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Taking place some years after the first film and completely ignoring the second Highlander III finds Connor MacLeod embroiled in yet another battle to be the One.  After he believed that he had gone through the final quickening and been given the chance to grow old and to bear children MacLeod has come to the rude awakening that none of it is true.  He continues his tortured existence until it becomes clear that he is not the last immortal.  Back after the death of his first wife, and his mentor Ramirez, MacLeod made his way to the far east and across the ocean to Japan where a new mentor taught him even more and gave him his katana.  Another immortal named Kane and his two flunkies came to kill the old Japanese man and to take his magic talents of illusion by taking his head.  The old man has revenge on Kane after he loses his head to the man and brings down the cave upon them.  MacLeod escapes and back to the "present" has to face a released Kane, but will he be the One finally?

Highlander III is a fairly good film but nothing special.  The acting is all right and Mario Van Peebles is good in his role.  The story follows a good pace and has a fair mix of well timed flashbacks that explain the finer details of what is going on as well as forming a pretext for the romantic sub-plot.  Still the film is fairly predictable although there are a few surprises here and there.  The scenes with the magic and illusions are well done and add some flavour and interest to the film that it otherwise would not have.  The vocal soundtrack is par for the course as is the musical score and of course a let down from the work by Queen in the first one.

( Thank you for reading my review.
Bob Male)

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