At the end of "Highlander," Conor MacLeod is rewarded with "the Quickening" for slaying all the other immortals. At the beginning of "Highlander III," it's revealed that -- oops -- HE MISSED ONE! Even more absurd than this major plot discrepancy is the casting of Mario Van Peebles as the Mongol immortal, Kane. In the original "Highlander," having the Kurgan take on a punk style made sense, because punk was in full swing. In contrast, Van Peebles' Kane is duded up in some kind of Afro-cyber-thrash fashion, which doesn't exist and probably never will and so is just plain stupid. He goes on to replicate all of Kane's stunts from "Highlander," practically scene for scene -- kidnapping the girl, driving against traffic on the expressway, doing the Michael Jordan thing with his tongue, etc. The only thing that makes this movie not a total waste of time is an unintentionally funny swordfight in which the combatants are swinging from trapezes in a Japanese cultural center. (If you have to ask . . . )
