FILM REVIEW - HIGHLANDER ENDGAME
The Highlander films and TV shows never really grabbed me too
much. Some episodes were OK, but never gripped me and I was amazed
it lasted as long as it did, the films contradicted themselves at every turn,
i.e., Connery coming back after beheading, - The series was often just a
routine cop show, with private Tec with sword instead of gun, with a few
immortals turning up in other episodes, though it got more complex
and also confusing as it went on, and the historic flashbacks were often
ludicrous in an Irwin Allen Time Tunnel sort of way.
Endgame is a film made largely for TV that promises to end both the
film and TV cycles simultaneously, and reunites Christopher Lambert (from the
films) and the TV
Maclouds (but not Dennis Weaver's McCloud) The premise is clever,
Immortals tired of the battle to have to take each other's heads, have
found a mythical 'sanctuary', a sort of Buddhist retreat where they can
hibernate in a sort of meditative suspended animation, away from the fray.
Lambert gets to hear of this and seems to want to join it, battle weary
as he is, but he is followed by the film's villain, who makes the most
of the sleeping immortals inability to fight back and takes all their
heads. He is now immensely powerful ( immortals inherit the power of
those they kill) and he is also a crap actor, playing with extreme ham,
(apparently he also did this in passenger 57 which I never saw) and looks
like he is playing King Rat in Dick Withington - The main TV Highlander is shocked
by Lambert having tried to join the retreat, Lambert is unforgiving that TV
Highlander long ago agreed to immortalize a woman he (TV Highlander) loved,
introducing a new
a new lore that they seem to be able to make other immortals in a sort of
vampirish way). She is also unhappy with this and sides briefly with the
villain, who appears to kill her along with other immortals, ( you don't
see her die, but you do see the villain closing in on her with sword and
hear her die.
Unable to face the power of the villain alone, the Maclouds realize they
must merge into one being to be able to fight him, and fight to make
each take the other's head, but TV Highlander wins and takes Lambert's head,
and then kills the big bad. Then bizarrely for no stated reason, meets girl
apparently killed earlier, and looks set to date her. How she survived is
not even hinted at, it's just a latched on happy ever after finish. it
also contradicts the film sequels which move the action to 2030 or so as
"it all happens in the present day here. The tagline ought to read,
"There can be only several."
cerapppp!
Arthur Chappell
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