Highlander II: The Quickening Review

Highlander II: The Quickening
In the year 2025, the ozone layer ihas been all but destroyed have been destroyed. Connor MacLeod and Juan Rameriz swoop in to help save the world. They face a battle with the planet Ziest and a money grabbing company seeking to profit from the lack of ozone.

by Kim Newman |
Published on
Release Date:

01 Jan 1991

Running Time:

91 minutes

Certificate:

15

Original Title:

Highlander II: The Quickening

A totally incoherent sequel to the imaginative but not exactly perfect original, with aliens from the Planet Zanussi persecuting Christopher Lambert in a murky future hell of post-ozone degradation. Sean Connery dragged back from death for a bare-faced cameo, Michael Ironside sneering as a dictator of the universe who can only summon two evil followers, and Virginia Madsen wondering what the hell she’s got into.

With a plot that swallows itself, a series of story premises that will have you scratching your head, and some very tired visual fireworks from director Russell Mulcahy, who seems to have graduated from promising to has-been without passing through success.

No plot, no real story, no point really.

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