There Can Be Only One!

   

       I had an urge today to watch Highlander from 1986.  The decade of the greatest films ever made.  Okay so maybe not but I do love me some 80's movies.  They just don't make them like this anymore.  You know, making movies for the sake of making interesting stories to watch.  Not like today, where they only make movies to see how much money it can make.  Which I understand that making films happens to be there job just like my job is make money also, just not at quite the same scale.  But before the 2000s movies really were different.  Much more memorable characters back then as well.  Who that has seen Highlander has ever forgotten the phrases "There can be only one!" and "Connor Macleod, of the clan Macleod"?
     I love this film so I may be a bit biased when it comes to any type of review.  But i will try.  The acting is well....80's acting.  Christopher Lambert has never been known for his acting chops and would probably never be ever nominated for an academy award but he does a pretty good job in this film because he actually gets to use his real accent through alot of it.  The bad guy though, Kruger, played by Clancy Brown is one of his best roles ever.  He is one evil sonofabitch.  He plays it so well it was hard for me to ever see him in anything else, like when he was Zim in Starship Troopers and the dad in Pet Sematary 2.  I think he is really at his best when playing a protagonist.  Sean Connery plays Ramirez, and he does what he usually does.  He has never been able to do any other accent but his real one but it is quite forgivable because this film is so badass.
     Special effects are, for the most part, only lightning and some blood so really not much to talk about there.  One of the real draws from this movie was the soundtrack.  Written and performed in it's entirety by the legends of rock, Queen.  Fantastic soundtrack to say the least.
     I would recommend this to anyone that likes 80's films and all that like a good detective story that spans generations.  The sequels are just okay but this one that started the whole thing is spectacular.