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Leaden, laden with effects, short on imagination.
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What are critics saying?
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Los Angeles Times by Kevin Thomas
It makes clearer much that was so vague in the original; it even jokes about how confusing its premise is. In short, audiences who made the first film successful enough to warrant a second will be getting a bit more for their money.
40
No plot, no real story, no point really.
25
Boston Globe by Matthew Gilbert
The dullest and shoddiest action-adventure flick of the year, with only a few cute Sean Connery moments to rescue it from total, sheer and utter bogosity. [01 Nov 1991, p.29]
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Washington Post by Rita Kempley
With its fancifully moldering sets and technical effects, Highlander 2 is little more than a barbarous arena, a Conanistic return to paganism for those among us who still laugh at violence.
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Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert
Highlander 2: The Quickening is the most hilariously incomprehensible movie I've seen in many a long day - a movie almost awesome in its badness.