methos gets to live (along with whoever is left immortal...) and Duncan gets to help make the ultimate, perfect immortal in the form of a child. That's The Prize? What about the normal life? The wisdom of those Quickenings he took?

This entire series used to be about fantasy, that was action packed. Now, it's a science fiction knockoff, with sparse bits of action, and such a dull presentation that it literally makes you wonder how people could hate Highlander II: The Quickening/2: The Renegade Version like they do. This movie actually made II/2 fit in the series better, and actually made it look somewhat respectable!

This was just awful. I'm sorry. It really was.

I went in with no real expectations, even with previous concerns, and I'll admit...when it began, I was excited. I was chomping at the bit to get right into it. The first thirty minutes go by and I was just kinda sittin' there lookin' at the clock.

It was weird (even for fantasy and Highlander), it was convoluted (in spots...I'm still not sure I have the ending pegged quite right, and I watched it twice!) and it was boring.

Nothing was really fleshed out (they really could've shown the actual footage of the car trip, not a little montage) so we couldn't really connect to the characters.

The villain (The Guardian) was ridiculous. Kurgan was over the top, but cool. General Katana was just a psycho for psycho's sake, but passable. Kane was just a terrible knock off of Kurgan, but Mario Van Peebles was cool enough to pull it off. (What little he could work with.) Even Jakob Kell was more of a threat than this Guardian buffoon. Oooh. He can run fast, he's indestructible, he can talk in weird voices (yay, drenched in sarcasm).

The soundtrack just made me angry. They butchered "Princes Of The Universe" for no good reason. They took a classic and ruined it. I'm not kidding, the damage is so bad, it'll be a while before I can even listen to the Queen original, because it'll just remind me how terrible this version really was.

The locations....UGLY. Note to self: Never go to Eastern Europe. Especially Lithuania. You'll thank yourself for it later.

Forget The Source...no. This is HINO...H.ighlander I.n N.ame O.nly

I'm still scratching my head over the baby issue. A perfect, immortal child? Seriously? Are you kidding me? >_<

And the crappiest part of it is...they left it open ended! It looks like we'll actually get the other movies that are part of this Source storyline!

ARGH! Lionsgate...Sci-Fi...back out while you can and never skip a beat.

This was just awful.

Wasn't this advertised as a "Sci-fi Original Movie?"

If so, then that explains just how poopy this film is.

It was produced for a Theatrical release, when last month it was dumped to the TV market and purchased by Sci-Fi.


We all saw that coming, there was no release date forever, just September, plus people in Russia and Europe saw it's release well before US audiences and they warned us all how bad it was.

NOBODY LOVES WHEELIE wrote:It was produced for a Theatrical release, when last month it was dumped to the TV market and purchased by Sci-Fi.


We all saw that coming, there was no release date forever, just September, plus people in Russia and Europe saw it's release well before US audiences and -->they warned us all how bad it was.

They kinda did a lackluster job then. Cuz we still saw it. lol

Senor Hugo wrote:Wasn't this advertised as a "Sci-fi Original Movie?"

If so, then that explains just how poopy this film is.

I haven't liked any Sc-fi Original since Farscape. They just seem to keep getting worse. I'll admit, watching this crapfest was better than 2 hours of Naruto that i think was on Cartoon netowrk at the same time.

Will it have that dam theme song?


HERE WE ARE!!!!!......something something something.

קá†äñ Çøñvø¥×® wrote:Will it have that dam theme song?


HERE WE ARE!!!!!......something something something.

"Princes Of The Universe" by Queen.

And yes, it has the theme. It's been really, really ripped apart by the cover band performing it. They did a really terrible job. It was ridiculous.

Autobot032 wrote:

קá†äñ Çøñvø¥×® wrote:Will it have that dam theme song?


HERE WE ARE!!!!!......something something something.

"Princes Of The Universe" by Queen.

And yes, it has the theme. It's been really, really ripped apart by the cover band performing it. They did a really terrible job. It was ridiculous.

I'll go you one better than that, as bad as the cover of Princes was....and it was bad worse yet was the character The Guardian taunting Reggie by singing 'Who wants to live forever'.

There can be only one. If only they'd applied that to the movie, as the whole series has been downhill since the original.

NOBODY LOVES WHEELIE wrote:

Autobot032 wrote:

קá†äñ Çøñvø¥×® wrote:Will it have that dam theme song?


HERE WE ARE!!!!!......something something something.

"Princes Of The Universe" by Queen.

And yes, it has the theme. It's been really, really ripped apart by the cover band performing it. They did a really terrible job. It was ridiculous.

I'll go you one better than that, as bad as the cover of Princes was....and it was bad worse yet was the character The Guardian taunting Reggie by singing 'Who wants to live forever'.

Oh yes. I had forgotten about that. The graveyard where Joe dies sad that I even put that in memory. (his death was pathetic too. No emotional connection and it was vamped. Vamped badly.)

HEEEEEEEEERE WE ARE! Born to be kings, we are the Princes of the Universe.

HEEEEEEEEERE WE ARE! Fighting for survival in a war with the darkest POW-AH!