Rotten
Audiences unfamiliar with the first film will be hard put to follow the action [from a story by Brian Clemens] as it incoherently hops about in time and space.
Variety Staff, Variety
Highlander II: The Quickening
It's time for a new kind of magic.
1991 · 1h 40m · R
Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Science Fiction
Directed by
Russell Mulcahy
Overview
In the year 2024, the ozone layer is believed to have been destroyed, and it's up to MacLeod and Ramirez to set things right. Opposition comes from both the planet Zeist (MacLeod and Ramirez's homeworld) and a corporation profiting from the supposed lack of ozone. Also, flashbacks show the story behind MacLeod and Ramirez's exile from Zeist.
Director and cast
- Russell Mulcahy Director
- Christopher Lambert as Connor 'The Highlander' MacLeod
- Sean Connery as Juan Sanchez Villa-Lobos Ramirez
- Virginia Madsen as Louise Marcus
- Michael Ironside as Gen. Katana
- John C. McGinley as David Blake
- Phillip Brock as Cabbie
- Rusty Schwimmer as Drunk
- Ed Trucco as Jimmy
- Steven Grives as Hamlet
- Jimmy Murray as Horatio
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
Rotten
Highlander 2: The Quickening is the most hilariously incomprehensible movie I've seen in many a long day -- a movie almost awesome in its badness.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Rotten
Mulcahy and company don't ask us to suspend disbelief; they ask us to pretend we've all had weed-whacker lobotomies.
Rita Kempley, Washington Post
Rotten
Leaden, laden with effects, short on imagination.
Time Out
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