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Wednesday 14 January 2015

Highlander: Endgame (2000)

Endgame hammers another contradictory nail into the coffin of continuity for the franchise. It features both movie MacLeod and TV MacLeod (Adrian Paul, another fake Scot, he's a Londoner). Together the two heroes attempt to stop a powerful immortal who talks a lot of villainous crap from exhausting every cliché in the book before the film's end.
The first fifteen minutes lack flair but are genuinely exciting. Events take a dive thereafter amid too many flashbacks and a mess of a story. 'There can be only one as many as needed,' it seems. The post-fight ending, though horribly realised in CGI, was at least memorable.
Wiki mentions a longer Producer's Cut. I haven't seen it.

1½ tomorrows out of 5

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