Worst sequel of all time


...and still unsurpassed.

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i must agree with you i mean the guy dies in the last movie so how can he save the future, he was killed by duncan. and the sheild generator first he puts his hand in it and he feals pain and than he steps into it and nothing happens to him.

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I think your a bit confused. First off, Duncan wasn't in the first film, it was Connor. Secondly, the bad guy in this film wasn't suppose to be the same guy as in the first one, hell, he wasn't even played by the same actor, so I'm kind of wondering where you got that idea.

The flaws with this movie are:
1) They try to play off the Immortals as aliens. (WTF)
2) They try to say that there are an infinite supply of potential immortals.
3) What domc says, he stands in this massive beam of energy and doesn't get a scratch.

I've heard that the Renegade version fixes a lot of these problems, but I still haven't brought myself to watch it. Whether this is me just being lazy and not wanting to go rent it or whether it's some sub-concious imperative to protect my brain from gobs and gobs of inconsistencies, I don't know.

Draw your own conclusions.

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What I think DomC means is that in the fourth movie. Duncan actually kills McLeod in order for him to become strong enough to kill the bad guy from the fourth movie. With McLeod dead, how can he ever save the world in the second movie which plays well into the future.

But as with all the Highlander sequels, the makers try to save the story, but instead they make things worse. Timelines are bend and the holes in the plot are becoming bigger and bigger.

You should actually see the fourth movie as a seperate movie otherwise your head will spin trying to figure out what the f$%k is going on.

The second sequel was unbelievable, I mean the idea that the immortals were from another planet?????? What's up with that. Are they like Superman? It took the entire idea of a life long struggle for these immortals and that one prize completely away.

The third is named the real part 2. It does fit the timeline a lot better this time. But how could Connor have gotten the prize if three immortals were still alive?

The fourth movie. Well, I won't even mention this one. They needed something to connect Connor to Duncan I guess.

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Okay, Highlander: Endgame was made as a sequel to the *first* original Highlander movie, not Highlander two or three. Even its name suggests this because it was never originally given a numeral after its name like its predicessors "The Quickening" and whatever the hell three is called. The way Endgame was written completely rids of two and three, and joins the tv series with it. This does have some problems because Connor *is* the last one in the first movie but we can pretend different. Secondly if you watch the tv show the first two episode have Christopher Lambert playing Connor so the fourth has no need to connect Duncan and Connor. And lastly the second and third just suck.

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It goes a lot deeper than that. The reason for the suck-hood of the second movie was blamed on the production company, by Russell Mulcahy (director). Supposedly, they intervened too much and caused the director's original vision to become blurred or some artistic jargon like that. Mulcahy walking out of the premiere is a pretty good indication of the disdain that was happening.

That could be true, except for one thing: the entire idea, the script, the villains on their Back to the Future hoverboards... the whole thing was completely absurd.

When the films got new directors for "Endgame", they made the decision (and rightly so, I think) to basically pretend like the second and third movies never happened. Not only that, but to make it impossible, due to Connor's death, for them to ever have taken place. I think that was nearly as bad an idea as the stupidity that was the Shield in #2, because now we have two bad movies AND confused fans.

Oh well. Maybe they'll make a #5 or #3 depending on your view, they'll get Hayden Christensen to star in in and get George Lucas to write some beautiful dialogue like he did in SW Ep2. "Sand gets in everything." Never were more aristic (or possibly autistic) words spoken.

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>>But how could Connor have gotten the prize if three immortals were still alive?

They were careful to have them crushed in the cave-in, enough to have them dead at the time of the first movie's end, but technically revivable, and when they do, Connor feels the power taken from him.

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Yes, the "renegade version" changes "Planet Zeist, 500 years ago" to "Planet Earth, 500 years ago". Improvements galore.

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I'm sorry ereptur it was only now that I read your post, you see I don't give a damn what I said wrong (I think I made myself clear enough) and I think Cristopher Lambert pretty much played Connor in all four movies and if I said that Duncan was in the fist film then I apologise, my mistake.
And i ment Duncan killed him in Highlander IV the endgame.

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Actually, in many respects "Highlander: Endgame" surpassed even this entry (and some of other sequel masterpieces, such as "Batman & Robin" or "Jaws IV") in its ineptitude and stupidity. As they say, there should have been only one.

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This could be called the "Star Wars Holiday Special" of the Highlander universe. In both cases, they were productions that was made and presented to the public but no one wants to talk about it again. I guess its that bad.

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I would say worst movie, sequel or not, of all time.

I don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out.

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not quite, although it was terrible, planet 9 from outer space, feeders, and alien arsenal were much much worse.

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Just watch it as a standalone hilariously bad movie, and you will have fun at seeing how unintentionally amusing it is. There's a lovely review of "The Suckening" at Jabootu - http://www.jabootu.com/highlander2.htm - it's a great, amusing companion to watching this flick.

"The Suckening" (no, not "Highlander 2" - there are no "Highlander" sequels, *there is only one* :) is similar to Ed Wood's works - you can't watch them seriously, but you can have plenty of laughs when watching them as the "so terrifyingly bad they're funny" kind of flicks... Keep in my mind that there are many movies that are just as bad as "The Suckening", or even worse, but do not even manage to be amusing enough to fit this category ("Charlie's Angels" or "Tomb Raider", for instance).

