Amazon.com: Highlander (The Immortal Edition): Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery, Clancy Brown, Roxanne Hart, Beatie Edney, Alan North, Jon Polito, Sheila Gish, Hugh Quarshie, Christopher Malcolm, Peter Diamond, Billy Hartman, Russell Mulcahy, E.C. Monell, Eva Monley, Harold Moskovitz, John H. Starke, Gregory Widen, Larry Ferguson, Peter Bellwood: Movies & TV

Actors: Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery, Clancy Brown, Roxanne Hart, Beatie Edney
Directors: Russell Mulcahy
Writers: Gregory Widen, Larry Ferguson, Peter Bellwood
Producers: E.C. Monell, Eva Monley, Harold Moskovitz, John H. Starke
Format: Anamorphic, Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Widescreen, NTSC
Language: English (Dolby Digital 6.1 EX), English (DTS 5.1)
Dubbed: French
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number of discs: 2
Rated:
R
Restricted
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
DVD Release Date: April 16, 2002
Run Time: 116 minutes
Average Customer Review: 1,169 customer reviews
ASIN: B00005RYL9
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #91,368 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #1635 in Movies & TV > DVD > Fantasy
- #2926 in Movies & TV > DVD > Science Fiction
- #9461 in Movies & TV > DVD > Mystery & Thrillers

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The review pertains to the Lionsgate 30th anniversary bluray.

ByKevin Dudleyon October 5, 2016

Format: Blu-rayVerified Purchase

The 1986 cult classic "Highlander" is one of the most fondly remembered films from that glorious decade. While by no means perfect, it features fun performances, a cool story concept, stylish direction, a dose of 80's cheese and a great soundtrack by Queen. It is most definitely a case of the whole being greater than the sum of its parts. Even though it tells a single self cotained story, it wound up spawning some truly awful sequels along with a decent television series as well as an animated film in 2007.

This film has seen many DVD and bluray releases over the years. The previous Studio Canal bluray release in the UK was a fully loaded special edition that featured copius extras but had picture quality which suffered from noticeable digital noise that robbed it of much of its potential detail. The previous Lionsgate release in the states utilized the same transfer but left off the extensive feature length making of documentary featured on the Studio Canal release.

It was announced earlier this year that Studio Canal was performing a 4K restoration of the film for a new bluray release which featured an expanded version of the prior making of documentary (from originally about 90 to now 120 minutes), new interviews with the director Russel Mulcahy and star Christopher Lambert (about 20 minutes each) in addition to the vintage commentary track from the director and prior featurettes. Lionsgate would bring this new 30th anniversary bluray out here in the states.

The new transfer from the 4K restoration is truly breathtaking for fans of the film. All of the digital noise that plagued the previous bluray transfer is gone. Detail has been greatly improved along with contrast and black levels, skin tones look much more natural and it is like seeing the film again for the first time. No digital noise reduction appears to have been used so the natural film grain levels are retained for a nice filmic touch. The bit rate is healthy getting into the mid 30's during busy moments. I doubt the film ever looked this great before even in theaters! Audio is well defined and punchy. Feel free to upgrade to this new edition as this is truly the definitive edition of the director's cut of "Highlander". There can be only one.

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Not a bad collection item

Bymichael winburnon June 22, 2015

Format: DVDVerified Purchase

this review is the quaity of the disc.
On a scale for 1-4 for DVD - video quality was a solid 3. (Definitely wasn't Superbit Quality). Extremely grainy...but i have to think they took the 70mm print and zoomed it to 1.85 because it has that "blown up" look about it. (Those of you who would be concerned about this will know what i mean).
The original "scope" was 1.85:1. This was presented as such. There was a 70mm print, too.. but that's not included here sadly. (The Blu-ray didn't have it either.)
It was Enhanced Widescreen 16.9
Original Audio was simply Dolby Surround, but there was a special 6 track for the 70mm print created. This disc includes the DTS-ES Discrete 6.1 coding! - Along with DD-EX (it was 'gimmicky' by today's standard, but awesome to have been included... the .1 effects track (bass) was WAAAYYY overboosted, but it was cool throwback to the early days of DVD audio encoding :) [the blu-ray only hosted DTS_HD 5.1 - too bad.)

nice to have it.

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Immortal

ByT. J. Wendton October 27, 2016

Format: Amazon VideoVerified Purchase

Good movie.
Among humans for centuries, an immortal specie existed. Connor MacLeod is a member of this specie. Unaware of his powers, he is unable to explain his revival after his apparent death in a clan-fight in the 15th century. This convinces the superstitious villagers to stone him and drive him out of the village. He then encounters another one of his kind, Ramirez, who indoctrinates him in the ways of the immortals. The only way these "immortals" can die is by having their heads cut off. Given the credo that there can only be one, you can imagine a race where everyone tries to chop everyone else's head off. Of course, in such a race, there'll be factions, and MacLeod and Ramirez are one side battling the forces of evil immortals who want to take over the planet and wreak destruction on it.
Rated: 4.4

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"It's a kind of magic!"

ByMarkAldoon November 7, 2016

Let's count the number of times I have purchased this: VHS, Laser Disc, Special Ed. Laser, DVD, Special Ed. DVD, Anniversary DVD. Blu, and now the 30th Blu! Do you need me to tell you this is a fave? I still have the original black and white movie poster hanging up! There can be only one, but you can watch it over and over!

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A Classic Film featuring Immortals and Sword Fights

ByScott D. Welchon June 16, 2016

Hard to believe it has been 30 years since the original came out. It was one of those films that took your breath away with the fight scenes and unknown immortals among us, as well as outstanding acting and majestic scenery. Christopher Lambert and Sean Connery were perfectly cast in this as Highlander Connor MacLeod and his mentor Juan Sanchez Villalobos Ramirez, respectively. Although the plot is not overly complicated, the path MacLeod must take to, basically, save humanity is a fun - yet bloody - ride. The soundtrack music by Queen is a plus. This BluRay Director's Cut is nice to have in my library if for no other reason than to get nostalgic and plop it in my player. had I rated it in 1986 it may have been a 5 but in today's universe with all that has come out since I give it a 4, which IMO is still strong.

Great Movie (you already know that). Horrible Audio Transfer

ByStroppyon February 25, 2015

The movie, 5 stars. No question about it. The directors cut makes it even more so. The transfer to DVD, 2 or 3 stars: the color is bright -- it's like those B&W movies Turner colorized back in the '90's. But as I haven't seen an actual print of this on the big screen since it came out I'll give that a pass. But the audio transfer is horrendous! I had to constantly adjust the volume -- from my normal listening level during action scenes to two and even three times what I ever listen to my TV at for dialogue (my TV volume is usually set at 10, I was going between 10 and 30 trying to not disturb my neighbors but still hear the dialogue). I'm being gracious in giving the DVD a four-star rating, but that's because it's such an awesome -- if cheesy -- movie.

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