Audience reviews
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DanTheMan2150AD
The best thing to happen to the franchise since the original, Highlander: The Search for Vengeance is lean, mean and brutally sharp, decapitating all who stand in its way. Weighing heavily on the post-apocalyptic aesthetic of The Quickening, the film weaves a gritty and thoroughly engrossing tale of revenge, shrewdly avoiding the messy continuity and chaotic adventures of Connor MacLeod, bringing everything back to basics with a new hero to root for in the form of Colin MacLeod. Directed by Yoshiaki Kawajiri, his propensity for over-the-top violence, striking visual flourishes and breathtaking compositions perfectly suit the tale; it helps that he pairs these with some top-notch set pieces, stylish sword fights with a sense of weight that makes the immortals feel genuinely dangerous, and o…
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Highlander is a cult classic film from 1986. It's so ingrained into pop culture that even if you've never seen it you know the basic premise and the classic line "there can be only one." It's also a very divisive film where you tend to either hate or love it and critics are largely in the former camp but there's enough of a fanbase that it spawned multiple sequels, several TV versions and an anime film. Which is what we're going to be looking at today. How did our old friends at Madhouse handle the property?
Story:
Colin MacLeod is one of the titular Highlanders. For millennia, he's chased Marcus Octavius who crucified his wife, Moya, long ago when their tribe was routed by the Roman Empire. He's chased him through basically ever major conflict the writers could think of and far into th…
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I'll note where there a spoilers in the review
Seeing as its a Yoshiaki Kawajiri movie (director of Wicked City, Ninja Scroll, Vampire D, etc), I came in expecting the usual fantastic art with a mediocre to even hilarious plot attached to it. Can't say I was disappointed in that regard. His films always have that distinct heavy shading style to them, with sharp jawbones that you could cut diamonds with. Which if you are like me and love watching anything with a cool artstyle, that's more than enough reason to give this a watch. The story and characters are probably even worse than Wicked City or Cyber City Oeda, so if you didn't like those then certainly don't bother with this.
Now that being said, the art isn't as polished as Ninja Scroll or Vampire D, nor does it have that atmospheric…
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Well well well
Let’s criticize this work a little bit
The World
This genre was very popular in 90s, you know the works about miserable future of the mankind civilisations, people are very few and they are weak and there is an evil force with modern technology trying to kill everyone, oh damn this sort of works bother me.
The Plot
The story has no new idea or anything freak, it’s common and dull, however the events of the story are very boring, there is no comedy in it at all nor a good tragedy, and the fights weren’t good enough, the characters too were primitive, like any child can make better than them, by the way the worst thing to me in the plot that the protagonist fallen in love with a hooker!! Yuk what a nasty and disgusting idea!!anyway I have a note for shounen fans, it’s re…
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Highlander: The Search for Vengeance is another take on the long running Highlander franchise. I have to admit this was my very first exposure to the franchise, and up to this day I still haven't seen any of the films or TV series. I knew absolutely nothing about the story at all until I saw this anime feature, with that said, I really have no idea on what a fan of the series would be looking for; but I do have an idea on what an action oriented anime fan would be looking for, and I don't believe many of them will be too disappointed. Now for fans of the director, I recommend setting your standards a bit low here.
The film moves at a good pace and delivers some decent action scenes mainly involving sword play. Since this film was directed by Yoshiaki Kawajiri, those whom are familiar with…
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I'll be honest and say I never thought the Highlander series had its own anime movie and I recently got into the series when I turn 20 since I watch the first movie and bit of the TV series; both cartoon and live action, still planning to watch the rest, even the sequels.
I found the movie in my local 'nerd store', I didn't think it was real until I did some research and I decide to give it a watch, and I really enjoy the movie so much.
-The story is a basic revenge plot, with a war going on as main character enter the town and become involved. Its not bad it is written well, thou you can tell where its going and how its going to end, it keeps your interest.
-I'm glad the made a new character for the movie then using Connor or Ducan. Thou Colin is 'one character motivation'; to get reven…
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Art: Character designs were decent, though perhaps too similar to Kawajiri's previous works. Marcus looked too much like Gemma. Clothing, backgrounds, weapons etc were all fairly detailed.
Animation: Pretty decent. Fight scenes were fairly well animated, with some slow motion scenes here and there. Could have really done with some single-framed sword fights though, that would have been really awesome.
Choreography: Bit too much sword bashing and sword breaking in this anime. I laughed when Colin's thin katana cut straight through Octavius' thick sword. Sword deflecting bullets was really dumb as well. So overall the choreography isn't that great really. Certainly nothing breathtaking like Sword of the Stranger or VHD:Bloodlust.
Conclusion: The movie felt really disjointed. Like it was…
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As a big fan of the Highlander franchise, the first film and the tv series, and not the sucky movie sequels, I had really high hopes for this film. When you consider it was directed by Yoshiaki Kawajiri (who as you know directed such classics as Ninja Scroll and Vampire D bloodlust) and the script was penned by one of the writers of the tv series, then I feel I was warranted in expecting a great film. Not to mention that Imagi and Madhouse did the animation.
Unfortunately for me the Search For Vengeance was a bit hit and miss for me. While it ticks all the boxes for what you would expect from a film in the highlander franchise it does little else beyond that.
The film is set in a post-apocalyptic New York City where the protagonist Colin Macleod, Of the Clan Macleod (naturally) arrives a…
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---Dcm18's quick reviews---
Story: 6 (Good but very predictable)
Art: 9 (Exelent quality)
Sound: 7 (Not memorable, but nice)
Character: 5 (Generic characters...)
Enjoyment: 7 (Meh at least not boring)
Overall: 6.8 (Very americanized flavor, kinda ruins the movie)
Read at the sourceAshythaka
Im no Highlander fan, Im just a geek... I've never been interested in Highlander as a franchise,...let's just get it on.
The story was pretty fair, there were no breath taking action sequences but even tho, it was enjoyful. It moves from the future to the past and back... simply to bring a little bit of complication in to it. Its all about revenge and hate , and anger, and how you cant win if those feelings are leading your way kinda thing. Im sure you know what I mean since weve seen it before...
The Animation is really great, everyone will enjoy the animations and effects that this movie has. There are few really good gory scenes in which are used effects that are just marvellous, so there is something to look at.
The music (rock or metal, sorry that I can't tell) is fitting but after…
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This is about the most american anime I have ever seen in my entire life. It's so disgustingly terrible. There were a couple reasons I watched this title. The first, and biggest reason, was that I saw this as I was browsing amazon. It got some nice reviews so I thought to myself "hey, I should watch and then buy this." Now I've seen two highlander movies and a good portion of the TV series and I can honestly say that this is the worst Highlander creation I've ever seen.
Story: This is what happens when you get a writer who is 1. subpar and 2. Not Japanese. The writer for this has written for Highlander before, alot for highlander. I think that he's written ONLY for Higlander. The formula for this anime is VERY simple and yet incredibly complex. Revenge. I've seen revenge done before, and…
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