Better than the last film, although just about anything would be. Highlander III ignores the previous film and sets up its own story, with MacLeod now having to confront Kain, an immortal who stole the power of illusion and uses it to frighten small children and steal sunglasses. Probably the best choice for the true sequel, although it's not standing among distinguished competition.

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The low point of the franchise, and I'm not even using the awful Quickening version. Highlander II manages to eject everything good from the first film to make more room for action movie cliches, an idiotic plot, an evil Dr. Cox, and Michael Ironside as Jack Nicholson's Joker only without the subtlety. Enjoy this examination of this indefensible film.

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This begins the examination of a descending franchise. Today's look is at Highlander, the original film that launched it all. A short look since we're not dissecting the stupidity of it, but rather looking at what made this film work (and a little of what it could have done without) to see how the follow-up films crashed and burned so badly.

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Like most sequels, this follow-up to the classic Petersen-directed fantasy tale falls flat. Fantasia is now populated by morons, a fact compounded by the dangerous situations in which they live (natural selection should have weeded these people out long ago). The villains are pathetic, Bastian's an imbecile, and Captain Kangaroo is even more surly than usual. Guest stars John Wesley Shipp, whom you may know from Dawson's Creek, but since I don't watch the WB, he'll always be Barry Allen, the Flash.

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