The Entropy Pump

directed by Brett Leonard

H:tS leaves the same kind of bad taste behind, that every piece of really bad fan fiction does. It has all the typical elements of any Highlander movie (save for Lambert, who mercifully got killed off in the last part): sword fights, rolling heads, dying immortals, and yet everything feels slightly off. It’s about some mystical source, for which the immortals quest. Some guardian of said source has also awakened and is out to kill the remaining immortals.

Where to start? The look seems inspired by the hyper-stylized look that became all so common in the wake of the Matrix, but done with a TV movie budget. The plot has holes the size of the grand canyon and is riddled with rampant stupidity, the new characters cannot act and look ridiculous, especially the immortal priest and the evil guardian (who looks like a cheap man’s Marilyn Manson). The locations were everything takes place are puzzling at best, everything feels artificial and slightly unreal, bereft of humans, as if they had not enough money for extras. I really felt sorry for some of the guys from the TV series. I’ve seen them act, at least good enough to entertain and make their roles believable. Here, most of them just felt misplaced, out of sync with their original performances. Only Adrian Paul has some good moments, but they are lost admit the awful rest.

As movie two to four have already shown, there can be only one (cliched, but true). Part five is no exception, beating a dead horse even more. Hopefully this is the end of the road for the franchise.

Rating: 1/5