Solemplex To me, this movie is perfection.

Hayden Kane There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

Derrick Gibbons An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Marva It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

FlashCallahan There can't be only one.... ......Version of this film. A review of The Renegade Version We first see Macleod in make up that was borrowed by Van Damme in the present day scenes of The Quest, an old man weary of sequels and with a voice that sounds like he is immortality constipated. It's not long before two maniacal birdmen lay siege to him, and he returns to his make up free age, along with his rock ballad hair. What should have been a fun scene is ruined by poorly staged choreography and confusing focus on the action. The audience know that these immortals can die by beheading, so why Mulcahy decides to focus on a headless body exploding beggars belief. But this early set piece does feature the funniest scene in the film, when a drunken onlooker asks one of the antagonists for a light. Predictably, it all goes downhill from there. Whichever version you see, the film remains one of the most incoherent films ever released, virtually ignoring the narrative from the first movie. This version almost completely ignores the alien aspect of the film, and the planet Zeitgeist, Macleod and Ramirez are just banished to earth by being covered in neon purple while looking a little agitated. But the film has that strange gift of having several scenes that are worth seeing alone, on a separate clip compilation. Any scene with Connery is a sheer joy, even if it's just to see him have the look of a man who is being paid presumably millions for a couple of days work consisting of smoking cigars and drinking whiskey, the man doesn't have a care in the world. Elsewhere, Ironside hams it up as the villain, finding it utterly hilarious to kill dozens of innocent people by driving a subway really really fast, and being pun-tastic whilst doing so. Bearing in mind he would have never understood the concept of modern transportation. Virginia Madsen pops up as the love interest, but you soon lose interest when you see her make love to Macleod literally minutes after him turning from a shrivelled member to a boss-eyed hero. It's a tragedy for sure, lots to criticise, but lots to laugh at. The fight scenes are slow, the effects are far from special, but when you are watching a film where a Scotsman is playing a Spaniard by wearing a little fake tan, being allies with a Parisian playing a Scotsman whom both use their natural accents, are you really looking for consistency? Plus when the Quickening happens, it looks like Macleod is guiltily climaxing whilst suffering from awkward constipation. And they all have big perfect hair. A tragedy, but a magnificent one...... Hopefully they will release the Coherent cut one day, or even a Rock Of Ages cut.

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.

SnoopyStyle The year is 2024. The planet is protected by a shield after the ozone layer is gone. In 1999, mortal Connor MacLeod (Christopher Lambert) help created the shield to save the world after Brenda's death. Back in 2024, David Blake (John C. McGinley) runs the corporation that operates the shield. Louise Marcus (Virginia Madsen) discovers that the ozone layer has actually been restored. An elderly Connor is attacked by two killers. Connor beheads them. There is a Quickening and Juan Sánchez Villa-Lobos Ramírez (Sean Connery) is resurrected. In flashbacks, Connor and Juan are rebels on the planet Zeist against the tyrannical rule of General Katana (Michael Ironside). They were captured and sentenced to battle on Earth in the Quickening contest. Katana had sent the two killers for Connor.WTF. WTF. The original ended in an odd place for a sequel. There are more interesting ways to revive the Quickening. Connor was given an interesting power. Somebody started to pile on crazy story elements to try to connect all the dots and fail miserably. Going forward into the future with crazy ozone layer talk is sci-fi gobbledygook. It is bad writing that is compounded by the interstellar origin story. The whole thing is madness and destroyed the franchise for me.

Aaron Taylor This movie is terrible. It has absolutely no redeeming features at all. The movie makes no attempts to have any connection at all with the first, even while having the same actors and in the case of Sean Connery, the same wardrobe. This film is one of the laziest films ever conceived, not just in terms of a sequel, but as a film in general. I bought this movie thinking it was the first movie (the sticker for the 2 for $20 was on the 2 and I was kind of in a rush) and I must say, this was one of the most disappointing lumps of crap I have ever watched, not that the first movie is a masterpiece but it did have nostalgic value. Safe to say, I did not request a refund due to my own negligence to read the back of the case, and it has never been viewed again. These are films that are so bad, that they are amazingly fun to watch, The Room, HardRock Zombies, Blacula, this is not one of those movies. After watching this movie, it's safe to say that Christopher Lambert is one of the worst actors to have ever lived, and Sean Connery obviously got his paycheck and never looked at this lump of crap franchise again. The only thing that could've made this movie worse, would be if it was directed by Joel Schumacher.