Film Illiterate, wherein the proprietor records movies seen, and sporadic progress through assorted lists of the "best". Originally started after regretfully renting something forgettable for the third time. I've forgotten what, but never again! A tedious endeavour since 2005. Hello. 🙂
Connor "Highlander" MacLeod is one of those legendary figures from my childhood, like Casey Ryback and John McClane. More than anything, he was my first exposure to the concept of immortality as a solid idea, not a religious abstraction. That's the sort of thing that sticks with you.
It's absurd, of course: immortals roam the Earth, chopping each others' heads off ("there can be only one"). MacLeod (Christopher Lambert) is exiled when his family sees demonic possession in his miraculous recovery; he's trained by another immortal, Ramirez (Sean Connery). They're both hunted down by The Kurgan (Clancy Brown), a rather more evil example of the breed.
The fact that the film stars a Frenchman playing a Scotsman and a Scotsman playing an Egyptian with a Spanish name tells you most of what you need to know about where acting falls on the director's list of priorities. It's a little harder to figure out which items fall further up that list -- there are some impressive special effects, but the only other notable achievement is the Queen soundtrack.
Like most other objects of childhood nostalgia, it turns out that The Highlander isn't actually very good. Fun, in its own 80s-blockbuster way, but not good.