Personally, I enjoyed it about the way I enjoyed the Mortal Kombat movies, meaning that its genuine fun and its unintentionally ridiculous moments are roughly in balance.
Highlander: Endgame (2000)
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Reviews Counted:52
Fresh:6
Rotten:46
Average Rating:3.3/10
Consensus: The fourth and supposedly last Highlander movie is a confusing mess, complete with bad acting and dialogue.
Runtime: 1 hr 41 mins
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Box Office: $6,223,330
Synopsis: The sword-wielding immortals are back--Connor MacLeod (Christopher Lambert) from HIGHLANDER and Duncan MacLeod (Adrian Paul) from television's HIGHLANDER series. In HIGHLANDER: ENDGAME, the two... The sword-wielding immortals are back--Connor MacLeod (Christopher Lambert) from HIGHLANDER and Duncan MacLeod (Adrian Paul) from television's HIGHLANDER series. In HIGHLANDER: ENDGAME, the two MacLeods do battle across time and space (from 15th century Scotland to present-day New York). Their foe is the evil, ultra-powerful Jacob Kell (Bruce Payne). Kell's immortal purpose is to make Connor's immortal life miserable--Kell was responsible for the death of Connor's mother and his wife, Heather. Kell is assisted by Kate (Lisa Barbuscia)--she seeks revenge on Duncan for giving her no choice about becoming an immortal. The VHS and DVD releases feature an extended new cut of the film. [More]
Starring: Christopher Lambert, Adrian Paul, Bruce Payne, Donnie Yen
Starring: Christopher Lambert, Adrian Paul, Bruce Payne, Donnie Yen, Edge, Lisa Barbuscia, Ian Paul Cassidy, Jim Byrnes
Director: Douglas Aarniokoski
Director: Douglas Aarniokoski
Screenwriter: Joel Soisson, Gregory Widen, Eric Bernt
Producer: Peter S. Davis, William N. Panzer
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Reviews for Highlander: Endgame
When Highlander sticks to the hand-to-hand battles and doesn't try to offer deeper thoughts on the life of an immortal, it works on its own terms.
A fitting coda for a franchise that respects its audience with creative flights of fancy.
People going to see this movie without any knowledge of the Highlander TV series or the original film will be lost. Fans, on the other hand, will love it!
The dialogue is cheesy, and the story's decapitated long before any character's noggin goes flyin'.
It quickly goes astray with fight scenes laden with too many bullets, too many explosions, too many sparks, lightning bolts and weird lights -- and too many impalings.
The fourth sequel to a film designed to stand alone... In the end, there should have been only one.
Perhaps Highlander: Endgame may emerge as a cult movie -- one of those movies that is so bad, it's good. But for it to register in that way, you probably have to see it more than once. Which is a risk.
Thinking (logically or otherwise) about this movie is a waste of your brain cells.
...do not under any circumstances rent this if you've never seen the Highlander TV series.
Even the sound effects get tiring: How many times can you hear swords being clanged, yanked from the Earth or sinking squishily into quivering flesh without getting bored?
Kate complains about being an immortal, grousing about 'the endless, numbing sameness of it all.' I know how she feels.
You know a sequel serves no other purpose than to make money when it has no respect for the rules and history it has set up for itself.
The same pointless exercise in violence and pseudo-mystical twaddle that the whole series has represented since 1986.
Kinetic but borderline incoherent, hinging entirely on character relationships whose significance it can't possibly slow down long enough to explain for the newbies in the audience.
The action sequences are decent, but the effects end up so god-awful towards the end ... that all you can do is cringe.
The sort of movie that's best seen late at night on TV in the company of some inebriated friends with smart mouths.
This film feels like a torturously overlong TV episode, and it takes itself so seriously that it has none of the camp value of the original film or the show's sword 'n' sorcery competition.
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