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These are issues in the news. Sometimes we are owed a courtesy flush. When you love your job so much that you are afraid to lose it, that is the day you stop doing your job. | Highlander: Lowflyer Crashes and Burns! Highlander: Endgame--the movie. This movie was only an hour long. Pokemon took more time on the silver screen.
For those of you who do not know, the Highlander is a story about immortal men and women beheading each other to be the sole survivor--the way we wish CBS had done it.
Sadly, however, Hollywood could not resist a sequel, and like Jason, Michael and Freddy before the Highlander, immortality was hard to shake. So the saga continued with Highlander: The Gathering (1993) and Highlander: The Final Dimension (1994). Recognizing the sequels were horrible, Hollywood fixed the mess by employing a child's solution--they called a do-over. Which brings us to Highlander: Endgame. Hollywood just pretended that the prior sequels did not exist. In fact, even the ending of the first movie was ignored. So, now no one has won the prize and the path is cleared for even more sequels. Still Hollywood does not get it! The first Highlander film was cool because in spite of a weak ending the movie had the coolest soundtrack from the coolest band--Queen. This latest, pathetic, one hour film was made to tie in with the tv series (starring Adrian Paul as Duncan MacLeod--cousin to Connor), which had also ignored the prior two sequels and the ending of the first movie. So if you pay to see this movie, you paid for a long trailer (short movie) for the tv show.
If this sequel had created a rock opera, like the original, it may have taken on a life of its own. Instead, with all the flashbacks and do-overs, I cannot see how anyone, whether they have seen the prior movies and tv series or not, can follow the plot (and the changes) without at least the little bit of an explanation given here. Unless you liked the remake of the Avengers (1998), avoid Highlander: Endgame. If you never saw the prior movies or the tv series, you won't be able to follow this movie. For those of us who have seen the others, it would have made more sense for a British officer to appear on the set of this movie at the start, condemn the prior sequels as silly and then for a giant foot to come from the sky and crush them. Then at least this latest sequel would have made sense in a Monty Python sort of way.
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For this issue of the Upper East Cider I try my hand at movie reviewing. Do not worry: there are no spoilers. The movie was rotten already.
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