Just as Mulcahy's fun zero-budget debut Razorback was an Outback take on Jaws, Highlander is a less-poignant spin on The Terminator --a comparison that rings uncomfortably exact when the Kurgan stalks MacLeod's new girlfriend through her apartment to the strains of Michael Kamen's moody bass score.
Russell Mulcahy (The Shadow, the grungy and resourceful Razorback) seems a little lost in the budgetary richness of this 20th Century-Fox production from 1986; it plays like a lot of hyperkinetic three-minute movies stuck together, and you get the feeling that changing the order of the scenes wouldn't make a whole lot of difference to the narrative.