The SciFi Channel must know how bad this movie is. Although IMDB gives the film a minute running time, I swear that the network placed three or more minutes of commercials at every break, shortening the actual air time of the movie down to about 90 minutes.
Given that the movie starts with a moody monologue about the split between Duncan and his wife, this is all just far too neat. While I have to give the movie points for a denouement about something other than taking the head of an immortal, the lack of subtlety and a real back story leaves the ending feeling empty. Every one of them is an affront to the purity of the original movie. Comment by Great White Snark — September 21, am.
I would like to second Great White Snark the first one is good not great any thing that followd was pure crap even though I am a sucker for good sword fighting was there any in the TV show I never watched it. Comment by swestcott — September 21, am. God, I wanted to shoot myself in the head. This film was so bad yet I was laughing at how ridiculous it was. And I agree with the Flock of Seagulls dude. Comment by Fred [The Wolf] — September 21, pm. Comment by Santadelic — September 22, pm.
I enjoyed the first movie and absolutely loved the series. I really wanted it to be good. The show worked because of how they told the stories and that the villains were not generic one note characters. Sad that the movies done by the same people cannot continue that tradition. Comment by Bobby Nash — September 23, am. I actually thought Endgame did a good job of setting up a further storyline. But unfortunately, the writers displayed their typical disregard for continuity and scrapped everything they built with Endgame, and the rest of the series for that matter.
He rides off on a horse to distract the cannibals, allowing Duncan to chase after Anna. Giovanni, who had run off when Duncan came to his rescue, is decapitated by the Guardian. Duncan finds Anna in a clearing by a sandy pit illuminated by starlight. The cosmic convergence is happening directly over them. The Guardian appears and challenges Duncan. Macleod finds that he now has the same speed and power as the Guardian, and manages to get past the foe to reach Anna. However, an energy barrier appears to bar his way.
After continued fighting, the Guardian ends up buried chest deep in the dirt. Bound and defeated, the Guardian demands that Macleod behead him.
Duncan refuses, and the Guardian vanishes in a blast of light. Before he goes, the Guardian screams that he is "cursed forever". Duncan enters the Source, qualified to do so by his pure heart. In the Source, Anna reveals that she is pregnant with their child.
Duncan declares that "he is the one", meaning the child. Once the Guardian vanishes, in the Russian cut Duncan takes off into the sky following Anna, before we see the two in the Source, and Anna announcing that she is pregnant, after which the movie ends. In the US cut, after the Guardian is vanquished there is a montage and another narration from Anna, who explains that the rationale for the Immortals' Game was in fact a misconception all along, and that "there can be only one" really means that only the most pure-hearted of all Immortals could claim the Source.
By comparison, the Russian cut has Duncan and Methos who, of course, survived in the end expressing their doubts about the Game, but never explicitly invalidates it in the same way the US cut does.
As early as , producers of the previous film in the franchise, Highlander: Endgame , were discussing plans for a fifth film with fans at conventions.
Mulcahy disagreed with Peter S. Davis and William N. Panzer on the direction of the story, as he wanted it to be a prequel focusing around the first-ever generation of immortals, thousands of years before the original Highlander , with Adrian Paul only appearing as Duncan MacLeod in a framing story.
On the other hand, Panzer and Davis wanted to follow up Highlander: Endgame and have Duncan appear throughout the whole film. Eventually, Mulcahy left the production, feeling that a repeat of the events that resulted in the critical and commercial failure of Highlander II: The Quickening was about to happen.
Highlander: The Source began at Dimension Films under a number of different screenwriters, including Joel Soisson and Peter Briggs, with production scheduled to begin in Lithuania in late Joel Soisson's version of the script featured Duncan MacLeod living in a gas station in the middle of the desert, next to a run-down airplane.
Also in the script, MacLeod smoked, wore cowboy boots and a hat, and had a pet monkey named Connor. Peter Briggs wrote a version of the script while the project was still at Miramax. Before writing the script, Briggs re-watched all the "Highlander" movies as well as the TV series, then joined the official Highlander message boards www. He kept his identity secret, but was known to be an insider on the project.
He soon became one of the most popular and respected members of the board, and remained so even after he was kicked off the project. I'll watch any racing on TV until the new season comes along, and that's how I got hooked on the TV series. Basically, If you were a fan of the TV show, I think you will like the movie.
The official movie web site: Highlander-The Source. By Bruce Simmons Published Sep 23, Share Share Tweet Email 0.
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