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Highlander: The Source, a review by Tom

Title: Highlander: The Source
Year: 2007
Director: Brett Leonard
Rating: R
Length: 86 Min.
Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 2.35
Audio: English: Dolby Digital 5.1 , English: Dolby Digital Surround
Subtitles: English, Spanish

Stars:
Adrian Paul
Thekla Reuten
Cristian Solimeno
Peter Wingfield
Jim Byrnes

Plot:
Immortals, they have secretly dwelt among us for thousands of years but their origins have been shrouded in mystery. The answers, Prophets say, are to be found in The Source. The last band of eternal warriors, lead by Duncan MacLeod, the Highlander, have set out on a treacherous quest to find the origin of their immortality. But to learn the truth, they must first defeat The Guardian of the Source, a powerful killer who will destroy all who seek its secrets.

Extras:
Closed Captioned
Documentary
Featurettes
Scene Access
Storyboard Comparisons
Trailers
Video Game Sneak Peak

"How bad can it be?", I thought. After only reading bad reviews about this movie, I expected the worst. This movie is bad, but not as bad as I had expected. But nevertheless I cannot recommend it one bit.
The Highlander franchise doesn't have a good track record when it comes to movies. After one good movie, other movies followed which seemed to have forgotten what Highlander is about.
The TV series, although not necessarily of top-notch quality, did get it, what Highlander is about and what fans wanted to see. Now this movie has again forgotten it.
No real flashbacks to the past about MacLeod, badly choreographed sword fights. And a story which is worse than any episode of the TV series.

And another story point which really bothered me:
Duncan has married a mortal woman, who knew about him and also that he couldn't get children. But then she left him, because she wanted to have children. In what day and age are we? Never heard of adoption or artificial insemination? Couldn't really have been love then.

And a movie which has to end on a recap of the entire movie because of fear you wouldn't understand the ending otherwise. Always a bad sign.

Rating:

(From Tom's Random Reviews on September 21st, 2008)

Blind Fury, a review by DJ Doena

January, 10th


Director: Phillip Noyce

Rutger Hauer    ...    Nick Parker
Terry O'Quinn   ...    Frank Devereaux
Brandon Call   ...    Billy Devereaux
Noble Willingham   ...    MacCready
Lisa Blount   ...    Annie Winchester
Meg Foster   ...    Lynn Devereaux

Synopsis: Nick Parker was blinded during the Vietnam War but he's come to live with it. The locals have taught him to compensate it and even how to use a sword. After many years he tries to contact an old army friend of his but Frank is in deep trouble. He owes people money and they force him to create designer drugs. When he doesn't want to cooperate they kill his wife and try to take his son. But they didn't anticipate that blind man showing up.

My Opinion: I always liked this movie. The acting isn't exactly the best but I like the relationship between Nick and Billy; their bantering in the beginning and their friendship in the end. I also like all the fights because it looks different from what a seeing man would do.

(From DJ Doena's movie watchings 2010 on January 24th, 2010)

The X-Files Marathon, a review by addicted2dvd

8. Ice
Original Air Date: November 5, 1993
Mulder, Scully and team of doctors and scientists go to Alaska and investigate a parasitic wormlike creature which alters behaviour and eventually leads to death.

Guest Stars:
Xander Berkeley as Dr. Hodge
Felicity Huffman as Dr. DaSilva
Steve Hytner as Dr. Danny Murphy
Jeff Kober as Bear
Ken Kirzinger as Richter
Sonny Surowiec as Campbell

My Thoughts:
Look Emma!.... I made it tonight! 

Setting up this episode to review... I never realized till today that Felicity Huffman (Sports Night/Desperate Housewives) was in this episode. Somehow I didn't recognize her in the episode itself. It really is an excellent episode. Interesting story... like the whole no place to go escape to thing. I had to laugh when they decided they had to check their bodies for signs of infection... in front of each other. And Mulder came out with... "Before anyone passes any judgments... let me remind you... we are in the arctic."  But as I said... this is an excellent episode... probably one of the best of the first season!

My Rating:

(From The X-Files Marathon on March 29th, 2010)