"There can be only one."
Dude. How can a movie/tv series NOT be good with a line like that?!?!?!
The adventure began with a movie titled "Highlander" in 1986 starring Christopher Lambert, Clancy Brown, Roxanne Hart and (guest starring?) Sean Connery.
The basic premise is this: There are immortals amongst us. No one, not even themselves, know where they came from or why they have been forced to play "the game". The "game" is an ultimate battle between good and evil where the last man standing gets the "prize". The rules are pretty simple....an immortal cannot be killed unless their head is cut off, and with that-the victor gains the powers of his fallen foe.
Thus, Connor Macleod, the protagonist, is born in 1500s Scotland, where he is, in essence, killed by an evil Immortal named Victor Kruger. Kruger however is driven off before he can take Connor's head, and so Connor revives after what appeared to be a fatal wound to a mortal man. His fellow clansmen drive him out, assuming it is the work of the devil. This is the basic background--the main plot point is Kruger is back, this time in 1985, to take the head of Connor, who is the last Immortal left.
So: There can be only one.
All in all---AWESOME STORY LINE
Even Ricky Bobby agrees (at 3:52):
The original trailer for the movie is down below.
P.S. The movie is currently on Hulu (thats hulu.com people), so I'd suggest you check it out if your into this type of genre movie! There was a slew of other Highlander movies that came out after the original, but they are all garbage and shouldn't really be bothered with.
The movie showed a couple of flashbacks to different time periods, from 1500s Scotland to Germany in WWII, but it had to focus back on the main storyline and the audience's views into past events Connor went through were short lived.
That's where the 1990s show Highlander came in. Starring Adrian Paul, as Duncan Macleod (Connor's cousin), the show revolved around a general plot point for each season while opening up more in depth views of the past lives and events immortals witnessed.
The entire series has been uploaded onto YouTube, so I suggest if you have time you could check out a couple of episodes. The first couple of seasons, in my personal view, are kind of lame and drag on, but the later seasons are put together a lot better.
The intro for season four is down below...it'll give you a basic idea of what the plot for the tv show is about.
