I found this old review from when I used to work at a newspaper. Dated 9/7/2000
There Can Be Only One
Unless it's a movie, and then there can be as many as you can imagine.
The fourth Highlander movie, "Highlander: Endgame," represents the changing of the guard for this series. It combines the original movie character, Connor MacLeod (Christopher Lambert) with the television show character Duncan MacLeod (Adrian Paul).
For those who know nothing about Highlander (shame on you all) here's a bit of back fill. Some people living among us humans are immortal. Once they are killed in their regular lives, they revive and begin their lives as immortals, never aging and never dying. The only way an immortal can be killed is if someone cuts off his or her head. If one immortal kills another, then he/she gets the dead immortal's power in a surge of lightening called the Quickening, which usually destroys large buildings and blows up nearby cars or trees.
So the immortals are all fighting each other in this big game, usually good verses evil, to be the last one left alive. Hence, there can be only one.
There's also a big set of rules that goes along with being an immortal, like you can't fight on holy ground, only one immortal can challenge another immortal and so on.
In this film, one of the evil immortals, Kell (Bruce Payne), gets a group together and they jointly attack other immortals. (Evil guys are always breaking the rules.) And he has a personal grudge against Connor from like 600 years ago and since that time, he has been tracking Connor and making his life a living hell by killing off all the people he loves. Thus, Duncan becomes a target.
For those who are confused, Connor and Duncan are from the same clan, so they're both Highlanders, but Connor's several hundred years older. He found Duncan when Duncan first became an immortal and trained him and taught him all the rules.
Watching this movie was like watching a really long episode of the show, which is cool if you like the show. If you don't, you probably won't like the movie.
I, however, enjoyed it immensely. Except for the excess flashbacks. I know the director was just trying to tell the story in an interesting way, but I would have liked fewer flashbacks.
There was one weak spot in the plot, but not too bad. Otherwise, I give it two thumbs up for being a really long episode. Think "The X-Files" movie.
Spoiler Alert: It's a little bit sad. Something had to be done to keep the movies going, and since Lambert is starting to show his age, it's hard to believe that he's immortal. I don't want to spoil it, but think "Star Trek Generations" where they bring the new crew in to join the old crew.
You can't have two captains.
I can't believe that they let me do this. And paid me. I think I got better at writing reviews as time went on. I'll have to wait until I come across some more.