I watched Highlander for the first time recently. I really liked it a lot. Though I felt like the female love interest in the present day scenes was unnecessary, she could have just been an ally and not a future girlfriend. And I also got tired of Christopher Lambert’s weird “heh heh” laugh, he laughs like that in Mortal Kombat too. I found his voice to be grating and off-putting. I got that the accent was unusual because he had lived for 400 years all over the world, and wouldn’t have a specific accent, but it didn’t make it any less irritating to listen to.
But Clancy Brown was great as the Kurgan, and he was pretty much my favorite character of the movie. I liked his heavy metal look, and he seemed to have so much fun playing the villain.
I was surprised that Sean Connery wasn’t in as much of the movie as I thought. He enters the film forty minutes in, and is dead about twenty minutes later or so. I did not buy him as an Egyptian at all, and Lambert sounded like either he did a lot of ADR or someone else had dubbed his lines, because he didn’t speak English at the time.
The sword-fighting scenes were pretty good, I liked the training sequences with Connery, with his supportive encouragement, and the final battle with the Kurgan, though the stunt double work was very obvious with the use of silhouettes and dimly lit night scenes.
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