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What's The Point Of Highlander?
have to agree with your review of Highlander: Endgame. I had the feeling that what I was watching was a rough edit of the movie. It did not seem to be finished. It was very choppy. Scenes from the previews (Kell cut in half, Duncan and Connor jumping through some kind of portal) were not in the final print. I would love to see the original script, as I hope that there was more intended than the drivel we saw. My comment at the end of half the scenes in the movie was, "What was the point in that?" Unfortunately, I was asking the same questions at the end of the movie.
David Forvendel
d4vendel@nc.rr.com
No More Gratuitous Butts
I have just seen the most disappointing film since the abomination known as Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace. It is called Highlander: Endgame. What was promised to the Highlander fan community as "The film that will correct all past mistakes and take the Highlander mythos into the new millennium" has in actuality made me pray for a power outage. The only people who will enjoy this film are the same people who slow down and look at car wrecks on the highway. You know it's going to be awful, yet you can't help but look. Without getting worked up into a tizzy I would like to list just a few of the problems with this film:
1) The absence of music by Queen (using Freddy Mercury's death is no excuse. Yes, he is dead and buried but his recordings are not. If Tupac can pull it off so can Freddy!)
2) Does anyone remember how to act, or was Prozac and Xanax at the top of the menu that day?
3) Where are those funky scene transitions from the present to the past? Come on guys, if it ain't broke don't fix it. Even the television series pulled that one off.
4) What's up with the gratuitous butt shot?
5) As much as I want to forget that the second and third films never happened, I wish the producers of this film had hired a writer to spin some yarn to explain this sudden onset of mass amnesia.
I could go on with this list for a lifetime but alas, unlike Connor and
Duncan MacLeod I am not an immortal. In closing I will leave you with this thought: Yes, there can be only one. And that would be the first and best of the Highlander series.
Adam Zebersky
AZebersky@aol.com
