Highlander II: The Quickening
Highlander II: The Quickening
R | 01 November 1991 (USA)
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In the year 2024, the ozone layer is believed to have been destroyed, and it's up to MacLeod and Ramirez to set things right. Opposition comes from both the planet Ziest (MacLeod and Ramirez's homeworld) and a corporation profiting from the supposed lack of ozone. Also, flashbacks show the story behind MacLeod and Ramirez's exile from Ziest.

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nilen-51573

I remember seeing this as a small child. Maybe I was 6 years old. I really liked American action films. I had a illusion that big costly movies can really be bad. The reason for this is that so much money is spent on it and so many persons are involved and looking at the script. This movie destroyed that. Its so awful.

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Ruairidh MacVeigh

I've heard so much about the wretchedness of this movie, and also because I'm a huge fan of the original, I really had to sit down and watch this apparently hilariously bad movie. So, I sat down, watched it, and found myself laughing my socks off the whole way through! This movie is just so bad on so many levels, and boggles the mind so many times, you really can't help but laugh. I mean, was this meant to be an action movie? Because the decisions made in the practically non-existent story and the almost impossible events that occur will leave you in stitches!So what's the muffin? In 1994 the Ozone layer is fading, and thus a mortal Connor MacLeod comes up with a shield that will block out the sun and thus save the planet, at the expense of the fact that it would cause ecological devastation and wipe out humanity in many other ways, but whatever. Anyway, apparently the Immortals from the last movie weren't just a select few for an unknown reason, no, no, they were aliens, banished from the Planet Zeist 5,000 years earlier to earth and granted immortality as punishment(?!) Hey, if that's punishment, sign me up for more!Anyway, because the evildoer who runs Zeist named General Katana (imaginative name if ever there was one) is apparently bored and he decides 5,000 years after MacLeod left the planet that he should now kill him, and thus teams up with the evil leader of the Planetary Shield to hunt down and destroy MacLeod.So, what specifically is wrong with this movie? Well, apart from the fact that it takes everything established in the previous movie and turns it on its head is a bad start. The number of gaping plot holes in this movie would be enough to sink Greenland, for example, how calling someone's name can make them magically appear from the dead? What on earth happened there?!But it get's worse, the acting is as hokey as you could possibly get, the special effects are laughably fake, the fight choreography isn't as good as the original, the villain, and for that matter any of the other characters, have nothing to make them interesting, and basically, if you happened to watch this movie first rather than the original movie, you wouldn't know who any of these characters are because there is little to no reference to the original. The idea of a sequel is to build on the previous movie with at least some reference to it so as to enhance the story, but this one appears to be made up as it goes!Overall, it's a jumbled mess, but incredibly funny to watch. I was just astounded the first time I saw this as to how wrong they could possibly make this film! I totally recommend you watch this film if you're in the mood for a laugh, especially if you've seen the previous film, because like myself you'll probably be giggling till your sides hurt!

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pedrola182

Yeah you know its just like I said the best movie I've watched in my whole life. Watch it with your kids!Watch it with your wife! Watch it while making love! (I REALLY recommend, did this a thousand times) Love how they explain things. You know, the ending, my god, my head was blown off, just like the entire movie, cause after watching the first one, this one made my crazy! Cause, you know, I think it REALLY is the best movie I've watched. Sooooooo good. And the acting. OH. MY. GOD. You know, when I first watched it I thought it was not going to be a good movie because of some actors. You know, I love Sean Connery and like (just a little bit) of Christopher Lambert. But the another actors that appear on the movie, you know, I played the movie thinking "ok this is gonna be horrible" BUT I'm wrong, again. All the actors should, right now, just get an Oscar for this movie. Seriously, clapping my hand for you guys. Especially for Virginia Madsen. Man, she rocked it the whole movie. And the plot. Oh, the plot. It's the most complicated plot I've ever seen in movies, but it works so well. Really has a beginning, a middle and an ending. And IT ROCKS!!!! BEST MOVIE EVER!!! As always, have a nice day and be #TeamHighlander2.

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Dirty-English-99

Years after battling the Kurgan in Scotland and New York, Connor MacLeod and his suave mentor, Juan Villa-Lobos Ramirez, are back, tracking time warps and are having new adventures. The Kurgan may have been vanquished, remember decapitation is the only way of being killed if you are a highlander - but now there are new and more powerful foes to counter in an even more hostile world.This film starred: Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery &Michael Ironside.Sometimes if films are so bad, I can enjoy them like Batman and Robin, however I can't even enjoy this one because it is so bad it makes you cringe your life away. Stick to the first film as this and probably the other sequels are a waste of time.

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