The film is desperately overplotted; events and years rush by and pile up like cars in an interstate wreck. It's also terribly overexplained.
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02/25/09
Highlander 2: The Quickening (1991)
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Reviews Counted:21
Fresh:0
Rotten:21
Average Rating:2.6/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 11 mins
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
US Box Office: $0
Synopsis: Immortal Scottish swordsman Connor MacLeod has just been banished to Earth for leading a failed rebellion on his home planet of Zeist. On Earth, he discovers the shield he built to shade humanity... [More]
Starring: Sean Connery, Christopher Lambert, Michael Ironside, Virginia Madsen
Director: Russell Mulcahy
Reviews for Highlander 2: The Quickening
Audiences unfamiliar with the first film will be hard put to follow the action [from a story by Brian Clemens] as it incoherently hops about in time and space.
02/25/09
Top CriticLeaden, laden with effects, short on imagination.
08/16/07
No review available.
08/14/05
Another substandard sequel.
02/18/05
...[not] as bad as it's been made out to be over the years.
08/02/04
Incomprehensible doesn't even begin to explain it. This movie is the equivalent of the "Hey look over there!" gag. You look, and the guy you wanted to beat up has run away.
07/13/04
No review available.
02/13/04
No review available.
12/25/03
The director's cut elevates this misconceived sequel from one of the worst stinkers ever to merely dreadful.
11/26/03
Beyond redemption.
08/20/03
It would be best if we all just agree amongst ourselves that this movie never happened.
08/13/02
No review available.
07/30/02
No review available.
07/26/02
No review available.
07/26/02
It would be much more fun to see the film makers point fingers at each other over why this sequel is so bad.
01/01/00
In short, lots of action and wild stunts, lame comedy and a story that makes no sense whatsoever.
01/01/00
Ugh!
01/01/00
The acting is terrible,with Connery, at his lowest common denominator, stealing the show.
01/01/00
Mulcahy and company don't ask us to suspend disbelief; they ask us to pretend we've all had weed-whacker lobotomies.
01/01/00
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