Review of Highlander II: The Quickening (1991) by Gordon S — 23 Nov 2007

What happened? Not as good as the first, but watchable.

This review of Highlander II: The Quickening (1991) was written by Gordon S on 23 Nov 2007.

Highlander II: The Quickening has generally received negative reviews.

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By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 12 Mar 2020

Highlander 2: The Quickening is the most hilariously incomprehensible movie I've seen in many a long day - a movie almost awesome in its badness…

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Audiences unfamiliar with the first film will be hard put to follow the action [from a story by Brian Clemens] as it incoherently hops about…

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It gets 100% of a rating above b-panther the quickening.. At least in that regard its BETTER because anythings better than whutkandans…

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