Highlander : Le Gardien de l'immortalité

I was apprehensive upon viewing this picture especially after reading all the scathing reviews. Which may be why I enjoyed it so much, In my opinion it captured the feel of the T.V. show & it was well filmed & acted. At one point I even got a little teary eyed. Even though it adds to the Highlander myth it does not disregard what has gone before. Unlike certain sequels. (Highlander 2 The Quickening! I highly recommend this to both fans of the show and casual viewers as it is a self contained story! I hope even though it has been relegated to the Sci-Fi channel that they still do 2 more films as was originally planned! Internationally it should be released theatrically. It deserved more than a cable showing!

I loved the Highlander series. I loved the first Highlander movie. But holy crap, this movie was terrible. It has the acting, effects and plot of a made-for-TV Sci Fi channel movie (oh wait...). Everything about the film stunk of terrible quality. It was actually kind of sad to see Paul and the Highlander franchise in general in so bad of a continuation. Nearly every character mailed it in and sleepwalked through their characters. The rest played so over-the-top that you want to hold your head in your hands and groan. And, once again, the Highlander writers find another half-assed reason to make another movie (the prize in the last movie? no no no, that wasn't the REAL prize, THIS is the real prize.). If you're a Highlander fan, don't even watch this. It butchers that which you love.

Highlander fans - there simply are very few ways to enjoy this. Aside from totally ignoring the mythology of both the films and the series, the fight scenes were either poorly choreographed, poorly shot, or both. There are no flashbacks in a film that desperately needed some sort of underlying sub-plot and/or simple explanation of the main plot. The dialogue is cheesy, not one of the characters approaches anything like three-dimensionality (other than the recurring trio from the series - and that's only by virtue of fans' past experience with them), and there is no real motivation given for any of them aside from lame "having visions" plot. Like the last Highlander film that attempted a futuristic setting, this one misses everything that made the first film and the series great. And unlike Highlander 2, the vision of the future here is never really explained and doesn't make a great deal of sense. They should have stuck with the monkey and the airplane. (See the trivia section.) I can't even really say that if you aren't a Highlander fan it might be enjoyable - because even then it didn't make a lot of sense. I saw it, so I can't un-see it, but if you haven't spare yourself the train wreck.

This is truly a masterpiece, this gem of a film should be shown in every film school in the world, it is a modern day classic! From the astonishing cinematography to the spot on acting, from the amazing editing to the incredible pacing, from the surprising story to the inventive dialogue...this movie does NOTHING RIGHT!!!!!! I give it ten stars out of ten simply because this kind of horribly rotten movie can't be made by accident. This must have been done purposely, it's the filmmakers telling us that if they can't make a good movie, they'll make the worst movie they possibly can! And they succeeded! They succeeded wonderfully! This is a marvelous disaster! The cinematography is amazingly bad, every single shot is wrong, every one, you can't do that on accident, it's mathematically impossible! The acting is spot on, that is if they were making Harold and Kumar go to White Castle; it frequently appears that every single scene had something different than what we saw precede it. It doesn't make any sense, it's genius. The editing is amazing, it makes the viewer so nauseous that it is literally painful to watch. The pacing is incredible, it makes no sense, and builds not a scintilla of tension. The dialogue is so very inventive, just when you think each character might say something that makes sense, they either go into a dry, boring monologue or make a bad cliché'd remark. Usually they do one when they ought to do the other and they always make sure they do it at the wrong time. It's fabulous. But the best part of this Oscar caliber (especially these days) bad movie, is the STORY! OH MY GOD!!!!! Not only did they take a flimsy, half-hearted, ridiculous premise--Immortals looking for the source (of what I don't freakin' know)--but they used it to tell a completely retarded, non-sensical, meaningless, confusing, and very, very, stupid story. Brilliant, of all movies (yes I do include "Batman and Robin") that grace the worst of lists, of all the movies meant to be the worst of the worst, this has to take the cake. My hats are off to the writers and producers, you have made the worst movie in history, and you should be proud of yourselves. I can't wait for the sequel, "Highlander: making love to a dead and decayed franchise". Please, if you're going to try to resurrect this franchise--A franchise which I love dearly--please, please do something right, like hire actual writers!