Highlander: The Source (2007)

Director:

Brett Leonard

Writers (WGA):

Stephen Kelvin Watkins (screenplay) and
Mark Bradley (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

19 August 2007 (UK)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Sci-Fi

Tagline:

In a world without end, their will is eternal. But a quest for the source of immortality will awaken the Guardian.

Plot:

Duncan MacLeod and his fellow Immortals quest to locate the Grail of their world.

Plot Keywords:

Immortal | Immortality | Watcher | Highlander | Beheading

Cast

Adrian Paul	...	Duncan MacLeod
Thekla Reuten	...	Anna Teshemka
Cristian Solimeno	...	The Guardian
Peter Wingfield	...	Methos
Jim Byrnes	...	Joe Dawson
Stephen Rahman Hughes	...	Zai Jie
Stephen Wight	...	Reggie Weller
Thom Fell	...	Cardinal Giovanni
Patrice Naiambana	...	The Elder
Sakalas Uzdavinys	...	Security Guard
Geoffrey T. Bersey	...	Brother Radu (as Geofrey Bersey)
Rolandas Boravskis	...	Jurgis
Saulis Siparis	...	Man in Tyres
Buckley Norris	...	Captain

Also Known As:

Highlander 5 (USA) (working title)
Untitled Highlander 5 Film (USA) (working title)

MPAA:

Rated R for violence and some language.

Runtime:

86 min | Brazil:99 min (DVD version) | Russia:94 min (DVD version)

Country:

UK | USA | Lithuania

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Certification:

USA:R | Canada:14A | UK:15 | Australia:MA | Portugal:M/12 | Singapore:NC-16 (cut) | Finland:K-15 | New Zealand:R16

Filming Locations:

Kaunas, Lithuania

Company:

Davis-Panzer Productions

Trivia:

Dimension Pictures originally intended to film this movie in Africa. Several early drafts are explicitly set in Africa. It was finally filmed in Lithuania around Vilnius.

Goofs:

Continuity: During the fight on the docks, Methos is slashed across his throat, yet later he shows no scar from the injury when he should have one, just as the Kurgan still had one received from Juan Sanchez Villa-Lobos Ramirez in the first Highlander movie.

Quotes:

Cardinal Giovanni: I thought God wouldn't let this happen to a true Christian.
Methos: You know, Giovanni, I saw Christ teach, I saw Christ heal, you, you self centered son of a bitch, are NO Christian!

Movie Connections:

Follows Highlander (1986)

There can be only one - and this isn't it!

Highlander fans - there simply are very few ways to enjoy this. Aside from totally ignoring the mythology of both the films and the series, the fight scenes were either poorly choreographed, poorly shot, or both. There are no flashbacks in a film that desperately needed some sort of underlying sub-plot and/or simple explanation of the main plot. The dialogue is cheesy, not one of the characters approaches anything like three-dimensionality (other than the recurring trio from the series - and that's only by virtue of fans' past experience with them), and there is no real motivation given for any of them aside from lame "having visions" plot.

Like the last Highlander film that attempted a futuristic setting, this one misses everything that made the first film and the series great. And unlike Highlander 2, the vision of the future here is never really explained and doesn't make a great deal of sense.

They should have stuck with the monkey and the airplane. (See the trivia section.) I can't even really say that if you aren't a Highlander fan it might be enjoyable - because even then it didn't make a lot of sense. I saw it, so I can't un-see it, but if you haven't spare yourself the train wreck.