#173: Highlander , Movies recommended or seen lately... les films a voir

Genre: Action/Sci-fi

Annee/Year: 1986

Format: Blu Ray

Highlander. A movie with great success in the eighties but is now showing it's age. From director Russel Mulcahy (who brought us Razorback and lots of TV material since the '90s) Highlander was a two movie franchise accompanied by a poor tv series. Casting Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery
and Clancy Brown as a members of a super race of immortal fighters with special powers. They live among us unknowningly until the time of the GATHERING at which point they meet and fight until they eliminate the others as they absorb their powers (The QUICKENING) in a display of dated special effects. The movie has aged quite a bit although the Blu Ray transfer does it justice. Still quite entertianing but will not catch on with the new generations.

Highlander. Un film qui a eu du succes dans les annees '80 mais qui montre maintenant son age. Le directeur Russel Mulcahy (Razorback et beaucoup de TV depuis les annees '90). Il y a eu deux films highlander et une serie TV pas tres reussie. La distribution incluais Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery et Clancy Brown dans le role d'immortles combattants aux grands pouvoir qui vivent parmi nous en inconnus. Lors du GATHERING ils se rejoignent pour s'eliminer les uns les autres et absorber l'energie du perdant en faisant le QUICKENING un falsh d'effets speciaux un peu vieillots. Ce film a pris de l'age et bien qu'interesant a retrouver pour les plus vieux il est mal recu par les plus jeunes malheureusement.

Great quotes:

Ramirez: [narrating] From the dawn of time we came; moving silently down through the centuries, living many secret lives, struggling to reach the time of the Gathering; when the few who remain will battle to the last. No one has ever known we were among you... until now.
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Connor MacLeod: Tell me how'd it happen for God's sake.
Ramirez: Why does the sun come up? Or are the stars just pin holes in the curtain of night, who knows? What I do know is that because you were born different, men will fear you... try to drive you away like the people of your village. [MacLeod turns his back]
Ramirez: You must learn to conceal your special gift and harness it until the time of the gathering.
Connor MacLeod: What gathering?
Ramirez: When only a few of us are left, we will feel an irresistible pull towards a far away land... to fight for the prize.
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Connor MacLeod: I am Connor MacLeod of the Clan MacLeod. I was born in 1518 in the village of Glenfinnan on the shores of Loch Shiel. And I am immortal.
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Sunda Kastagir: Macleod, it's good to see you again. It seems like a hundred years. Connor MacLeod: It's been a hundred years.
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Kurgan: At last. The Gathering... [Mini-blades pop open from Kurgan's sword before a knock is heard by his door]
Candy: Hi. I'm Candy.
Kurgan: Of course you are...

Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091203/maindetails

Rating perso: 7.0/10