Highlander: The Source

"The quest for mortality begins."

2007 1h 26m EN

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★4.1TMDB · 242

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Synopsis

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The world is falling into chaos. As he roams a crumbling city, Duncan MacLeod, the Highlander, remembers happier times before the love of his life left... Hopeless and alone, MacLeod finds his way to a band of immortal companions, including his mysterious friend Methos, and a mortal, Watcher Joe Dawson. Together this small group sets out on a quest to find the origin of the first Immortal.

“The quest for mortality begins.”

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Cast

Adrian Paul
Duncan MacLeod
Thekla Reuten
Anna Teshemka
Cristian Solimeno
The Guardian
Peter Wingfield
Methos
Jim Byrnes
Joe Dawson
Stephen Rahman Hughes
Zai Jie
Stephen Wight
Reggie Weller
Thom Fell
Cardinal Giovanni

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Brett Leonard
Writers: Mark Bradley, Stephen Kelvin Watkins
Languages: English
Countries: Lithuania, United Kingdom, United States of America

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RUNTIME

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86 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.

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MONEY

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Earned back only 2% of its budget on initial theatrical — a commercial disappointment on release.

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ERA

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Released 19 years ago.

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WORLD

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International production across 3 countries: Lithuania, United Kingdom, United States of America.

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CINEMA

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Part of the "Highlander Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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ERA

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Directed by Brett Leonard, shot by Steve Arnold. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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7 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by George Kallis. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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8 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Les Healey shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Brett Leonard directs. Steve Arnold behind the camera. George Kallis scores. Les Healey cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. A commercial under-performer on release. Produced in Lithuania, United Kingdom, United States of America. Dialogue in English.

Trivia

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186 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.
2Earned back only 2% of its budget on initial theatrical — a commercial disappointment on release.
3Released 19 years ago.
4International production across 3 countries: Lithuania, United Kingdom, United States of America.
5Part of the "Highlander Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
6Directed by Brett Leonard, shot by Steve Arnold. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
7Original score by George Kallis. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
8Editor Les Healey shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
9Adrian Paul and Thekla Reuten and Cristian Solimeno carry the top of the cast.
10Marketing tagline: "The quest for mortality begins.".
11IMDB entry: tt0299981 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
12Classified under 10 themes, including "beheading", "revenge", "murder", "killer".

The technical file

Cinematography: Steve Arnold
Original score: George Kallis
Editing: Les Healey
Production design: Tom Brown
Runtime: 86 min · 1h 26m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $13,000,000
Box office: $213,205
Return: 2% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): R
IMDB: Highlander: The Source (2007)

Part of

Highlander Collection

Following the exploits of two immortal Scottish highlanders Conner and Duncan Macleod. Born of different times and fighting throughout the centuries to gain the mystical prize. Spanning history friendship, devastating relationships and legendary battles each immortal learns that there seemingly never ending life is more of a curse than a gift. But for the sake of mankind they must go on fighting to survive until only one remains

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Filipe Manuel Neto2022-10-26
★ 1/10
A movie that really isn't worth our time. After a good first movie, a series of sequels that alternated between the horrible and the tolerable, and even a TV series (which I've never seen, but I don't feel like watching either), the Highlander franchise brings us the latter. film, which tries to be the sequel to its predecessor. What we have here is, essentially, a TV movie made with a very limited budget and the small minds that usually work for TV. I wish I could say a little more about the script, but the only thing I will say is that the film, set in the near future, shows a dystopian and dark humanity, and the Immortals try to find the Source of Immortality in Europe (and we can assume it's the origin of the powers and immortality they already possess, of course). Duncan, like Connor before him, is doomed to cheesy suffering in all things women, but his girlfriend, by an incredible coincidence, the kind that only happens in movies, is the only living being who knows the way to that source! In addition to a poorly written and absurd script, we have bad dialogue, innocuous and very idiotic villains and a series of characters that are simply underwritten. Adrian Paul is quite weak, and seems to only be able to handle the role of protagonist for his youth and heartthrob appearance. Thekla Reuten, who is tasked with being the beautiful girlfriend of this film, also doesn't do anything particularly relevant and the rest of the cast doesn't deserve a real mention, because they do nothing more than show up, say what they have to say, die at the moment when they need to die. It seems that the producers were looking for students out of the dramatic course to make the film! Technically, we have standard cinematography, a little more televised than cinematic, and some decent CGI and special effects, but little else. Set in Eastern Europe, the film chose the filming locations reasonably well and is visually pleasing in many moments, but it doesn't bring anything truly good or surprising. The soundtrack takes advantage of some Queen hits, but in the voices and interpretations of other people.

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