The 1986 fantasy flick Highlander repeats throughout that “there can only be one”. It’s unsurprising therefore that it all muddles down to an epic finale between the two remaining members of the Immortal race to decide that one: the one who claims “The Prize” upon cutting off the other’s head. No viewer phone-ins, coin-tosses or democratic elections to choose here. It’s decision by decapitation (after an epic sword-dual to the death first of course.

Can Connor MacLeod (Christopher Lambert) emerge victorious over The Kurgan (Clancy Brown)? Sparks fly as the two lock in steel-clashing combat upon the roof of Silvercup Studios in New York. The lightning flies and the fearsome nun-frightening Kurgan (who at this point is looking extremely ugly after a haircut) and MacLeod find themselves taking their battle through the ceiling into an open empty space. The blue-tinged silhouette sword fight that follows was undoubtedly lifted by Quentin Tarantino for the House of Blue Leaves massacre in Kill Bill, and the unfolding action in the dark makes for such aesthetically-intriguing sequence in Highlander.

It all makes for a supercharged, pretty spectacular denouement that is certainly memorable. Whether it resounds more in memory than the sight of a bronzed, katana-wielding Sean Connery unashamedly camping it up in Renaissance-era costume though is debatable…

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