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List Price: $26.98 Our Price: $19.99 You Save: $6.99 Features • AC-3 • Closed-captioned • Color • Dolby • DVD-Video • Subtitled • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 2006 DVD Release : 26 February, 2008 |
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Highlander: The Source description With spinoffs including live action and animated films and television series, comic books, and more, the Highlander franchise has yielded its fair share of noble moments over the years, starting with the original film in 1986. But while Highlander 5: The Source has some cool special effects work and enough video game violence to enthrall adolescent boys, longtime fans agree that this made-for-TV flick is, to put it mildly, no Oscar contender. Adrian Paul, reprising the role he played in Highlander: Endgame (2000) and the Highlander TV series, is Duncan MacLeod, the ageless Scotsman hailing from the 16th Century. The storyline isn't easy to decipher, but it has to do with the imminent cosmic alignment of the planets and other celestial bodies, which will lead to "the moment of the Source," wherein lies the secret to the origin of MacLeod and his crew's immortality. (A note about the film's tagline, "The quest for mortality begins": Seems that being immortal ain't all it's cracked up to be; not only can these guys die, but they are unable to breed, which is a big problem for Duncan and his mortal girlfriend, hence his plan to locate the Source and become, you know, a regular dude.) This is generic comic book stuff, taking place in a crumbling, Road Warrior-esque world populated by characters with names like The Elder, The Guardian, The Watchers, and The Ancient One. The script, by Stephen Kelvin Watkins and Mark Bradley, is fraught with big, portentous statements, while director Brett Leonard seems more interested in staging the next fight sequence than giving us a clue as to what's actually going on. If this is the end of the Highlander story, and many seem to think it will be, fans had every right to hope for a more dignified death knell than The Source. --Sam Graham |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | The biggest of disappointments... |
| The plot and individual issues have been covered pretty well by numerous other reviewers. I will just say that mere moments into the movie, I knew it was going to be horrible... and it was... I made myself watch it because I'm a huge fan of Highlander; the movies, and series. All that I could think was that I was embarrassed for the people in the movie who had been a part of the previous shows/movies. I could not believe that none of the three of these people had the dignity to refuse to do such a horrible injustice to an otherwise great franchise. (excluding Highlander 2). Imagine my disappointment to note at the end of the movie that David Abramowitz was the writer and Adrian Paul one of the Executive Producers... I guess it just goes to show what people will do for money.
On a parallel note... I watched the commentary by Adrian Paul on the Highlander Episode - Prophecy, in which he said that he wished that they had not done the show because Highlander, while fiction, had always been based as much as possible in reality, and that episode delved into the realm of Fantasy. And yet he not only starred in, but produced this movie... Amazing. I believe that for fans of the the Franchise, you would be better served to not even watch this and prevent these 86 minutes from poisoning your love of the otherwise great experience that is Highlander. |
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