Movie review - "Highlander" (1986) **1/2

I wonder what it would have been like being a New York City parking attendant in the mid 80s - doing your boring job calmly, then getting a call from an irate customer about two men duelling with swords on Level4. The core of this film is one of those gloriously over the top concepts that really work - the lonely chosen, who can't die. The fights are well done but the most moving thing is the sequence where Christopher Lambert stays with his true love, despite the fact that she ages and he doesn't - this is really good (as is the actor who plays her, whereas Chloe Webb, who is Lambert's 20th century love, is a bit bland making the last third a bit of a chore). Lambert himself is a bit awkward and stiff, but Sean Connery provides some much needed spark and Clancy Wilson has a high old time as the baddie.