It’s entirely possible that you have seen it–and your poor tortured mind, desperate to protect itself from the misbegotten abomination that was Highlander 5, moved the memory off to a small dark room in the far back of your brain, bricked it off, added a four-inch-thick steel wall, and then dropped the whole thing into a tank full of man-eating sharks.
Trust me, you do not want to tamper with these protections. You’re better off just not remembering.
And this is coming from somebody who really liked Methos and was looking forward to seeing him featured in one of the movies.
That said – looking up his Wiki page – he was born in NY (his father was a French diplomat), but the family moved to Switzerland when he was only 2. And he lived there until moving to France at 16. So, the not speaking English seems possible. (Although it does also mention him doing a 6 month stint at the London Stock Exchange as a young man so… dunno… ).
I had to resurrect this thread as I saw Highlander for the very first time last night, being that it was a gaping hole in my wall of geek cred.
Sometimes I go into a cheesy movie with the expectation that it’ll be cheesy, so right from the start I’m ready to mock it. I went into Highlander expecting to enjoy it, and I could not stop playing “Spot The Goof.” Lambert was dead-eyed and wooden for the first 30 minutes, the dialogue was stilted and flowed unnaturally, the backflipping old man – dear god, the backflips – and the freaking disassembled sword in the suitcase. There was just so much silliness.
That all said…the moment Connery showed up and injected some life into the movie, I really started to enjoy it. The pace picked up and the actors seemed to finally realize they should be acting. Clancy Brown clearly had a ton of fun with his role. It was still cheesy in a lot of ways, clearly unpolished, and very, very 80s, but it’s undeniably as much a fun movie as Star Wars was. And the accents cracked me up.
