Highlander II: The Quickening (1991)

I remember seeing this as a small child. Maybe I was 6 years old. I really liked American action films. I had a illusion that big costly movies can really be bad. The reason for this is that so much money is spent on it and so many persons are involved and looking at the script. This movie destroyed that. Its so awful.

Highlander 2: Renegade Version is MILES way better than the original theatrical version! This is the version that it supposed to come out in theater but the movie was cut to 1h 31 min which was ridicules! Highlander II: The Quickening sucks ass and it is one of the worst movies of 1991! I understand why everyone hates this film and I agree with all the haters this movie sucks, but the Renegade Version does not suck! That is why I am giving a score 8 out of 10, but that doesn't mean this movie was epic, perfect or the best, on the contrary it is not even a close movie to an original film! But I like it a lot and I am going to count the reasons what I like about this version. I have a lot of problems with this sequel but Renegade Version was entertaining! I have this movie on Blu-ray Renegade Version which it really surprised me. Plot: It's 2024 and MacLeod (Christopher Lambert) and Ramirez (Sean Connery) are back to save planet Earth. Ozone depletion, time travel and corporate greed are at the core of all the thrilling twists and turns in this stylish action sequel. Featuring new state-of-the-art special effects and digital re-mastering, it's HIGHLANDER II like you've never seen or heard before.Thing's I love in this movie: Christopher Lambert is reunited with Sean Connery and director Russell Mulcahy. I absolutely love the old cast from the first film. Juan Sánchez Villa-Lobos Ramirez played by Sean Connery become really a beloved character from the first film. The original film was directed by Russell Mulcahy and I am glad he directed the sequel good for him. I love those three in this movie! Michael Ironside is an awesome bad ass villain as General Katana, he is not the best villain like was Clancy Brown as The Kurgan, but he was really close evil tough bad guy, that we all wanted him dead. Ironside was also the bad guy in Total Recall (1990) my all time favorite Schwarzenegger movie. That is one of the reason why I like this movie. I love that this movie is set in 2024 it is a sci-fi futuristic film, you see mostly dark and red world which it is a futuristic world and I love that in this movie.I love the song One Dream performed by Lou Gramm Band I love the song score which is perfect to this film. Highlander 2: Renegade Version really reworked the movie in to kind a the original version supposed to be: they are not really an aliens, they are kind a, just put trough time and they are finding that out. So basically one of them is shipped trough time and they shipped them trough time. They have to fight each other in a combat to the death, when you behead someone you take their energy away and when you kill all the immortals you become mortal and that is basically what happens with a Highlander 2: Renegade Version.The reason I love this movie is because it takes place in the future and it is cool, there is a guy with a wings going after him, those guys are kind a nit. They are some really kick ass fights scenes in it. I love the fact that Ramirez comes back I don't care, that it doesn't make sense or it dopes makes sense. It is Highlander, it is immortals beheading each other to become the one. It is not supposed to be realistic who cares. He use The Quickening energy to bring back Ramirez I would do it. I love that Ramirez comes back he is a cool character and I love him. I love that Brenda J. Wyatt returns in this movie but this time she is played by Karin Drexler when we find out what happened to the character from the first movie.Katana (Michael Ironside) does respect the rules, the immortals never fight on a holly ground.The sky is red in this film because of the field energy. The only problem with film I have is: The renegade version may be a better edited movie than the original crap fest The Quickening, but it still suffers from terrible screenplay which had problems from the very beginning.The fight between MacLeod and Katana was cut short and it could be a longer duel. I wish there would be more an epic swords fight like was in the first movie. Ramirez music score was horrible, Ramirez acting in this movie like an idiot was horrible. I wish they would cut those scenes out when he lands in an opera, I really wouldn't want to see that. In my opinion this is the true original sequel to the original film. Overall: I like this movie it is a childhood movie of mine I grew up watching this movie. I love sci-fi in this movie and I love Highlander 1 and 2 to death but I love Highlander (1986) the best! B 8/10 Renegade version, Original version F 1/10. Highlander II: The Quickening is a 1991 American science fiction action film directed by Russell Mulcahy and starring Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery, Virginia Madsen, and Michael Ironside. It is the second installment to the Highlander film series, and it was released on 12 April 1991 in the United Kingdom and 1 November 1991 in the United States.8/10 Score: B Kismet Entertainment Film Distributors Starring: Christopher Lambert, Virginia Madsen, Michael Ironside, Sean Connery, John C. McGinley, Allan Rich Director: Russell Mulcahy Screenplay: Peter Bellwood Story by Brian Clemens, William N. Panzer Based on Characters by Gregory Widen Producers: Peter S. Davis William N. Panzer Rated: R Running Time: 1 Hr. 49 Mins. Budget: $30.000.000 Box Office: $15,556,340

