Connor MacLeod
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Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film a score of 0.5 stars (out of four), saying: "Highlander II: The Quickening is the most hilariously incomprehensible movie I've seen in many a long day—a movie almost awesome in its badness. Wherever science fiction fans gather, in decades and generations to come, this film will be remembered in hushed tones as one of the immortal low points ...
Nov 1, 1991 · Highlander II: The Quickening: Directed by Russell Mulcahy. With Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery, Virginia Madsen, Michael Ironside. In the future, Highlander Connor MacLeod must prevent the destruction of Earth under an anti-ozone shield.
- (48K)
- Action, Adventure, Fantasy
- Russell Mulcahy
- 1991-11-01
Matthew Gilbert Boston Globe Highlander 2: The Quickening is the dullest and shoddiest action-adventure flick of the year, with only a few cute Sean Connery moments to rescue it from total, sheer ...
- Russell Mulcahy
- Fantasy, Adventure
- Christopher Lambert
Nov 1, 1991 · Highlander 2: The Quickening. This movie has to be seen to be believed. On the other hand, maybe that's too high a price to pay. "Highlander 2: The Quickening" is the most hilariously incomprehensible movie I've seen in many a long day - a movie almost awesome in its badness. Wherever science fiction fans gather, in decades and generations to ...
- Plot Synopsis
- Alternate Versions
- Fairy Tale Ending
- Criticism
- Recurring Motifs
- Continuity
- Trivia
In August 1995, news broadcasts announce that the ozone layer is fading, and will be completely gone in a matter of months. In Africa, millions have perished from the effects of unfiltered sunlight. Among the dead is Connor MacLeod’s wife, Brenda Wyatt MacLeod. Before dying, Brenda extracts a promise from Connor that he will solve the problem of th...
In 1995, Mulcahy made a Director’s Cut version known as Highlander II: The Renegade Version. The film was reconstructed largely from scratch, with certain scenes removed and others added back in, and the entire sequence of events changed. All references to the Immortals being aliens from another planet were eliminated; instead, this cut reveals tha...
A once-lost alternate ending, commonly known as “The Fairytale Ending,” was shown only in some European theaters, and has never been shown in any of the American cuts. The ending shows Connor magically returning to planet Zeist, taking Louise along with him, while Ramirez’s voice is heard in the background. An early version of this ending is shown ...
Upon release, this film was met with harsh reviews by both critics and audiences. One point of controversy was the concept of Immortals being aliens from Planet Zeist. Also, the revival of Ramirez, who had died in the original film, is often viewed as incongruous with the original movie. Critics and audiences alike pointed out that the characters s...
A number of intentional similarities can be seen between the first three films in the series: 1. Each features a scene in which Connor, without a sword handy, is forced to parry another Immortal's weapon with a metal rod. This is seen during Connor's first encounter with The Kurgan during The Gathering in the original, the fight between an aged Con...
Connor's death in Highlander: Endgame directly contradicts the events of Highlander II, where he is seen as an old man in the far future (unless Duncan or some other Immortal resurrects him in the same way as Connor does to Ramirez). Highlander IIis reconcilable with the rest of the series, but only if those exiled from Zeist are also youthed into ...
Completed production exactly four years to the day of the first film. An unfilmed credit sequence would have shown Ramirez and MacLeod reincarnated as their Earthly identities. Ramirez born to an ancient Egyptian mother, and MacLeod to a Scottish peasant in 1518. Originally, Ramirez was not supposed to appear in the film. However, Christopher Lambe...
The year is 2024, and MacLeod is now a mortal old man. However, the world has become a very dead planet since the creation of "the shield", an artifical ozone layer, of which MacLeod supervised construction. It turns out that MacLeod was banished from a distant past with his mentor Ramirez. MacLeod's old nemesis from the past (General Katana ...
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Highlander: The Quickening is the original theatrical film, released in 1991. When it premiered in the UK and additional European theaters it had been re-edited to include an additional 10 minutes. In 1995, director Russell Mulcahy released a directors cut called Highlander II: The Renegade Version that reconstructed the movie, changed the ...
