Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Highlander II (Renegade Version)


Russell Mulcahy, 1991


The year is 2026 for some reason. Connor MacLeod (of the clan MacLeod) is now an old man or at least a raspy voiced guy with shitty old man make-up. The world is covered by a neon red dome to stop the UV rays from killing us all now that the ozone layer is gone or something. Oh and somehow the neon red sky has ruined civilization. Oh and Connor isn’t a 16th century Highlander who met Sean Connery, trained, watched Connery get killed, and then spends the next three hundred years beheading his other immortal rivals, he’s some sort of alien immortal from Earth’s distant past who got exiled to the future by Michael Ironside who, now that five hundred years has passed, decides to kill Connor proper like and dispatches a pair of porcupine-haired immortal leather fiends to kill him. In the future. I guess. Then he comes to the future himself. Then Sean Connery somehow comes back from the dead. Then he and Connor decide to blow up the energy shield for some reason. Oh and it turns out Connor built the shield in the first place. And he manages to get Virginia Madsen to have sex with him in an alley five minutes after they meet. Then Sean Connery dies again. Then Connor and Michael Ironside, who’s wearing a goofy longhair fright wig for some reason, fight. And I guess the world gets saved. I’m not really sure.

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