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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780782010817
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, THX, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0782010814
Label: Republic Pictures
Manufacturer: Republic Pictures
Number Of Items: 2
Picture Format: Letterbox
Publisher: Republic Pictures
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 26, 1999
Running Time: 225 minutes
Sales Rank: 112872
Studio: Republic Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: March 07, 1986
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Shocking image quality
This review is about "Highlander - 10th anniversary director's cut" only - I haven't seen "The Quickening" yet. You will not find a worse image quality on DVD even if you tried! First, it is appalling to sell a letterbox transfer as "state of the art", as it says on the box. Only an anamorphic transfer deserves to be called that.... The picture is so bad, I truely have seen better looking VHS-tapes. ...The noise in some scenes is so bad, it looks like snowflakes - this cannot be attributed solely ... Read More
Rating: - Just Horrid
I was a big fan of the Highlander TV series and finally got around to seeing the movie. Let's start with the movie itself:
The Movie:
The Highlander TV series often not only explored the wisdom that came with 400 years of life but also the heart break of seeing both mortal and immortal loved ones die. This story explored neither. The acting was only so, so -- except for Sean Connery who was excellent.
The DVD:
The 30 seconds of video showing the script ... Read More
Rating: - What a joke
These discs look like re-packaged VCDs... the video quality is apalling. There's compression artifacts, color bleeding, ugly doses of aliasing.... you name it. It's like watching one of those dodgy pirate copies from the far east, where someone's gone into the cinema with a camcorder.
The sound aint nothing special, either - the 5.1 remix of Highlander, in particular, is very poor... it sounds like it was mixed by a deaf person working from their bedroom. I'm not kidding.
How'd ... Read More
Rating:  - Shame about the video quality
This is part two of my review. I saw Highlander. Took me a long time to finish viewing it, because it just didn't grab me. Can't really understand its appeal. It has some nice scenery shots, some okay fight scenes, but is doesn't have a real plot, and flashbacks get in the way of what plot there is. IMO Highlander 2 is the better movie, although it suffers from the forced attempt to link it to the first movie.
Video quality is not very good. Colouring artifacts appear in some places, and it ... Read More
Rating: - This is not The Quickening
I have yet to watch the Highlander part of the pack. I started with Highlander II, and was pretty amazed. I won't claim that it's the best ever film - the acting isn't that great, and the fight scenes could be more exciting. But it still makes more sense than The Quickening.
Not only are there quite a few new scenes, but there are also many changes in the editing, including rearrangement of scenes. All in all, there are tens of changes (42 counted in the accompanying booklet), which make ... Read More
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