I happen to work at a video store and my boss is a huge Highlander fan. Having never seen the movies before he loaned me Highlander 2: Renegade Eidtion ... It was most definitely a laughable movie, but enjoyable due to its cheeseball nature.
Figuring that it suffered from just being a bad sequel I rented the first one from my work only to find that Highlander, is just as much as a laugh as the second movie.
You see actors trying to be serious, trying to actually act... But it doesn't happen. Lambert doesn't even know how to do a Scottish accent, it's very feint and sometimes it's not even there when he speaks. I think it would be understandable if he could shed the accent after many years, but he just can't nail it whatsoever. His acting is subpar, as is the rest of the cast. Sean Connery made me laugh a few times by saying really stupid crap about whatever MacLeod was experiencing, but that's about it.
Things just sort of happened in this movie, it seemed rather slopped together. I mean, somehow we find this guy is immortal, Sean Connery comes around and magically knows everything that MacLeod needs to know... Bad guy pops in, kills Sean Connery because Lambert is out somewhere... We never find out where... and then it's in the future and this big hulking guy is stalking him for the prize or whatever.
My question was, why didn't Clancy just wait around for MacLeod to return and end it there?
Anyway... This isn't a terrible movie or anything, it's definitely a good popcorn flick with some laughs due to a high camp factor, however I definitely don't see it as the masterpiece that fans claim it is.
2 and a half out of 5 stars or something.
Figuring that it suffered from just being a bad sequel I rented the first one from my work only to find that Highlander, is just as much as a laugh as the second movie.
You see actors trying to be serious, trying to actually act... But it doesn't happen. Lambert doesn't even know how to do a Scottish accent, it's very feint and sometimes it's not even there when he speaks. I think it would be understandable if he could shed the accent after many years, but he just can't nail it whatsoever. His acting is subpar, as is the rest of the cast. Sean Connery made me laugh a few times by saying really stupid crap about whatever MacLeod was experiencing, but that's about it.
Things just sort of happened in this movie, it seemed rather slopped together. I mean, somehow we find this guy is immortal, Sean Connery comes around and magically knows everything that MacLeod needs to know... Bad guy pops in, kills Sean Connery because Lambert is out somewhere... We never find out where... and then it's in the future and this big hulking guy is stalking him for the prize or whatever.
My question was, why didn't Clancy just wait around for MacLeod to return and end it there?
Anyway... This isn't a terrible movie or anything, it's definitely a good popcorn flick with some laughs due to a high camp factor, however I definitely don't see it as the masterpiece that fans claim it is.
2 and a half out of 5 stars or something.