Highlander II: The Quickening (1991)
Directed by Russell Mulcahy
The Prize has been won. Connor MacLeod is mortal... Now an old man on the verge of death, memories of his past on the planet Zeist resurface, where a vengeful enemy, General Katana, plots to destroy him once and for all.
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You see, like most truly great films, it really doesn’t matter what you know about this film beyond its context: That Lana Wachowski once co-directed a trilogy of films about the adventures of Neo (Keanu Reeves) and Trinity (Carrie Ann-Moss), who were a part of a human-centric resistance to the sentient machines that had enslaved humanity — physically in amniotic pods, stacked in giant pillars, and mentally in a virtual world modeled after 1999 — in the far-flung future in order to harvest the electrical energy that their brains supply to power the robots after mankind blacked out the sky Highlander II -style.
Jupiter Ascending’s a baffling movie, because it seems to represent the directors’ desire to splice Highlander 2 with the Star Wars prequels and see what happens.
Suicide Squad is one of those movies that you think might turn the corner and be so bad it's good, but then you try to watch it, and it's just painfully Highlander II bad.
The good news is, The Old Guard is better than Highlander II — but that's true of literally every movie ever.
Liebesman and screenwriters Josh Appelbaum, André Nemec ( Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol ), and Evan Daugherty (uh, Divergent ) make the turtles themselves mostly likable while also hewing somewhat close to the origins, mercifully abandoning the earlier, Highlander II -esque idea of making the turtles aliens, but still retconning things in order to increase the stakes for O'Neil and Sachs.
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It was either going to be Highlander 2: The Quickening, or it was going to be The Empire Strikes Back.