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Highlander: The Director's Cut. Here we have the main villain killing our title character merrily in the film so you're not really getting much of a squalor here. Sean Connery also makes an appearance in this film. Christopher Lambert gives I think the best performance he has during in this movie. The source material is a little bit silly but he pulled it off with some snatch as he appears dying in the Scottish battlefield. But don't worry he's gonna come back. And don't worry this isn't a hack. I mean fall for this (indecipherable) and this being having Juliana on it. So here we have him remembering it and then yeah. As you could see the film grain is not as full in this film. They made it like an 86 or 85 I think when they actually shot it. So that's why you actually see so much grain in the film process here. Definitely not high def by any means. Oh it's on DVD. This film basically the story is you have an immortal highlander played by Christopher Lambert and he's to face off against another immortal and there's lot of swords an then because they'll to fight each other in duel because whoever wins in the duel gets the other guy's life force. And apparently they can't really be killed by any other means except if they chop off their head which is why they use swords all the time. And the movie I mean has great some laid action sequences and a standout performance from Lambert. I mean I've always expected him to do as well in this film as he did in his future ones but I was kinda disappointed. I don't know why. Maybe it's just you know they wished they have made a sequel with Lambert released soon after this one instead of just waiting a while because all the sequels to this film and on the television after this film is mediocre. I mean I don't know why. I mean this film also teeters on the brink of mediocrity. It is a B movie and it does not hold up on reviewing but you know in your memory if you saw this in the 80s and remember it then just let memories be because you know it really was a good movie for its time as a B movie. And if you keep that in your memory and you don't go back to revisit it it'll always be great. But when you actually visit it as I'm doing now you'll find that it is well in some parts superimposed with another. Well the set design is just I don't know crummy. I mean a lot of great that's the line about here I mean it looks totally thrown together with excess of textiles and lack of lighting which reminds me of the worst stage productions where they just throw textiles everywhere and then they have you know none natural lighting. One of the major parts of this film is Sean Connery playing the mentor character. He comes in later on. And he just really steals all the scenes at the end and really makes this film a cut above the B movie that it is. I mean it's a great B movie for what it is but not that great simple acting this is a great film of the 80s. This is definitely a guy movie. Here see the police investigation based upon the duel at the beginning of this movie. As you could see a lot of dark just really dark and grainy it's hard to actually see anything here. That's one of the downsides of this movie. Yeah. So if you're looking for a B movie and you're a guy and 70 80s just go for it. I mean it has Sean Connery. It has Christopher Lambert. You could do much worse in this film. You could also probably do better but you know there's really no other movie like this about immortals you know walking by day and night trying to hide without swords. I mean it's pretty cool for a movie. And the sad thing is they never able to do a sequel which held up to it. I mean this is an amazing swordsmanship. This is B movie stuff and they can't even make another B movie based on the same swordsmanship that was great of it. They came to make a TV show as great as the original material. And it end which of which it was that great you know. It's like an oxymoron or a paradox. The swordsmanship isn't that great and yet they can't measure eve up to even that. So you kinda wonder what's going on. Maybe it's casting. Maybe the film wouldn't hold together coz Sean Connery and this other crew is in it or news from the whole presses the concept. But I thought anything could happen before they kind of got locked into the later tradition and it's stereotype and it went on and then they pulled any series. Highlander when I first saw it you know back in the 80s I would give it like a nine or ten out of ten but now I'm just giving it a six out of ten. And it's a great six out of ten but you know it's definitely not a seven or eight just a six. So six out of ten. Highlander.