I've heard so much about the wretchedness of this movie, and also because I'm a huge fan of the original, I really had to sit down and watch this apparently hilariously bad movie. So, I sat down, watched it, and found myself laughing my socks off the whole way through! This movie is just so bad on so many levels, and boggles the mind so many times, you really can't help but laugh. I mean, was this meant to be an action movie? Because the decisions made in the practically non-existent story and the almost impossible events that occur will leave you in stitches!So what's the muffin? In 1994 the Ozone layer is fading, and thus a mortal Connor MacLeod comes up with a shield that will block out the sun and thus save the planet, at the expense of the fact that it would cause ecological devastation and wipe out humanity in many other ways, but whatever. Anyway, apparently the Immortals from the last movie weren't just a select few for an unknown reason, no, no, they were aliens, banished from the Planet Zeist 5,000 years earlier to earth and granted immortality as punishment(?!) Hey, if that's punishment, sign me up for more!Anyway, because the evildoer who runs Zeist named General Katana (imaginative name if ever there was one) is apparently bored and he decides 5,000 years after MacLeod left the planet that he should now kill him, and thus teams up with the evil leader of the Planetary Shield to hunt down and destroy MacLeod.So, what specifically is wrong with this movie? Well, apart from the fact that it takes everything established in the previous movie and turns it on its head is a bad start. The number of gaping plot holes in this movie would be enough to sink Greenland, for example, how calling someone's name can make them magically appear from the dead? What on earth happened there?!But it get's worse, the acting is as hokey as you could possibly get, the special effects are laughably fake, the fight choreography isn't as good as the original, the villain, and for that matter any of the other characters, have nothing to make them interesting, and basically, if you happened to watch this movie first rather than the original movie, you wouldn't know who any of these characters are because there is little to no reference to the original. The idea of a sequel is to build on the previous movie with at least some reference to it so as to enhance the story, but this one appears to be made up as it goes!Overall, it's a jumbled mess, but incredibly funny to watch. I was just astounded the first time I saw this as to how wrong they could possibly make this film! I totally recommend you watch this film if you're in the mood for a laugh, especially if you've seen the previous film, because like myself you'll probably be giggling till your sides hurt!

Years after battling the Kurgan in Scotland and New York, Connor MacLeod and his suave mentor, Juan Villa-Lobos Ramirez are back, tracking time warps and new adventures in this sequel. The Kurgan may have been vanquished - remember decapitation is the only way to be killed if you are a highlander, but now they are more foes to conquer in an even more hostile world.This film starred: Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery & Michael Ironside.Highlander 2 is that bad, it makes Highlander look like a sold 10/10 film that should go down in history as one of the best films ever. It is listed as a comedy on the site but I think they have mistook it for a comedy because it is so bad it can be quite hilarious at times. I can't believe that Sean Connery signed up to be in this mess, luckily for him he redeemed himself with films like The Rock. I do enjoy the first Highlander film it has good action scenes and a brilliant soundtrack from Queen (one of my personal favourite bands) however I don't think the first film is the best it is around 6 and a half out of 10, this film was that bad it did make Highlander 1 look immense. Don't watch this film, stick with the original as you can probably tell from this review, I don't recommend this film.*/***** Very poor.