Highlander: The Source
|
List Price: Our Price: $5.60 You Save: $9.38 (63%) Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Buy Used: from $1.59 (click here) Category: DVD See more DVD releases |
|---|
Buy this DVD movie at online store in your country
Canada
Canada
Movie Reviews of Highlander: The Source
Movie Review: on the fence
Summary: 1 Stars
I've got to be honest with you, i'm still on the fence as to whether this movie sucked or was actually decent. I know one thing for sure though, there are many episodes from the series that were better than this film. BUT with that being said, I get what the producers were trying to do by taking the HIGHLANDER mythology into a different direction. I mean with all the stories that take place in the highlander mythos, it seems to me that with the exception of HIGHLANDER VENGEANCE, the highlander stories that take place in the future do not really do so well...Example? Highlander 2! Highlander The Source, even the idea for shooting the sixth season taking place in the future was scrapped. Although it looks good on paper, people don't seem to be interested on the life of an immortal living in the future. We only care about their lives in the present or their place during history. Anyway, I'm probably not gonna buy this dvd, cause I'm sure theres going to be a new cut coming out within the year or near FUTURE. The story was mildly interesting, but if they continue with the two sequels after this, I might appreciate this film more. But they need to hire some better writers...I mean, honestly im sure any real FAN could have done a better job. The action was blah compared to ENDGAME. There was too much with too little significance going on. and... yea let's not talk about the ending cause i dont want to spoil it for anyone. I did enjoy seeing Methos and Duncan on screen again. People talk about how there shouldnt be any more cause it gets worse everytime. But! I feel that we have to have another one...a REAL GOOD ONE to make up for the last....4 movies and Highlander the Raven....and dare i say it? the Animated series as well hahaha. "Live, Grow Stronger, Fight Another day" this is the highlander way! So PRODUCERS IF YOU READ THIS...PLEASE do something right for once!!!Movie Review: Who is their audience? Not women!
Summary: 1 Stars
I am a huge fan of the series. I'm female and I own all the seasons. So I don't know if I'm in a minority or not, but I know that when they were showing the series on Spike TV, which I understood was a 'man channel', they would run tampon ads. So that told me they knew who was watching! So this movie seemed to try to add some interest for female viewers, with Duncan having a wife, but it just felt like a dark, dismal story, with nothing entertaining about it. I loved the flashback scenes which gave it some life, but they were so short one couldn't connect with the characters. It was more about killing and cannibalism, slicing and dicing, which overshadow the message of Duncan's goodness. I waited and waited for this to come out and saw absolutely no advertising, then happened to catch the last 15 minutes on Sci Fi and knew it didn't look promising....so it took me this long to rent it. I don't think I'll want to watch it again, and don't recommend buying it. If I want to be depressed I'll watch the news. I love action movies but they often have so much gore that I would rather watch them on TV. Normally I'd like a good movie to last longer than I expect it to and be surprised by some of the plot twists, but it was good this was over quickly. It failed to distinguish itself as a Highlander story I would want to 'escape' into. That's what it's all about. I can close my eyes at ocasional gore, but the testosterone has to keep me intereted. The fight scene at the end was done in super fast motion and so it wasn't a SATISFYING Duncan McCloud 'moment.' I felt like I was watching a fast forward blurb. It made no sense that the guardian was so visious, killing everyone....in order to prove what? I would recommend the Unrated Pathfinder over this, even though it's a bit gory also. It's EXCITING and more sensual!Movie Review: Worst Film Ever?
Summary: 1 Stars
This has got to be one of the worst films ever made. It pains me to say it because I am a huge Highlander fan. The original film was a classic, and the second film we don't really acknowledge. The third film was decent, and the fourth was just okay. But this one...I'm embarassed that 'Highlander' is in the title.
