In New York, the owner of a sophisticated antique shop Russell Edwin Nash (Christopher Lambert) 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 deadly 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 (Sean Connery) that 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 price with the power of the other immortals.
Russell is released by the police, but the snoopy forensic agent Brenda J. Wyatt (Roxanne Hart) is attracted by the case since she founds fragments of an ancient Katana and follows Russell. But the also immortal Kurgan (Clancy Brown) is hunting down MacLeod and Brenda is in the middle of their battle.
"Highlander" is a cult-movie with an excellent soundtrack with songs of "Queen". The full of action story is still great after all these years and the DVD has THX audio. Unfortunately commercial sequels have been released and the producers have forgotten that "there can be only one". My vote is seven.
Title (Brazil): "Highlander - O Guerreiro Imortal" ("Highlander - The Immortal Warrior")
Note: On 23 October 2021, I saw this film again.
Russell is released by the police, but the snoopy forensic agent Brenda J. Wyatt (Roxanne Hart) is attracted by the case since she founds fragments of an ancient Katana and follows Russell. But the also immortal Kurgan (Clancy Brown) is hunting down MacLeod and Brenda is in the middle of their battle.
"Highlander" is a cult-movie with an excellent soundtrack with songs of "Queen". The full of action story is still great after all these years and the DVD has THX audio. Unfortunately commercial sequels have been released and the producers have forgotten that "there can be only one". My vote is seven.
Title (Brazil): "Highlander - O Guerreiro Imortal" ("Highlander - The Immortal Warrior")
Note: On 23 October 2021, I saw this film again.