#ROGER DALTREY HIGHLANDER SERIES#
Peter Wingfield and Jim Byrnes reprise their roles from the series as Methos and Joe Dawson, and there’s a special appearance by Adam Copeland, better known as the WWE’s “Edge”. Donnie Yen is the most honorable of Kell’s henchmen, Jin Ke.
Now, in 2000, she is fashion designer Faith and she is wicked pissed at Duncan for making her Immortal and depriving her of children. She plays Kate, who, in the 1700s, was Duncan’s wife. There’s quite a supporting cast in this film, which is topped by Lisa Barbuscia, a model and musician. He actually has a good reason for hating Connor. Kell is portrayed by Bruce Payne (great name there) and unlike the villains of the previous two films he’s not a cutout. Paul is as good in the film as he is in the series - a sort of cardboard boy-scout good-guy character with very little darkness in him despite everything he’s done. However, top billing goes to Adrian Paul, star of the Highlander television series, now sporting short hair. In addition to a spectacularly-ancient-looking Christopher Lambert as the supposedly-immortal Connor MacLeod, Shelia Gish and Beatie Edney reprise their roles (however brief) as Rachel and Heather (the latter being Connor’s first wife, from the 1500s). Things come to a head between the MacLeods and Kell, and as we know, there can be only one. We see several adventures of Connor and Duncan in the past, including when Connor taught Duncan the “unbeatable move” - one would think he’d have used that at some point in the last three films. They explain that Kell has killed 661 Immortals, more than Duncan and Connor combined.Įventually it’s revealed that Connor is still alive. Shortly after, Duncan is sent to the Sanctuary, only to be rescued by Methos and his (Duncan’s) Watcher, Joe Dawson. Kell and his guys go to New York and face off against Duncan, but the only death is from Kell, who kills one of his henchmen. Kell is powerful and ruthless, and he hates Connor for killing his mentor, while Connor hates him for killing his mother. Meanwhile, the villain of the piece, Jacob Kell, goes to the Sanctuary and kills all the immortals there with the exception of Connor - I’m still not sure how he escaped, or who let him free. He has a prophetic dream and visits his friend Methos, the oldest Immortal on the planet, before heading to New York to see if he can figure out what happened to Connor ten years ago. Now, in 2002, Duncan MacLeod (Connor’s cousin and friend) is still secluded, meditating, trying to find himself after (in the series) killing his protege Richie and getting the It’s a Wonderful Life treatment from Roger Daltrey **.
There, the Watchers keep several immortals out of The Game (the worldwide headhunting competition with a nebulous “prize” to go to the last survivor) so that no one can be the last. Devastated that he’s lost everyone he loves, Connor joins up with the Watchers, a group dedicated to chronicling the lives of the immortals, and agrees to go into the Sanctuary. More than once.Īlthough set in 2002 *, four years after the end of Highlander: The Series, the film actually begins in 1992, when Connor MacLeod arrives at his New York shop/apartment just in time to see it blown up, taking the life of Rachel Ellenstein, the young girl he adopted during (I believe) World War II.
#ROGER DALTREY HIGHLANDER MOVIE#
In other words… someone made Highlander: Endgame, the fourth movie in the series.
#ROGER DALTREY HIGHLANDER TV#
If the third film bombs, maybe you’ll be lucky enough to get your intellectual property turned into a TV series that gets passable ratings and hangs around for six years - long enough to justify a fourth film in the series. When that sequel bombs, you get to make another sequel. What do you do after your 1986 movie achieves cult status? Well, if you’re lucky, you get to make a sequel. The following review contains spoilers for the first three Highlander films and the television series.
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