Metacritic Film

Highlander: Endgame

Starring Christopher Lambert, Adrian Paul, Bruce Payne, and Ian Paul Cassidy

MPAA RATING: R for violence and some strong sexuality

Dimension Films / Miramax Films
Suspense/Thriller
87 minutes | Color
USA
Released In Theaters September 1, 2000

Connor and Duncan Macleod (good immortals) join forces against Kell, an evil immortal, who has become too overpowering for anyone to face alone.

WRITTEN BY
Joel Soisson
Gregory Widen (characters)
Eric Bernt (story)
Gillian Horvath (story)

DIRECTED BY
Douglas Aarniokoski

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

21 / 100

Critic Reviews

63 USA Today Dennis Hunt
Zealots flip over Endgame.
50 Boston Globe Loren King
Offers some entertaining moments now and then in its relatively short running time.
50 Chicago Tribune Vicky Edwards
Has to explain itself through so much of the film that there's just not much film left.
50 TV Guide
This convoluted, time and continent-tripping tale is heavy on the adolescent angst and swoony romanticism.
33 Entertainment Weekly
The endless, numbing sameness of it all.
30 Salon.com
This is a movie full of now-you-see-it, now-you-don't plot points.
30 Los Angeles Times
Looks sensational, moves like lightning. But its script (by Joel Soisson) makes no pretense about being logical or even comprehensible.
30 Austin Chronicle
And next time around... show the courage of your lowbrow convictions and get back to the gonzo, unapologetically senseless mayhem that made this saga so much fun in the beginning.
25 San Francisco Chronicle
Numbing.
20 The New York Times
The action is the best thing in the picture.
20 Film.com
Borderline incoherent.
20 Variety
The sheer raggedness of the plotting -- and the pic's cynical disdain toward audiences -- is staggering.
14 Mr. Showbiz
Thinking (logically or otherwise) about this movie is a waste of your brain cells.
12 New York Post
Shapeless, tedious, hopelessly bad sequel.
10 LA Weekly
While the film is well-paced, visually it is deathly dull.
0 TNT RoughCut
Endgame has become a nincompoop's travelogue, drenched in stage blood, fake beards, and crappy special effects.

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