Well on the plus side to the two wasted hours I was able to really know the movie I watched was AWFUL!
Understand I am a fan of “B” movies and I am not a movie snob. I will watch most movies and have watched some great “B” movies and some terrible “A” movies… Tonight however I feel a crime was committed on humanity and a fun franchise.
I watched HIGHLANDER the SOURCE the 5th movie in the franchise that was on SciFi last night. TIVO is a wonderful and yet terrible thing. The movie is set in the “Future” that is in chaos and immortals are searching for “The Source” the holy grail of the immortal world. Unlike the other films and the show it was extremely linear and had very few flashbacks of any kind. There was a new bad guy “The Guardian” a super fast immortal killer. The movie was poorly edited, poorly acted and terribly written. The camera effects were campy and it felt like it was edited together by a monkey. The soundtrack was awful with a terrible cover of Queens “Princes of the Universe” that was used in a seen so cut up it might give young children epileptic seizures. The story seemed to be thrown together and everything decided by comity. In the end there can be only ONE… And really not this one…
If I were to rate this movie I would give it ZERO Stars, A group of Thumbs Down and a have to admit it was one of the WORST movies I have ever seen…And that is saying a lot!
Now as for the rest of the Franchise…
The Original HIGHLANDER movie is a classic and well done movie. The original is a favorite of mine and always will be.
HIGHLANDER 2 The QUICKENING or should I say waste of time was just plain bad. Despite some good actors it was a blight on the original Highlander movie…
HIGHLANDER 3 The FINAL DIMENSION – Was watchable and basically ignored the 2nd movie. (Which everyone should)
HIGHLANDER 4 ENDGAME – Was actually not too bad and at least brought the aspects of the TV Series to the big screen.
HIGHLANDER the SERIES from the 90′s was very entertaining and lasted for 6 years. The stories were fun, the flashbacks top notch and the locations really nice. Introducing so many immortals made the show fun each week.
The 5 (Killing a Franchise Edition)
- Highlander the Source – The concept of the quest for the origins of immortals is cool. The implementation of said idea was TERRIBLE
- Broken Sword – Hmmm Where have we seen the Samurai sword broken by a bad guy… Oh Yeah Highlander 3…
- Editing – Was a mess of editing… Poor cuts, bad fades and really poor choices…
- Fights – What a joke that was… The guys behind these fights should do the honorable thing… Again the fights were poorly edited and badly done. Nothing like getting cut by a sword that misses you by a foot… Oh and lets SPEED up the camera to make them look faster… (PUKE)
- Franchise Killer – Just when you though the franchise recovered from Highlander 2… They made this poor excuse of a movie… In the End… Burn This One!
Daily Observation: Why is it people always want to take a working idea and throw it out the window for some poorly thought up garbage that a dog would get bored of???