Adrian Paul reprises his role of the Highlander Duncan MacLeod, who gave five (okay four good ones) seasons of stories to the character on "Highlander: The Series." What makes this movie so bad is the story, the effects, the acting, the visuals, pretty much just about everything. First of all, Highlander is about the sword. Half way through the movie Duncan tosses his sword aside and starts using two big knives to fight with instead. There was no point to this and it really made character cheap. When Joe Dawson is killed (a beloved character from the series), nobody really seems to care. There's no introduction to Joe, so if you haven't seen the series, you have no idea who this guy is and why it's important that he was killed.
The story takes place in this strange post apocalyptic future where a band of international immortals try to discover why they are immortal. When you can look up into the sky and actually see the solar system aligning, you know there's issues with the story. It seemed like the only point to this story was to find a loophole to allow Duncan MacLeod to have children. That's the only point to the entire story.
I could go on for days about how bad this film is, but why bother. Don't buy it, don't rent it, just get your fill of Highlander from all the other films (just watch #1 and #4) and hours of television and don't waste your time on this one. Adrian Paul should be ashamed of himself.
Movie Review: Beyond bad
Summary: 1 Stars
If you thought the original cut of Highlander II was bad, just wait until you see Highlander: The Source, the fifth (and hopefully final) installment in the beloved series. The Source begins sometime in the distant future (*yawn*) as Duncan MacLeod (Adrian Paul), Methos (Peter Wingfield), Duncan's ex-wife Anna (Thekla Reuten), Joe Dawson (Jim Byrnes), and a small band of immortals seek out "the source", which is said to be the origin place of the immortals. Standing in their way is the demonic Guardian (Cristian Solimeno), who is supposedly an all-powerful immortal that picks off our heroes one by one, leading to the inevitable showdown between him and Duncan. What ends up being the most infuriating about The Source for Highlander fans is how much the film ends up going against the mythology of the series, as well as Duncan and other character's motivations for seeking out "the source". The Jabba the Hutt lookalike in the film doesn't exactly help things out either, and the film as a whole is just one big jumbled mess, thanks to the lackluster, sloppily edited direction from Brett Leonard (Lawnmower Man, Man-Thing), and a cover-themed edition of the original Highlander soundtrack to boot (the version of "Who Wants to Live Forever?" is more annoying than anything else) just all amount to the worst sequel the series has ever seen. Adrian Paul seems to sleep through the film, and the ending is, well, see it for yourself if you're a Highlander fan, and decide which part of the film is the worst. All in all, Highlander: The Source is beyond bad, and no matter how much of a Highlander fan you may be, this should be avoided. If you are a fan though, you'll more than likely want to check this out anyway, but don't say I you hadn't been warned.Movie Review: Can a movie actually kill an entire franchise?
Summary: 1 Stars
The answer is YES and Highlander: The Source proves it. In what can only be considered a need for money, Adrian Paul reprises the role of Duncan Macloud in what must have been written by people who never saw any of the tv series or movies...or maybe they did and they wanted to truly kill it.
To be blunt, this movie is so bad, it should only be viewed by anyone who is addicted to the Highlander series and wants to find a way to break that addiction. This movie is like a drug user having such a bad delusion, that he'll never touch the stuff again.
SPOILER: In this movie, Duncan becomes the last immortal when he kills the worst bad guy in the history of movies and Methos (who up until this movie was the oldest immortal ever, until here where we find a bunch older than him) sacrifices his own life, a move that anyone who has ever seen him even in ONE episode of Highlander will realize that this is completely out of character for him.
But that's not the worst part of this movie.
Duncan becomes the final immortal and we find out what the prize is...it's not ultimate power to run the world as we all thought, oh no no no...Duncan can now have babies.
Keep that in mind and see if you can ever watch another Highlander video again. The Four Horsemen, Connor, Kurrigan, Xavier St Cloud, ALL of it, all of the battles, every episode...it was all about who can get fertile sperm. Go ahead and try to watch those classic episodes knowing that THIS was the goal all along.
So if you enjoy Highlander and want to keep enjoying it, then avoid this one like the plague. Adrian Paul sure should have.