Popular reviews

• 

  Review by DirkH ★★★★½ 10

  I love

  Christopher Lambert's brooding eyes and wicked smile

  the clumsy but epic fight scenes

  Sean fucking Connery

  that music. Fuck I miss Queen.

  the complete absence of convincing Scottish accents. Bar Mr. Connery's of course. But he's playing an Egyptian Spaniard or something

  the fact that it is historically more accurate than Braveheart

  that one of the nastiest and creepiest villains ever is played by a guy named Clancy

  how it takes time to build its mythology without outstaying its welcome at any time

  that no matter how many shitty sequels you throw at it, it only proves there really can be only one

• 

  Review by Will Menaker ★★★★ 6

  Another movie, another metaphor for having gay sex and being gay.

  Lots of great 1980s NYC in this one.

  Update: been thinking a lot about how tight Christopher Lambert's jeans, sneakers, and trench coat fit is in this one.

• 

  Review by Adryon Thomas ★★½ 4

  Still a fun terrible movie.

  Christopher Lambert can't act - at all.

  Sean Connery gives his most ethnically perplexing role of his career.

  Mr. Krabs is Insane.

  And everything is so bad, but so funny.

• 

  Review by Grant Berridge ★★★★ 6

  The immortal Connor MacLeod (Luke Skywalker) begins life as a normal chap in 16th century Scotland, but is cast out of his village under suspicion of devilry when he miraculously recovers from an obviously fatal battle wound.

  Sean Connery stars as Ramiraz (Ben Kenobe), and trains the young highlander (Jedi) in the art of swordplay and use of The Quickening (The Force).

  A tall warrior in black with a breathing problem (caused by an injury sustained in battle with Ramiraz), named (Darth) Victor Kruger mysteriously turns out not to be Connor's dad. Kruger relentlessly pursues and kills all the other Jedi until only he and the Highlander remain.

  In New York, 1986, the two remaining warriors face a climactic battle…

• 

  Review by karen h. 4

  god-tier performance from clancy brown

• 

  Review by Jacob Knight ★★★★ 8

  Still arguably the dorkiest movie ever made, and I love every second of it. Everything is epic and clumsy in equal measure, with god level coke nose visual panache from Mulcahy. Yet the strangest thing to me will always be having Connery play an Egyptian in a movie that has huge chunks that literally take place in Scotland. Just astoundingly goofy. But the whole shebang belongs to Clancy Brown, who is so outlandishly committed to the Kurgen that he rivals Arnold in THE TERMINATOR in terms of sheer cartoonish villainy. An all-timer comic book heavy in a picture that isn’t remotely related to existing IP. Try and imagine any studio making something this sincerely weird today. It’s impossible.

• 

  Review by Sean Fennessey ★★★½ 4

  I still love this and still can’t figure out what the fuck Christopher Lambert is going for.

• 

  Review by David Sims ★★★½ 4

  v normal plot

• 

  Review by Jamelle Bouie ★★★ 5

  I’ve seen this a million times and I have no original thoughts on it so here I’ll just note that the recent 4K transfer looks great except for a single scene where, it seems, they didn’t have high quality footage to use.

  Also happy to report that this is the director’s cut, which contains a great scene where Christopher Lambert shoots the shit out of a Nazi.

• 

  Review by christian d ★★★★ 6

  An essential 80s cheese-fest. Queen's soundtrack absolutely slaps, Clancy Brown steals the movie with his creepy and odd portrayal of The Kurgen and it's just overall a fun and original idea that sadly was made lesser by the sequels that came after it. Russell Mulcahy really brings the bangers and throws in his music video filming experience into his filmography with some incredible shots and unique editing. Besides, who doesn't wanna see multiple decapitations and sword fights in the streets of New York City? I KNOW I DO!!!

  🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇸⛰🤼‍♂️🤺💀⚔🧀

• 

  Review by Matt Singer ★★★½

  Better than I remembered. At the very least this is an extremely well-shot movie -- with an almost impossibly nimble camera manned by cinematographer Gerry Fisher. The camera is always moving; often with these distorted fish-eye lenses. The frame is filled with smoke and mist; it's a very appealing world.

  I think HIGHLANDER might be the movie version of LOST -- this really appealing and mysterious mythology that gets less and less interesting the more you explain it. If you divorce yourself from what you know about the franchise, and watch the first thirty minutes of this movie as if you were a total neophyte to the series, it's pretty incredible. It's this fascinatingly strange story: a man in the…

• 

  Review by threepenny ★★★★½ 6

  It's really quite an incredible movie, rich fuel for the imagination and as Freddy Mercury sings, "Who wants to live forever?" we raise our hands (and our glasses, and our lighters). The clever storyline that ends because "There can be only one" made every sequel completely pointless no matter how much everyone wanted more. This is one and done, perfectly self-contained in a way that no movie is anymore, now that we must milk every idea for all the sequels, TV series, and spinoffs possible. Leave threads open for every storyline, just in case. Not here. How refreshing. But while I still love 90% of the movie, just like I always have, the "I raped your woman to get you"…