Highlander II: The Quickening

In the year 2025, the ozone layer has been destroyed. Connor MacLeod and Juan Ramirez fly in to help save the world. They fight with the planet Ziest and a money grabbing company wanting to make a fortune from the lack of ozone.

A completely confused sequel to the imaginative but in no way perfect original, with aliens from the Planet Zanussi hunting Christopher Lambert in a dark future purgatory of post-ozone poverty. Kim Newman said in her review, “Sean Connery dragged back from death for a bare-faced cameo, Michael Ironside sneering as a dictator of the universe who can only summon two evil followers, and Virginia Madsen wondering what the heck she’s got into.”

Newman continued, “With a plot that swallows itself, a series of story premises that will have you scratching your head, and some very tired visual fireworks from director Russell Mulcahy, who seems to have graduated from promising to has-been without passing through success.”

To put it clearly for “Highlander II: The Quickening,” released in 1991, there is no plot, no real story, and no point really to be made. What was the point in making a sequel? Was there any need to make a film that didn’t need a sequel, didn’t ask for one and didn’t leave the audiences wondering what would happen after the end of the first movie? Just do yourself a favor and don’t watch this because it’s one of the worse sequels ever made. If you liked the first one, you’ll be watching this questioning what they were thinking when they made this.

Believe it or not, they made a third movie. How is that one compared to this mess of a sequel? Stay tuned next week in “Highlander Month” to find out.