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Highlander: The Source (2007)
Dreadful - Too Bad There Aren't Minus Ratings
I loved the first Highlander movie, loved the series, and have found every movie after the first to be pretty awful - but I watch them anyway, hoping against hope that they'll prove me wrong. I thought it couldn't get any worse than Highlander: Endgame, but I was very much mistaken. This is just a terrible movie - like watching a train wreck.
If they didn't destroy continuity in every movie and rewrite the history of the Highlander universe, it might be bearable. Like every other Highlander movie, this one acts like nothing came before it and nothing about it makes sense - it's an insult to the intelligence of the fans. And we have to suffer through yet another half-witted attempt to re-invent the source of immortality and what happens if "there can be only one." The post-apocalyptic world is just plain dark and dreary. Endgame was sort of heading in that direction - it was significantly more world-weary and tattered than the world of the series. However, The Source just plain doesn't make sense. For the world to have gotten in this condition, more than a few years would have to have passed, and Joe Dawson should look more than a couple of years older - by rights the character should have been dead before this movie takes place. But hey, I guess they figure we can't add either.
The fight scenes are terrible - the speeded-up special effects destroy the fun of the fight scenes, and you always expect one decent sword-fighting scene in a Highlander movie - not this one! If I had realized how bad this was going to be, I could have resigned myself to ogling Methos for a couple of hours. This movie is so bad even *that* isn't enjoyable. If I had seen this in a movie theater I'd have wanted my money back. As it is, I want back the time I wasted watching this dreck.
I'm giving up Highlander movies for good. As far as I'm concerned, There Can Be Only One Highlander Movie - and this isn't it.
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II - The Sith Lords (2004)
I LOVED This Game (Spoilers)
I so love the KotoR games, and this one is definitely a winner. There's a long slog on a ship and then an equally long slog through a space station before you get to do some traveling and see other planets, but it's worth it.
There's a real sense of living history playing the KotoR games, since your character gets to revisit familiar yet changed locations.
Things I loved:
--Being able to break down items to reuse materials for other items. --Your choices in dialogue AND actions influence your party members for or against you. --You can talk to droids and aliens in their language and answer them in yours (much truer to the SW movies than the first KotoR). --Occasionally the action shifts to a party member who must complete a series of tasks before you go back to a normal viewpoint (with all three currently selected characters)
LucasArts has obviously paid attention to what didn't work in the first game, as well. I liked the fact that the saved game screen now shows your last saved game first, instead of the other way around, like it was in KotoR I. I noticed KotoR loads noticeably faster (although it sometimes crashes when loading an area - hopefully we Americans will get a patch soon)!
Overall, the game is extremely enjoyable. I hope KotoR III is on the way.