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Title: Highlander (1986)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Christopher Lambert | ... | Connor MacLeod | |
| Roxanne Hart | ... | Brenda Wyatt | |
| Clancy Brown | ... | Kurgan | |
| Sean Connery | ... | Ramirez | |
| Beatie Edney | ... | Heather (as Beattie Edney) | |
| Alan North | ... | Lt. Frank Moran | |
| Sheila Gish | ... | Rachel Ellenstein | |
| Jon Polito | ... | Det. Walter Bedsoe | |
| Hugh Quarshie | ... | Sunda Kastagir | |
| Christopher Malcolm | ... | Kirk Matunas | |
| Peter Diamond | ... | Fasil | |
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Billy Hartman | ... | Dugal MacLeod |
| James Cosmo | ... | Angus MacLeod | |
| Celia Imrie | ... | Kate | |
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Alistair Findlay | ... | Chief Murdoch |
In New York, the owner of a sophisticated antique shop Russell Edwin Nash is challenged to a sword fight in the parking lot of the Madison Square Garden by a man called Iman Fasil that is beheaded by Russell. He hides his sword and is arrested by the police while leaving the stadium. Russell recalls his life in the Sixteenth Century in Scotland, when he is Connor MacLeod and is fatally wounded in a battle against another Clan. However he surprisingly survives and his Clan believes he has a pact with the devil and expels him from their lands. Then he meets Juan Sanchez Villa-Lobos Ramirez who explains that he is immortal unless he is beheaded. Further, the immortals dispute a game killing each other and in the end only one survives receiving a prize with the power of the other immortals. Russell is released by the police, but the snoopy forensic agent Brenda J. Wyatt is attracted by the case since she found fragments of an ancient Katana and follows Russell. But the also immortal ... Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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When I first saw this film, I thought it was great. Connery is good, Lambert does passably well, the effects are good, the idea of a bunch of special individuals who had known about each other (and in some cases, liked each other) for centuries being drawn together, knowing that only one could come out alive. The effects were, at the time, good and had not been flogged to death. I even enjoyed the introductory clan-on-clan warfare.
Then came Highlander 2, a film which deserved its place on the Bottom 100 and the nadir of Sean Connery's career. As someone else said about that film: "don't break every rule you set up in the first film." Even the series didn't do that. And the reputation of the first good film suffered.
Separating the first film from the bad sequels, and a series that a lot of people can take or leave, it is still a good film. Unfortunately, a good idea was taken and flogged to death afterward.