Quartile rating: 5/10 · 1 rating
Deceived that he had won the Prize, Connor MacLeod wanders through the world; however, he is awakened from his peaceful life when an entombed immortal magician, Kane, escapes and comes seeking the Highlander.
Highlander III is a near-carbon copy of the original film's structure, retreading the same beats with a new villain and virtually ignoring Highlander II entirely. The plot is formulaic and repetitive, offering nothing the first film didn't already do better. Acting is passable but unremarkable, with Mario Van Peebles' villain Kane being campy rather than menacing. Cinematography is competent but uninspired, lacking the visual grandeur of the original's Scottish Highland sequences. Novelty scores very low as this is perhaps the most derivative of the Highlander sequels — a shameless retread rather than an expansion of the mythology. The ending resolves predictably and without emotional weight.