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Finally we have what can now be called a worthy sequal
Highlander 2: The Quikening, has now been officially renamed <
>to simply: Highlander 2. The edition I am reviewing, is stating, it's "The Renegade Edition". However it was released only last year (2005 at the time of writing) and seems to fit with what folks are saying for this edition. I also own the original theatrical version and it's nice that the shield is now blue as opposed to the original red, which was possibly the silliest move in the movies creation ever. Good ridance to that. <
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>I did like the fact that Highlander became a Sci-Fi as I'm a big fan of the genre. This is why many folks did not like this sequal. Not necessarily because the film is bad(I for one, disagree with this), simply because it took there beloved fantasy and turned it into something which was explainable within a Sci-Fi context. To this day, it's still the wish of the majority of Highlander fans that this film simply be dropped from the Highlander canon. <
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>For those fans, please do take a look at this edition. The added material is fantastic and a god send for this sequal. Now the movie has a story which follows on from the original while still keeping the planet Zeist and the explanation of where the immortals come from intact. It also has a much better beginning and keeps McCloud more authentic. <
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>The scene were the hole in the shield is investigated is superb and the working of the Sci-Fi concepts into the story finally makes sense. Admittedly it's not perfect sense with the feel that there should be a little more on the war on Zeist and tie-ins when McCloud is remembering that peice the build up to the creation of the shield with the events in the first movie. However as a big fan of the movie "Cashern", one thing I do like in movie is when not everything is explained in detail and things just happen. Life is like that. Things are not always explained in painful detail and most of the time, events occur around us in ways that we are not expecting. <
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>Overall I would actually rate this movie 3.5, however the rating system only allows full stars. What it could still do with is more fillers(if only there was more footage). For example, the only scene that gets on my nerves now is where all our heroes are stuck in a detention cell in a maximum security centre and a spinning blade that covers the entire ceiling is spinning down to chop them into little peices. I liked how Sean Connerys character comes to the rescue with his style and flare, however it would have been better if they could have shown him transporting back to Zeist and a brief session with the council. <
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>The over the top ending where guards are being fired at all over the place etc, has gone and we are presented with a straight show down and the destruction of the now defunct shield generator. <
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>Besides the miraculous rescue scene where Connery disappears and the lack of build up in the relationship between McCloud and his new girlfriend(they begin kissing passionately after they have only just met, but I said to myself, it's because he's a recharged immortal and like Bond, has this way with women. What else could it be?) <
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>The deleted scenes were nice and there were some really great scenes in there. I was totally horrified however at an alternate ending scene were McCloud and his newly aquainted girlfriend turn into spirits and twirl off into the stars. Apparently that's what happens in America when the theatrical is broadcast on national television.(Fellow fans you need to see this version). <
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>Thankfully that ending is not in either of the versions I saw and I never want to see it again. <
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>Overall for those of you who liked the idea of the sequal despite it's terrible editing originally, you will adore this. For those of you who didn't like the change from fantasy to Sci-Fi, you may find some good in this but are highly advised to stick to the original only. <
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>Sean.

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Hollywood wrecking a great movie saga, at least this version's of this stinker the special effects are better
The only reason I gave this movie 4 stars in the fact I am just a big highlander fan, and Christopher Lambert fan, but honestly this is a really a 2 star movie. This special edition of Highlander II (originally Highlander II:the quickening) is a much improved version of the redone 1996 renegade version, as far as effects, but the story is still the same junky one as then. They reworked much of the Backgrounds and that puke red-brown skyline, which never mached the dark blue steets. The overall film is much better quality of picture than the original renegade version as well. Again, this is a film that was never intended to be a sequal to the first one, but unfortunately exectutives in hollywood fumble that punt return. In all, this edition is the one Highlander fans have been waiting for of this version of the film, at least effects wise, the story is the same though. It difficult to fix something that was so flawed to begin with. Looking back on the mess, at least the original Quickening version was so outragiously bad of an adaptation that it was fun to watch for the mistakes in editing, and there were a bunch. Try and Enjoy, worth a viewing.

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BRING BACK PLANET ZEIST!
Ok, so I know that will never happen. H2 seems to make more sense with the idea of Immortals coming from another planet. Since they have reworked this movie to edit out the planet, things really don't sync up anymore. For instance, they are claiming now that the immortals are teleported from a distant past to fight in more modern times....Ok then why transport them to the year 1500??...That doesn't seem like modern times to me...and further more, the weapons they have in the distant past are better than the weapons they have in modern times. <
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>Like I said, the movie doesn't sync up. You need the planet Zeist back in this version. <
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>All that aside, this DVD is worth the money for the features alone. If you are a highlander than you need this version for all the interviews with the writers and actors. The feature "seduced by argentina" is probably worth it alone for this movie. Listening to the writers will give you a new respect for H2. You will see that there was a spirit of a good sequel. Because of money, H2 was destined to fail. If this movie was actually finished, and edited by the writers and directors and now some outside party, Highlander as we know it would be a totally different universe. <
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>Also, Sound, and new graphics make the movie a lot more pleasing to the eye. <
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>If you're into Sci-fi and love Highlander, you'll dig this movie. I think the best thing about Highlander is it's like a choose your own adventure story. You the viewer have the ability to make out whatever outcome to the Highlander saga with the various sequels that have come out.