2/10
Gimme the prize or gimme death!
31 July 2006
Duncan McCleod(Adrian Paul) searches (For eternity it feels like) for his brother Connor(Christopher Lambert) who has dropped out of the game, however when Jacob Kell(Bruce Payne) an evil immortal who has more quickenings than them, needs to be stopped, it's up to the McCleods to join forces to take him out and while I won't spoil the ending, we'll just say that it contradicts everything that came before it. Highlander Endgame was made I'm guessing for fans of the TV show while I never tuned in for the show (It was on USA network, after Silk Stalkings for goodness sake!) I figured this would be the best sequel since it had the most going for it. One it would tie up the conclusion of the TV show, it could work as a prequel to everything before and overall you would have at least a coherent sequel. Then came an ending that comes so out of nowhere you are left to ponder exactly how it could possibly work. The answer is, it doesn't. I understand Lambert is getting older but seriously how many Highlander fans can there be left by 2000 after the show was canceled for some time and the last movie was made six years before? It is of course some bright executive who thought, hey let's get Adrian Paul to take over this exhausted series since he doesn't cost as much as Lambert to hire and say let's completely contradict the series all together. I admit Lambert is no great actor but he is leaps and bounds far more charismatic than Adrian Paul and although thankfully we are spared another Lambert sex sequence, we are left to watch Paul interact with his girlfriend in the movie, in scenes so embarrassing, that had it gotten more press, this would have been a Razzie contender for worst performance of the year. Endgame despite being a very bad movie, is at least better than The Quickening but I say that if you really want a good movie about immortals, check out the original.

* out of 4-(Bad)
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