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Normally, I enjoy watching (and making fun of) really bad movies. Highlander II however...oh God...WHAT THE F**K?!?!? I've gotta check out this "Suckening" 'cause that's a very good title for this crap-ass flick. Don't get me wrong, I am a fan of the series and the first and last movies, but...WHAT THE F**K?!?!?



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i take this movie as a good sci fi film, bad highlander movie, good fights, lots of action,i'm too big of a highlander fan and lambert fan too really bash this movie,there are worse movies out there, plenty of them just my 2 cents

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If there is a worse movie out there, I haven't seen it. Most "bad" movies are cheesy enough to be entertaining in a poke-fun-at-it kind of way. Movies like the plethora of killer mutant animal films coming out of Bulgaria, for example, like Octopus 2, the Shark Attack series, etc. Funny, stupid, and not even remotely serious.

THIS peice of crap, though, wasn't enjoyable on any level AT ALL. It was just truly awful; one has to wonder just what the hell these guys were thinking when they made it. I guess the success of the first one made them think that anybody would come and see this one based on the name alone, so there was no need to actually make a decent film...rather like George Lucas and the last couple of Star Wars films.

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Well, call me twisted, but I actually liked this film -- I gave it a 9 out of 10! On the other hand, I like Troma films, too.

I don't mind plot developments like Ramirez being able to materialize again. The comment that they'll always be together is sufficient to me--the dialogue establishes that there is some supernatural bond between him and MacLeod--and you could even interpret the Ramirez voice-over at the end of the first film as foreshadowing of that fact.

I also love the Blade Runner references with the sets. I love the Indiana Jones truck fight. I love the goofy porcupine punk hit men. I love the future-retro stuff like the airplane, etc. I don't think that a lot of it is unintentionally funny, I think it was meant to be funny. Everything about the airplane scene, the Psychic Cook commercial, etc. all make it obvious that like the first film, this is more than a bit campy at times.

I don't look at Highlander 2 like a failed, serious epic with continuity, consistency and coherency problems, I look at it more like a march with Wigstock contestants to Coney Island to see the Mermaid Parade, with a pit stop at Sideshows By The Seashore on the way. Maybe some of you wouldn't enjoy that, but it sure is a hell of a lot of fun to me!

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I completely agree! Nice assessment.

As for my take on the film:

There can be only one sequel to Highlander, and it's the one with the same director and screenwriter (one of them, anyways).

Oh, I'm ready for it. Come on, bring it! -Cobra Starship, Snakes on A Plane

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"If there is a worse movie out there, I haven't seen it. Most "bad" movies are cheesy enough to be entertaining in a poke-fun-at-it kind of way. Movies like the plethora of killer mutant animal films coming out of Bulgaria, for example, like Octopus 2, the Shark Attack series, etc. Funny, stupid, and not even remotely serious.
THIS peice of crap, though, wasn't enjoyable on any level AT ALL."

I totally agree with you raperm! There is nothing worse than Highlander 2.

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I saw a bit of the Turkish Star Wars film, you really have to see it to believe it!

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Agreed.

I keep telling myself that I had this terrible dream about a Highlander sequel. Then IMDB keeps reminding me. Nooooooooooooooo.

How, in all that is holy, could they have gone so very very wrong.

Never mind Arnie going back in time so save the world in the Terminator 2, someone reprogram him to take out Russell Mulcahy in 1987. Imagine all the needless suffering that might have ended there.

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Absolutely the worst movie that I ever paid money to see. It's so bad that it ruins the first Highlander movie (which is quite good, I think). When I went to see this movie in the theatre, my friend and I started yelling at the screen about half way through it and no one said anything to us. I think we may have been more entertaining than this piece of garbage film.

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You may be right, this could be the worst sequel I've seen. Heck, it's one of the five worst films I've ever seen. But is the THE worst? Hard to say, at that low level things become confused, especially over time.

Want to psych yourself up for ritual suicide? Try watching these in a day:
"Breaking the Waves" - A half-wit woman's husband is injured then she thinks God tells her to become a prostitute in a tiny Scottish town.
"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" - No plot, no real characters, no real dialog, no sense of direction. Does have two good scenes though and Johnny Depp.
"American Movie" - Two half-wits work thier jobs and bamboozle family members into helping them make a short horror film. Painful.
"Last Exit to Brooklyn" - I really did feel dirty after watching this film.

I saw about five minutes of "The Cabin Boy" which were wretched, if I saw the whole film it would probably join this list. Never saw "Freddy got Fingered".

There's a horrible one that I missed the name of. It contained a "Road Warrior" style chase with the lead character riding a motorcycle that talked and said things like "Dig it man, dig it!" A tank ran over the motocycle. Does anyone know the name of it?

-Doughdee 222
"I am a realist, not a pessimist. The real world is pessimistic by nature."

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It's not a sequel. It's an alternative tale. A "What IF?" or "Elseworlds" style story. Check out the feauturette on the Renegade (and much improved) version on DVD about by the film makers on the film NOT being a sequel. Then watch the film with an open mind, you may be surprised.

"Are you on the side of good..or the side of awesome?!"

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