Highlander 2 - The Quickening [DVD] [1991]

Reviews of Highlander 2 - The Quickening [DVD] [1991]:

What a poor way to follow a masterpiece.
Highlander was fantastic, this was terrible, yet 3 & 4 were more than watchable.
I do not know where they went wrong with this installment. Even the series was a major improvement on this.

Misplaced
If you had not seen Highlander I or II then this film would just be a rather weird flop. For those who saw it between the first and third films it must, surely, be a disappointment. An SF based plot which doesn't rise above the "Dan dare, pilot of the Future" standard, chronic continuity errors and wooden acting. It's only worth buying to complete the set.

Dear oh dear
Truly amazingly dreadful. First film good but by its very definition hard to follow. Can you actually imagine the writer sitting there thinking 'I'll make them from another planet' and concluding that it was a good diea.

Highlander 2 good entertainment but.........
Great sci-fi adventure however if you have recently seen the original highlander this film introduces a completely different back ground. Having said that it stands in its own right as an escapist sci fi film about the time when one business controls the world and how the aliens are amongst us now. If you haven't seen the original try it first but at the price this is a bargain nights entertainment.

Better, and worse!
The Renegade version definitely has an improved storyline, references to Zeist are dropped (a concept which infuriated fans after the magic of the original film), and the story of how his wife died of solar radiation burns giving him the motive to build the shield definitely helps. However some of the cuts required to do this are far from seamless. Highlander is now transported into the future as punishment for rebellion (in a high tech Earth from the past long lost to memory and records), to fight other punished rebels as immortals until only one remains. This doesn't explain how he was born in Loch Shiel in the original though, when the others sent through in this film all conveniently appear as adults. The most dodgy scene is still in there- when Sean Connery walks out of a theatre in Glencoe (a barely habited place with mountains all around and historical preservation) into what looks like a street in LA with a bloke walking past saying "nice threads dude!". I loved Highlander 1, one of my all time great films, with the magic, the new styles of filming, the stunning scenery, and amazing soundtrack by Queen. This sequel would never have been as good, and this version is OK, but leaves you just wishing it were so different. The story improvement restores some cred, but they didn't have the material to turn it into a great film.

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