I believe so, why would he want to remain immortal and watch his children die? The prize was ultimate knowledge but being an immortal he could of learnt lots if he put his mind to it by studying over the years. LOL

Anways its a classic 80's action film with great performances by Sean Connery (12 minutes!) and Clancy Brown as Kurgan, but if you want to watch the worst sequel ever...go watch Highlander 2!

Without giving away spoilers it completely messes up the lore of the original film, the other sequels are terrible too, though the TV series had a certain charm, but it wasn’t about Connor but his cousin!

Chad Stahelski, director of the John Wick movies is planning a remake and a trilogy if the first is successful, I'd love to see the first movie respectful of the orginal, same story but with better effects, with sequels/prequels about Ramirez and Kurgan. The director also wants to include the music of Queen which is fantastic news!

Just one question someone may answer for me. At the end Connor is the last immortal. He says he can marry and have children. Does this mean he has lost his immortality? It was a little confusing.

yes. defeating the last other immortal in the Kurgan won Connor the Prize, granting him humanity/mortality, and the ability to lead humanity into his own vision of the future.

this was retconned for the terrible sequels and mostly pretty good television series.

Thanks guys for responding. I was going to watch the sequel, now I'm not so sure

The bad thing about remakes is that when you have someone as awesomely portrayed as the Kurgan, the second attempt almost always falls flat.

@NotoriousRio said:

I believe so, why would he want to remain immortal and watch his children die? The prize was ultimate knowledge but being an immortal he could of learnt lots if he put his mind to it by studying over the years. LOL

Anways its a classic 80's action film with great performances by Sean Connery (12 minutes!) and Clancy Brown as Kurgan, but if you want to watch the worst sequel ever...go watch Highlander 2!

Without giving away spoilers it completely messes up the lore of the original film, the other sequels are terrible too, though the TV series had a certain charm, but it wasn’t about Connor but his cousin!

Chad Stahelski, director of the John Wick movies is planning a remake and a trilogy if the first is successful, I'd love to see the first movie respectful of the orginal, same story but with better effects, with sequels/prequels about Ramirez and Kurgan. The director also wants to include the music of Queen which is fantastic news!

One of my favorites. Never heard the name Connor before. Gave my son that name. Thanks for your post!

@ausfem said:

Thanks guys for responding. I was going to watch the sequel, now I'm not so sure

Although the sequels cannot compare to the first ("There can be only one") , I did enjoy watching "Highlander II: The Quickening (1991)" and "Highlander III: The Sorcerer (1994)".

"Highlander II" takes place in 2024 and has Christopher Lambert (as Connor MacLeod) and Sean Connery (as Juan Ramirez)reunited in their battle against an old enemy.

"Highlander III" occurs in 1994 and Connor discovers that he has not defeated all the Immortals. There is still one left who had not come to The Gathering in 1985 ("Highlander (1986)").

One of my favorites from the 80s. Loved Clancy Brown as the Kurgan (also Hadley from Shawshank)

The problem with the sequels is that so much in the original film was very loosely defined and really doesn't work on a logical sense. Every time the sequels tried to explain these, it just made it seem silly.

The original film was a great swashbuckling through time story, so long as you don't try to employ logic. Hell, I named my son after Connor Macleod (with a dose of CONNERY by switching the "o" at the end for an "e").

The prize, like a lot of the film is loosely defined, but yes, he ultimately gives up his immortality. It's about the only thing the sequel explains clearly

@Moonglum9 said:

The bad thing about remakes is that when you have someone as awesomely portrayed as the Kurgan, the second attempt almost always falls flat.

I think the problem was that all Highlander villains had to be nutcases from that point on. Clancy Brown didn't want to play the Kurgan like that and apparently the initial idea was someone whose only reason for getting up in the morning was to finish the Game for good, which is quite different and much more interesting.

@ausfem said:

This is the first time I watched Highlander. Great adventure movie about immortals. Christopher Lambert was gorgeous. Sean Connery was great as per usual. Bonus is musical score by Queen.

Just one question someone may answer for me. At the end Connor is the last immortal. He says he can marry and have children. Does this mean he has lost his immortality? It was a little confusing.

As with Flash Gordon I thought initially that Queen did all the music and then discovered that a composer was involved too, Howard Blake. In Highlander it was Michael Kamen and I think in both cases the collaboration worked really well. I saw a bit of Highlander the other day and I was picking up on how similar Kamen's music is after the alley fight between Kurgan and Kastagir to some equally haunting music in The Adventures of Baron Munchausen — a scene involving Death I think.

Don't you just love a SPANISH immortal with a SCOTTISH accent? I enjoyed the first film & the TV series but they did not age well.

Yeah, or a Scots immortal with a French accent.