![]() Nue, Robert Feretti, Tracy Granger, Rod Dean, Donald J. Screenplay, Joel Soisson story, Eric Bernt, Gillian Horvath, William Panzer, based on characters created by Gregory Widen.Ĭamera (Deluxe Color prints, widescreen), Doug Milsome editors, Christopher Blunden, Michael N. Executive producers, Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein, Cary Granat. Cutting is down to the bone all the way.Ī Miramax release of a Dimension Films presentation of a Davis/Panzer production. ![]() With Lambert locked into autodrive, the only one who seems to be seriously working for his paycheck is Paul, but he’s paddling upstream against the boneheaded script and average f/x.ĭoug Milsome’s handsome widescreen lensing of Romanian locations serves only to emphasize the lack of craft at other levels. Hong Kong action star Donnie Yen makes a brief impression with his trademark whiplash style as one of Jacob’s posse. ![]() Thesps resolutely play it for the moment, with Payne crunching out lines like “You are my flock you nourish my soul” (before decapitating his dinner guests) and the highly photogenic Barbuscia looking like she’s strayed off a fashion shoot. The sheer raggedness of the plotting - and the pic’s cynical disdain toward audiences - is staggering, with no dramatic benefits emerging from the beam-me-up script. It’s another half-hour of chaotic window-dressing before the final duel takes place, but first Connor and Duncan have to work out their differences, as only one Immortal is allowed to battle another. Halfway through the picture, Connor, Duncan and Jacob finally meet in a graveyard, but Connor wimps out of taking Jacob on. ![]() Duncan is angry at Connor for leaving him alone and opting out of Immortal society. Kate, now an Immortal known as Faith, with her own New York designer label, is angry at Duncan for robbing her of a normal life and motherhood. Jacob has been pursuing Connor across the centuries, killing his loved ones along the way (e.g., Sheila Gish, with scarcely a minute’s screen time) and even signing up on his team Kate (model-singer Lisa Barbuscia), an 18th century squeeze of Connor’s protege, Duncan (Paul). That Connor did this while escaping from imminent immolation at the stake engineered by Jacob is apparently irrelevant. Jacob is on a mission to become the sole Immortal on the planet, and is also majorly pissed with fellow time traveler Connor MacLeod (Lambert), who accidentally skewered Jacob’s dad in Scotland back in 1555. There’s also an underground cavern called the Sanctuary, a kind of Zen gas station where the few remaining Immortals strap themselves to uncomfortable metal frames and fill up their spiritual tanks.īefore you can say “unleaded,” fellow Immortal Jacob Kell arrives and separates his colleagues’ heads from their bodies, upping his personal score to 600-plus. Story whizzes back and forth among 16th and 17th century Scotland, 17th century Italy, 18th century Ireland, Gotham 10 years ago and the present. Perhaps no one told him that “Highlander: Endgame” was supposed to be a feature film that may account for why it plays like a collection of clips in which the same characters happen to appear. Task of, um, direction fell to Douglas Aarniokoski, a protege of Robert Rodriguez who’s also made several marketing trailers for Miramax/Dimension. Nine producers, four writers and seven editors bumped heads to come up with 88 minutes of footage (including credits) whereby Adrian Paul, star of the 1990s TV spinoff, takes the pic franchise over from Christopher Lambert. At the Alliance Atlantis promo screening caught in Montreal, audience of popcorn munchers remained slack-jawed throughout. Pic was not given any press previews by distrib Miramax.
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