Highlander 2 - Renegade Version (The Director's Cut)
by Russell Mulcahy
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Actor: Allan Rich, Christopher Lambert, Michael Ironside, Sean Connery, Virginia MadsenDirector: Russell Mulcahy
Brand: Lions Gate
Producer: Alejandro Sessa
Producer: Chris Chrisafis
Producer: Donald P. Borchers
Writer: Brian Clemens
Writer: Gregory Widen
Writer: Peter Bellwood
Writer: William N. Panzer
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Letterboxed, NTSC, THX, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 91 minutes
Published: 2001-10-01
DVD Release Date: 2001-10-23
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Republic Pictures
Movie Reviews of Highlander 2 - Renegade Version (The Director's Cut)
Movie Review: A large scale, futuristic action movie with a charismatic star.
Summary: 5 Stars
Four stars for this great looking futuristic environmentally theme action movie. And an extra star for the producers and director for having the tenacity to get the movie back to it's original intent. Of course, along the way they fixed up some of their own errors in judgement, too. Now the movie plays as well with the original.
When Loyds of London, who insured this movie, took over, they assembled the story in chronological order. This was not the intent of the director, who had planned the flash back style used in the first film. This type of story depends on the flashback style.
Some reviewers suggest that the additional 16 minutes are not so important. But I say, that's one sixth of an entire movie. Movies, such as "High Noon" have been made or broken on a mere 10 minutes of screen time.
The movie is filmed in 2:35 aspect ratio by the cameraman that went on to do "GoldenEye", and looks beautiful. The dramatic stylized lighting makes Lambert more intense and strikingly handsome than in the original.
He's an old man for the first 30 minutes of this movie, giving the story a real feeling of mortality vs. immortality. After killing his first attackers he is re-energized and youthened. Now he is able to find out the truth about the ozone protective shield he helped build. He'll try to get control away from the corrupt businessmen that now exploits the shield and the population of the planet. Very timely.
Lambert does all his own stunts in this movie, including the hover board flying and the ride down the top of an outside elevator. No blue screens or effects in both cases. It's great to see a large scale beautiful looking movie without the sometimes unrealistic looking CGI effects that are used today.
Sean Connery and Lambert are no longer teacher and student. Now they are equals. Culp and Cosby of the future. There's lots of humor to enjoy here, especially on Connery's part. To answer the question about how Connery came back from the dead, "Hey.......It's a kind of magic."
All the supporting actors are recognizable faces, with Michael Ironside using twisted humor as he stomps around the world creating havoc. Like taking a subway train on a high speed joy ride, crashing it, killing the passengers, and then announcing to the dead with glee, "Last stop." It's just the kind of thing a psychopath immortal would do.
As far as one reviewer complaining about Lambert "walking up to some strange woman and has sex with her up against a stone wall." She's the leading lady, they already established contact, went for a ride, and she watched him survive the first battle, and become young, handsome and frisky, and she needed his help to find the truth about the ozone shield. And besides, what two consenting (obviously consenting) adult mortal and immortals do, in the privacy of their own back alley in the future is their business. Plus, they got that over with quick and then could continue with the important talks of immortality, haunting memories of lost loves, and how to save the earth.
I bought all four Highlander features just now and watched them in two days, home alone, as morality tales about immortality should be watched. And for me, "There can be only two." The original and Highlander 2 "The Renegade version". I watched #2 twice, just to be sure, and enjoyed it twice.
Soon those who remember the original cut of this film will have their say, new viewers will watch it with unpolluted minds and enjoy this film on it's own merits. A large scale, quickly paced, fun and funny action tale of the future, with a theme that needs to be heeded more than ever.
Summary of Highlander 2 - Renegade Version (The Director's Cut)
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