never in the field of human endeavour have there be an act of such instrumental and destructive and diabolical folly a this justifiably revile and quasi sequel to the original 1986 fantasy in which immortal warrior duel throughout the age until one remain . yes and it highlander ii a film so bad that robert mugabe refuse to show it to white farmer on the ground that it would be exceptionally cruel . need to grasp on to a strand of optimism and perhaps only the thickness of a human hair and i long ago decide that the film exist purely a a textbook demonstration for future filmmaker on how not to make a successful sequel to a hit movie . this theory alone explain the cynicism on screen and the ham fisted and slapdash and car crash handling of the material . don not misunderstand while i be not say this thing be poor poor would be generous praise for a frankenstein fantasy in which all the invention and both visual and conceptual and inherent in the first film appeal be fritter to nothing . in fact and the totality of the word already use be only the mere fraction of those require to accurately portray the near total devastation that wash over me a i sit through it ( i be ashamed to say not for the only time ) on a stormy night 14 year ago . russell mulchay deserves to be poison and broad beaten with a tent pole in the male rumination for his decision to helm the whole sorry affair and grind his original good work to dust . it hardly need say but the problem for anyone script a highlander ii be that highlander i conclude business comprehensively with no outlet for a second episode . to get around this the maker of the quicken simply decide to ditch the back story of the original film and invent a new one which would enable them to write around the fact that all the immortal and bar m. lambert be and not unlike themselves and dead from the neck up . so although mccloud be originally bear in scotland and ramierez in er and egypt and now they be alien from a planet call zeist while handy and because this new ancestry mean that all that be need to reengergise the concept be that another visitor show up on earth and the game can begin again . to fully appreciate how awful an idea this be you need only imagine a star war sequel in which the action be suddenly set in present day earth for reason of plot convenience or a second instalment of titanic in which it reveal that jack and rise be actually time traveller and be thus able to prevent the disaster and save all their friend . thus highlander ii be effectively the one line joke in the player in which the writer of the graduate pitch the terrible sequel writ large and for real . we can only imagine that the owner of the original film be desperate for more because nothing but desperation could possibly explain how this make it to the screen . if blame be slurry and require apportioning by eu agricultural directive then you would need roughly 6 tanker worth and each contain somewhere in the region of 40 and 000 tonne . the shame of sean connery and christopher lambert be palpable and everyone who felt any enjoyment during this picture be consciously and deliberately complicit in it evil work . a a purely commercial enterprise with no respect or consideration for the 1st film or it fan and we can only hope that all involve lose million and that have lose their deposit they be force to sell themselves into sexual slavery . highlander iii and not exactly itself a great sequel and ignore this one completely a ironically it leave no outlet for a third episode but it too be a cynical cash in and could only continue the first film by ignore it end whereas the forth in the series simply do not bother with the first film at all and opt instead to go with the spin off t. v series . that the way the rot spread but here where it start now please hollywood . never again .