Highlander II: The Quickening

Audience Reviews

View More

Jeff D @Username99999 Feb 6 I gave it a really good rating because I live the highlander. Well, I gave it the best rating I coup bring myself to give. 0% is actually quite fair. See more Daddy P @DaddyPadawan Jan 29 So, I see this gets a lot of flack, and as a continuation from the first the film, the story is ridiculous. But as its own film I love it, from its Operatic opening, visually it's stunning, the cinemtography is peak cinema, the score with its classical undertone suits it well and the actors involved give the best and memorable performances they can given the story. One of those guilty pleasures that make me want to make films. Go Christopher Lambert!! See more Andrew R. @ADufresne Jan 8 This is the worst Highlander I’ve ever seen - it makes no sense, it goes against the rest of the lore of the series. Some cool over the top 90s explosions but I can’t think of any other redeeming qualities See more Dave K @RT50265305 Nov 1 People are wrong on this one. It is horribly good-bad. I enjoyed the watch for all of the 80's and 90's tropes as well as some Queen riffs. You have the quintessential mad villain who is bad just to be bad whose big entrance involves a scene of madness just for the sake of bullying everyday people and creating chaos. You have the overtly drug fueled twin henchmen with psycho punk hair, goggles, powder pale skin, and maniacal laughs. Oh by the way they have a lovely 80s sci fi jetpack or a hover platform and they decide to take turns so they can be killed off one by one. Keep in mind they are fighting the one immortal left on earth who supposedly has the most power. No real reason for cockiness but hey it works as a trope. Sean Connery is resurrected by a wish in one of the few times in the entire series that we actually see the quickening do something other than make a lightning storm and gift the winner by electrocuting them. Connery is hilariously out of touch with society as another 80s time traveler trope and pays for gentleman tailor services with an earring (another great 90s pop culture trope). If you know about the male earring stuff you know that it was rumored to be a sexuality signal: right meant "f*g" left meant straight and both meant bi (those are the words of the time don't roast me!). It was also very fun that the "future" was 2024 and it was bleak and here we are with an ozone layer. The ozone hole is the perfect trope of climate hysteria. Humans make a really cool scientific discovery and immediately panic thanks to clickbait media reporting. We know now that the hole has likely always been there and waxes and wanes with volcanic activity more than anything else. In the movie, humans destroyed the ozone layer entirely in 1999 and it took 20 some years to heal itself. See more André V @andrevig Oct 29 Probably the worst movie ever. See more Ricardo C @RT68427030 Sep 23 Highlander II es un ejemplo casi de manual de cómo arruinar una buena idea con una secuela que no entiende ni respeta el espíritu de la obra original. Lo que en la primera entrega era fantasía urbana con tintes épicos, aquí se convierte en una extraña mezcla de ciencia ficción distópica, extraterrestres y reglas que se contradicen a cada paso. La película borra lo construido: personajes que habían muerto regresan sin justificación, los inmortales pasan a ser alienígenas de Zeist, y el final cerrado de la primera cinta queda sin sentido. Todo esto da como resultado un guion incoherente, lleno de giros absurdos y escenas que parecen improvisadas. Lo que se percibe es una secuela escrita por gente que no disfrutó —ni entendió— la película original. De otro modo, cuesta imaginar decisiones narrativas que contradicen abiertamente el universo previo y desplazan su tono hacia algo completamente distinto. El resultado es un film desordenado, con estética pobre y sin rumbo, que decepcionó a los fans al punto de forzar nuevas ediciones posteriores intentando arreglar lo que nunca debió filmarse de esa manera. En definitiva, Highlander II no solo es una mala película: es una advertencia sobre lo que ocurre cuando una secuela se hace sin respeto por lo que vino antes. See more Read all reviews

Highlander II: The Quickening

My Rating

Read More Read Less WRITE A REVIEW EDIT REVIEW POST RATING

Most Popular at Home Now