
In New York City, the owner of a sophisticated antique shop Russell Edwin Nash is challenged to a sword fight in the parking lot of the Madison Square Garden by a man called Iman Fasil that is beheaded by Russell. He hides his sword and is arrested by the police while leaving the stadium. Russell recalls his life in the sixteenth century in Scotland, when he is Connor MacLeod, and is fatally wounded in a battle against another Clan. However, he surprisingly survives and his C... (Full plot summary below)
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In New York City, the owner of a sophisticated antique shop Russell Edwin Nash is challenged to a sword fight in the parking lot of the Madison Square Garden by a man called Iman Fasil that is beheaded by Russell. He hides his sword and is arrested by the police while leaving the stadium. Russell recalls his life in the sixteenth century in Scotland, when he is Connor MacLeod, and is fatally wounded in a battle against another Clan. However, he surprisingly survives and his Clan believes he has a pact with the devil and expels him from their lands. Then he meets Juan Sanchez Villa-Lobos Ramirez, who explains that he is immortal unless he is beheaded. Further, the immortals dispute a game killing each other and in the end only one survives receiving a prize with the power of the other immortals. Russell is released by the police, but the snoopy forensic agent Brenda J. Wyatt is attracted by the case since she found fragments of an ancient Katana and follows Russell. But the also immortal Kurgan is hunting down MacLeod, and Brenda is in the middle of their battle.
Leave your thoughts about Highlander.
| Time OutDerek AdamsIt's a lot of utterly preposterous fun, even if it doesn't quite hang together. |
| Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)Ken Hanke"There can only be one!" And that's one too many. |
| IGN DVDR. L. ShafferA bit clumsy in spots, but Highlander is a thoroughly entertaining action-fantasy picture. |
| The Film YapNick RogersBefore it came to a thudding halt with a craven, creatively bankrupt franchise cash-grab, the rich world of "Highlander" - in all its bombast and bereavement - was, and is, worth getting lost in for two hours. |
| CineVueAdam LowesHighlander is the visual counterpart to rock band Queen (who supply a number of songs on the soundtrack) - big, brash and operatic filmmaking of the highest order. |
| IGN DVDR.L. ShafferA bit clumsy in spots, but Highlander is a thoroughly entertaining action-fantasy picture. |
| Sci-Fi Movie PageJames O'EhleyLambert is likeable as the highlander of the title and the villain is quite memorable and steals the show. |
| Movie MetropolisJohn J. PuccioMaybe it was the sheer audacity of the film's silliness that made it so popular or the brief, swaggering presence of Connery. |
| BBC.comMatt FordA truly heroic stomp through time and space. |
| Kansas City KansanSteve CrumOK fantasy adventure film that has achieved cult status to many. |