movie
1991 · United Kingdom, United States
Highlander II: The Quickening
Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 100 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States
- Violence
- Strong
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
The story
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.
- new york city
- martial arts
- immortality
- scotland
- sword fight
- fictional war
- dark fantasy
- warrior
- action hero
- sword and sorcery
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Christopher Lambert
Connor 'The Highlander' MacLeod
Sean Connery
Juan Sanchez Villa-Lobos Ramirez
Virginia Madsen
Louise Marcus
Michael Ironside
Gen. Katana
- John C. McGinley — David Blake
- Phillip Brock — Cabbie
- Rusty Schwimmer — Drunk
- Ed Trucco — Jimmy
- Steven Grives — Hamlet
- Jimmy Murray — Horatio
- Pete Antico — Corda
- Peter Bucossi — Reno
- Peter Bromilow — Joe
- Jeff Altman — Doctor
- Allan Rich — Allan Neyman
- Directed
- Russell Mulcahy
- Written
- William N. Panzer, Peter Bellwood, Brian Clemens
Production
- Rating
- 4.7 / 10 · 980 ratings
- Studio
- Davis-Panzer Productions, Harat Investments, Lamb Bear Entertainment, Interstar, Highlander Productions, J&M Entertainment
The Collection
The complete story, in order.
1986Highlander
Where it starts.
Highlander II: The Quickening
1991 · You’re here
Highlander: The Source
2007
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
