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Loading... Highlander [1986 film] (1986)by Russell Mulcahy (Director), Peter Bellwood (Screenwriter), Larry Ferguson (Screenwriter)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Yes, this is the film that captured my imagination for all time. Connor MacLeod, (Christopher Lambert) an immortal, who learns what that entails from his mentor, Juan Sanchez Via Lobos Ramirez, played by Sean Connery. Great scenery, great costumes (particularly Sean's), great story, and music by Queen done specifically for this film that has become classic in so many other films. Lots of questions, lots of layers of history. Life, love, war, and for how many generations? What would it be like to be an immortal? And who could play the canny wolflike, yet vulnerable Connor better than Christoph? There are two reasons to see this movie. Sean Connery- who makes a rather funny part as the hero's mentor, and Clancy Brown's villain. He plays the Kurgan with gleeful humour. Unfortunately, Lambert is a wooden and rather unsympatethic her. With one facial expression only. Then one can wonder why he plays a Scot, and the real Scot plays an Egyptian... no reviews | add a review
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Conner Macleod is a Scot who should have died in 1536. But he belongs to a rare race of immortals that can only be killed when beheaded with a sword. Their destiny is to duel through history until the Gathering, when the remaining few will battle for supremacy. Macleod lives in peace for four centuries. Then his old enemy, the evil Kurgan, arrives to challenge him. With modern New York as their arena, the two time-scarred swordsmen square off. Only one can survive. And he will wield more power than any man ever dreamed existed. No library descriptions found. |
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2.5/4 (Okay).
Most of the concept is just a lot of arbitrary "this is how this works because I said so." But I kind of like that sort of thing. The plot, though, of "these people need to kill each other, and then they do, the end," is just... why? Why is that all that happens in a two hour movie? ( )