I have all of the highlander series box sets and have seen every episode before, this film, whilst not of a mega Hollywood budget, obviously had a much bigger budget than that of a couple of TV episodes. Yes Duncan seems a bit glum and miserable throughout, but he had become that way by the end of the TV series, so it makes sense.
Granted this was not a high brow attempt to bring the franchise to a conclusion, but hey it's a movie not an episodic ongoing saga and as a movie it conjured up a good looking dark twisted and evil world with some larger than life characters somewhat akin to 18 rated comic book characters, plus some decent sets and FX.
My god I have seen lots of really bad reviews for this, people take things too seriously, it's basically an action/fantasy/horror movie and as such was fun too watch which I believe is the point to such movies.
So not an intelligent conclusion but what the hell, it was fun and remember the whole idea of Highlander was always insane with inherent floors all over it so come on you die hard 'Trekkie' type people, lighten up and don't take such a rigid approach to mythical fantasy icons. 7 out of 10.
Granted this was not a high brow attempt to bring the franchise to a conclusion, but hey it's a movie not an episodic ongoing saga and as a movie it conjured up a good looking dark twisted and evil world with some larger than life characters somewhat akin to 18 rated comic book characters, plus some decent sets and FX.
My god I have seen lots of really bad reviews for this, people take things too seriously, it's basically an action/fantasy/horror movie and as such was fun too watch which I believe is the point to such movies.
So not an intelligent conclusion but what the hell, it was fun and remember the whole idea of Highlander was always insane with inherent floors all over it so come on you die hard 'Trekkie' type people, lighten up and don't take such a rigid approach to mythical fantasy icons. 7 out of 10.