Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Konterr Brilliant and touching

Dotbankey A lot of fun.

Kimball Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

generationofswine So 14 years have passed since the first Highlander movie...in which Connor won the prize but yet still spawned 2 horrible sequels that retconned it and then retconned it again.But in that time they created Highlander the Series...with Duncan and that was actually good. It still ignored the fact that Connor already won the game, but it stayed a heck of a lot truer to the original and was actually amazingly good up until the final season...which was made to find a spin-off and it showed.But because the series was so good, and had so many fans from the first Highlander movie and developed so many fans of their own...they decided to make a movie......Again...Connor was in the first episode of the TV series, but it really came into it's own in the 6 years that followed and...well...it grew apart from the original film.Plus, despite the fact that 14 years had passed between Highlander and Highlander End Game, Christopher Lambert who plays Connor aged 50 years and he's supposed to be playing an ageless immortal.It really could have done without him. It should have done without him.But they threw him in there anyway.And they tried to twist a story around the both of them, Connor and Duncan that never exactly worked. Whilst doing this, they sacrificed screen time for the supporting cast of the TV series that the fans all came to know and love.What they gave was a promise of turning the series into a movie franchise. What they returned was a movie that was afraid to let Duncan and the supporting cast stand alone (even though they did for 6 years) and made a film about an aging immortal and his cousin.Needless to say it failed and the producers, making just as many mistakes as they had in Highlander II--albeit entirely new ones--and in the process lost the opportunity to make the series into a movie franchise.Had they stayed with the theme of the television show, stayed true to those types of stories, it all would have gone over better. There were more stories to tell and they had a great cast to use.They blew it.

ikrani Right out of the gate, I'll admit it: Highlander Endgame isn't that good. In fact, the film has a lot of problems. For starters, there's a lot of elements and characters present that aren't explained in the film proper: the Watchers, the Sanctuary, the presence of other Immortals even though the Prize was supposedly won in the original Highlander, etc. The film's effects aren't as cool as they were in the original, in that they might be less dated but the spectacle isn't as awesome as watching Connor get lifted into the air in the middle of a vortex of animated demons. And there's a huge cop-out at the end that allows Duncan to get a happy ending even though it directly contradicts things the villain did in the film, and the movie doesn't even TRY to justify it.But, as someone who watched Highlander: The Series, who DOES know why there are other Immortals about, who KNOWS who the Watchers are and what the Sanctuary is, it's a pretty entertaining watch. Adrian Paul and Christopher Lambert (who looks like he's aged twenty years between Mortal Kombat and this) have perfect on-screen chemistry and really do feel like they've known each other for years. The bit parts for characters like Joe Dawson and Methos (both from the TV show) really make this feel like a true crossover.And then there's Bruce Payne as the villain, doing more or less the same thing he would go on to do in Dungeons & Dragons, only here he gets to be the badass overtyrant instead of the stooge. He does a great job at playing the kind of slimy bastard that you just love to hate. Even more impressive is his performance in the flashbacks, where he completely changes gears and plays a sympathetic bearded Scottish man who you've never guess would one day turn into Damodar Version 2.0 In A Fedora. The guy's a more versatile actor than we give him credit for.I hear the film was supposed to be the film that tied all the loose ends and brought the series full-circle. Well, since this film is in continuity with the series, and since the series retconned the original movie so that the original movie WASN'T the end of the Game, I really don't see wherethis thought came from. I know, movies should be able to stand on their own without needing other material, but since this movie was so transparently made for the fans of the TV show, I can forgive it for that.

Zorax Bijel All I can to say about this movie: Completely inconsistent with the previous movies. If you look at the films of the original trilogy, one can say that they can be interconnected by a common story. In the first movie - Connor Mac Leod wins the 'prise of mortality' after defeating all of his immortal rivals. In the second film, "The Quickening" - In the future, his immortality is restored because of the interference by the Immortals from another world (Gen. Katana and his minions). Finally, in the third movie, "The Sorcerer" - Storyline is moved in between the first and the second film, basically, it's an interquel. His archenemy Kane, who was trapped under the mountain cave for centuries, has found his way out after the archaeological excavation...considering that 'there can be only one', the battle continues. However, the fourth movie is completely out of continuum... Definitely unrelated to previous storyline of the Highlander movies.

Fenris Fil Unfortunately the "Highlander" concept has been heavily tainted by multiple visions from a variety of people and a constant push from the money men to milk it for all it's worth. Each individual addition thus far, while reasonable in isolation managed to damage the overall reputation of this franchise and directly damage the quality of the original classic movie when the whole thing is considered together.Now what they have done with this fourth movie is created something that can't even stand in isolation and when put together with everything else tears it all to pieces, spits on it and throws it in the bin, just for the sake of giving this particular piece some feeling of importance.One of my biggest pet peeves with movie sequels is when the writers of the latest piece decide to essentially re-write the whole thing and ignore where others have taken us up until this point. For better or worse, we have been taken to a point and it is just arrogance to assume you can re-write it all better then those that have gone before, while it shows limited skill to not be able to work inside that framework. There are many ways they could have made a tie in between the TV series and all the movies work, but they chose to make this a partial reboot instead.The Critical mistake they made was to belittle the original film. No franchise should dismiss the reason that it is a franchise. Although it would still annoy me, they could have gotten away with the partial reboot, if they had just ignored the 2nd and 3rd movie. They even would have gotten away with not fully following on from the series. But they couldn't resist messing with the original to the point that they almost totally dismissed the events of film as meaningless and so it's no surprise that this has scored the low rating it has here on the IMDb.I watched the whole of the series as well as all the films and this movie fails to adequately fit in with any of it. One day I hope movie makers will learn that you either need to do a full reboot or get people capable of working with what they already have. Don't just let the new guys mess up everyone that went before them.