FlashCallahan Connor Macleod is back, and this time he's brought the English bloke from the TV series with him. When his friend Rachel is killed, he gets all misty, and goes to a place called The Sanctury, which is like The Colony from Double Team.Then the confusion kicks in, which is just what you'd expect from a Highlander movie. You see, Lambert killed Bruce Paynes dad, so Payne has taken his time getting revenge, and now wants it. He has a few hench men, and Paul is along for the ride, because the show was quite successful.Immortals are not supposed to age, but what really distracts you from the film is how different Lambert looks in this dreadful movie.It's not the fact that he's aged, it all happens to us, but its the fact that he looks like he has a rare skin condition, and it really takes you away from the paper thin narrative.If you've seen Bruce Payne in any other film, you know that he is a pantomime villain, but he is the best thing in this, and really lifts the film whenever he's in it.Paul is in it for no other reason than to fight Lambert, and for both Highlander completists, this is something big.For everyone else though, its a really poor sequel to an average film, with trashy effects.At least Highlander 2 was funny....

Leofwine_draca HIGHLANDER: ENDGAME is the worst HIGHLANDER film yet, and that's saying something considering the quality of the second and third film in this series. The main problem is that this film has the unwieldy task of tying together both the film and TV series, two entirely different beasts that just don't gel. The resultant film feels like a television movie or a longer episode of the series with Christopher Lambert in an extended cameo role.It's hard to know what hurts this film more: the derivative script or the pitifully low budget. Certainly the dialogue is stale and the characters boring, with the storyline content to rehash tired concepts and formulas instead of bringing anything new to the table. Unsurprisingly it's Lambert's last appearance in the chronology, and you have to feel for him here: he's looking old and tired, his wind stolen by an actor who's both younger and better looking. Adrian Paul is okay, but speaking from the point of view of somebody who's never seen him act before he didn't really impress.The story jolts from one historical flashback to the next, throwing in some cheesy bedroom sequences en route as well as the requisite number of swordfighting sequences. Bruce Payne pops up as – surprise, surprise – the bad guy, and he's really slumming it here, never really getting the chance to shine as the evil immortal madman that he plays. It's also slightly embarrassing to see Donnie Yen popping up in the role of a minor thug – knowing his abilities and stardom in China, his relegation to the sidelines here is nothing more than a slight and his frenetic martial arts work sits ill at ease with the mannered swordfighting found in the rest of the movie. The filmmakers desperately throw in some shoddy gore effects in an effort to attract viewers, but they can't disguise the fact that this is a movie that never should have been made.

Melorious Ah where to start, I could say this film is a pile of rubbish for a number of reasons, it could be the poor acting in parts, the terrible, terrible lines, scenery that changes where even the most imaginative person cannot conceive the logic the director must have been using. It could even be the fight scene that repeats the same sequence to save money hoping that no one notices. There are a million and ten things that are wrong with this film, for starters it's a B film, its plot line is very sketchy, overstretched and has that many plot holes that a hovercraft couldn't move over it. All this being said I loved it, I thought it was one of the best films I had ever watched and indeed still do. Now no doubt you are thinking "but surely he just said it was crap, why should he like it, it sounds shoddy even for a B movie?" well you're right it is shoddy even for a B movie but the bottom line is its Highlander, and I am a die-hard fan of highlander. Now again I know what you're thinking, highlander one was pretty good and highlander three with a wizard dude trapped in a cave for thousands of years made more sense and was better than Endgame so why endgame out of all the highlanders? Well with endgame it was a film made specifically for fans, not for mainstream, just for people who knew the highlander world in and out and that if it was to be well received they would have to bring in Christopher Lambert. His voice is really hoarse and has an unusual twang, sounds great even though his Scottish isn't that good and his English weird. But then Lambert starred in many of the Highlanders (those worth mentioning at any rate and some that aren't) so why Endgame? Well, you get a real feel with Highlander Endgame that it is what it was supposed to be, a massive build up of two superpowers that will fight and one will win. Whether the winner is the last immortal is irrelevant, he will be that powerful that no other immortal can beat him (until the next film). Also, the films choreography, though clearly staged in many parts was light-years ahead of the earlier films, even Lambert (whose greatest downfall was poor sword work) managed to pull off a few fancy looking moves. But out of all the Highlander films I have watched Endgame related back to the original film and original structure while at the same time melding the series better than any others. No immortals from another planet like in Highlander II (and completely ruining the Highlanders), No magic unlike in Highlander three (though that was pretty cool) and it managed to combat the low budget better than Highlander the Quickening and had special affects better than any of the others. Again I hear what you're saying, just because it is not dated and has a slightly more fluent storyline than the other highlander movies does not make it worthy of recognition. Well I'm afraid it does, and there will always be a highlander that does for one reason, Highlander was a part of my childhood, it is in some of my earliest memories, it inspired my imagination and is probably the main cause for my love of sword fights and the supernatural. So in conclusion Highlander Endgame is cheesy, poorly constructed, massively exploited being stretched out for maximum profit, and partially homo erotic with Jacob uttering those immortal words to Conner "what's the matter, don't you want to be inside me?" but having watched highlander before I was old enough to see the pitfalls and bad choreography I had a love for it installed which was strong enough to endure despite its shoddiness. I love you highlander and I always will.

Fenris Fil Unfortunately the "Highlander" concept has been heavily tainted by multiple visions from a variety of people and a constant push from the money men to milk it for all it's worth. Each individual addition thus far, while reasonable in isolation managed to damage the overall reputation of this franchise and directly damage the quality of the original classic movie when the whole thing is considered together.Now what they have done with this fourth movie is created something that can't even stand in isolation and when put together with everything else tears it all to pieces, spits on it and throws it in the bin, just for the sake of giving this particular piece some feeling of importance.One of my biggest pet peeves with movie sequels is when the writers of the latest piece decide to essentially re-write the whole thing and ignore where others have taken us up until this point. For better or worse, we have been taken to a point and it is just arrogance to assume you can re-write it all better then those that have gone before, while it shows limited skill to not be able to work inside that framework. There are many ways they could have made a tie in between the TV series and all the movies work, but they chose to make this a partial reboot instead.The Critical mistake they made was to belittle the original film. No franchise should dismiss the reason that it is a franchise. Although it would still annoy me, they could have gotten away with the partial reboot, if they had just ignored the 2nd and 3rd movie. They even would have gotten away with not fully following on from the series. But they couldn't resist messing with the original to the point that they almost totally dismissed the events of film as meaningless and so it's no surprise that this has scored the low rating it has here on the IMDb.I watched the whole of the series as well as all the films and this movie fails to adequately fit in with any of it. One day I hope movie makers will learn that you either need to do a full reboot or get people capable of working with what they already have. Don't just let the new guys mess up everyone that went before them.