Highlander began as a cult classic starring Christopher Lambert as immortal Connor MacLeod, blending romance and hard rock sensibility. Two sequels in 1991 and 1994 contradicted each other and the original film, undermining the original finality where Connor was the last immortal. The franchise repeatedly cherry-picked its own canon to justify further sequels. By 2000, Highlander: Endgame attempted a major course correction to reconcile the film continuity with the popular TV series that centered on Duncan MacLeod. Initial reception to Endgame was harsh, but later reassessments view its retcon effort as bold and somewhat vindicated.
The Highlander franchise is the funniest franchise in all of science fiction and fantasy, simply for the fact that it battled its way into a corner in 1986, and then spent a decade and a half trying to cut its way out. The original film, starring Christopher Lambert as immortal swordsman Connor MacLeod, was a unique kind of cult classic, a film that predated the current romantasy craze, but nonetheless delivered a sprawling romance story fused with a kind of hard rock sensibility.
Two sequels followed, in 1991 and in 1994, though each contradicted the other, and both contradicted the first film. At the end of the original adventure, Connor was the last immortal, but because that was no fun, Highlander continued to cherry-pick from its own canon in order to figure out how to keep making sequels. And by the year 2000, the franchise gave us a Hail Mary that, at the time, was considered to be not just bad.
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