History Film / HighlanderEndgame

* VillainousBreakdown: Jacob's sanity (which there wasn't a lot of in the first place) pretty much evaporates the more Duncan persists during their final battle, as he even resorts to stabbing him repeatdly, clearly trying to inflict as much pain possible on him, while shouting angrily how Duncan's "lost his faith". Just when he recomposes himself and grabs his sword to finally decapitate him, he hears Connor's voice calling him alongside seeing flashes of Connor's face on Duncan's, leading into an OhCrap moment that Duncan takes advantage of to finally kill him.

* AdvertisedExtra: Wrestling/{{Edge|Wrestler}}'s role was heavily promoted by {{Wrestling/WWE}}, including a mock in-ring Academy Awards ceremony and an Entertainment Tonight segment in which Edge invited co-stars Christopher Lambert and Adrian Paul [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kb1_38445vA backstage]]. Edge's screen-time totals about two minutes with two brief lines of dialogue and a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSXHUikakTY single, extremely truncated fight scene that's played mostly for laughs.]]

* AdvertisedExtra: {{Wrestling/Edge}}'s role was heavily promoted by {{Wrestling/WWE}}, including a mock in-ring Academy Awards ceremony and an Entertainment Tonight segment in which Edge invited co-stars Christopher Lambert and Adrian Paul [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kb1_38445vA backstage]]. Edge's screen-time totals about two minutes with two brief lines of dialogue and a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSXHUikakTY single, extremely truncated fight scene that's played mostly for laughs.]]

Creator/DonnieYen notably had a role as Jin Ke, an Asian Highlander, besides serving as martial arts choreographer.

* ReallyDeadMontage: [[spoiler: Connor]] gets one after he is beheaded.

* RevengeMyopia: Kell doesn't care that he and his father invoked BurnTheWitch on Connor's mother first, giving him a valid reason to attack them.

* ContinuitySnarl: The movie's attempts to weld the movie and series timelines results in a lot of continuity errors, but the most egregious would be Duncan's ex-wife, despite the series itself having established quite clearly that Duncan never had, nor would, marry.

** [[spoiler:Connor forces Duncan to defeat him with [[ChekhovsSkill a technique he had taught him in the past]], and take his power]].

* GoryDiscretionShot: Unlike most of the beheadings in the franchise, [[spoiler:Connor's]] happens very briefly, is obscured by blinding light, and the way his body falls obscures his headless corpse.

* IronicEcho: When meeting in the graveyard, Kell asks Connor "What's wrong? Don't want to be inside me?" Connor asks him the same question during the final fight.

* ObviousStuntDouble: It's always easy to spot Creator/ChristopherLambert's stunt double during the battle between Connor and Duncan, especially during the wide shots. In general, the stuntman is way more adept with a blade than Lambert.

* RememberTheNewGuy: Faith and Kell had never been mentioned before this movie, even thought he former is Duncan's ex-wife and the latter is Connor's childhood best friend. Made worse by the fact that the series had previously stated Duncan never had a wife.

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: In 1555, Connor killed Kell and Father Rainey (Kell's adopted father) as revenge for his mother being put to death for witchcraft. Kell becomes immortal and vows to return the favor--spending centuries hunting him and targeting those he cares about.

** A group of Immortals live in voluntary stasis in the "Sanctuary," which is located in a large cathedral, but they are murdered by Kell. In the original theatrical version, the Sanctuary is referred to as being [[TruceZone holy ground]], but this annoyed fans of the series since it had been established that Immortals are not allowed to kill one another on holy ground. This rule was even followed by every villain, no matter how evil. So the line was excised from the DVD version. But putting aside the fact that it's in a cathedral, the Sanctuary not being holy ground is just as nonsensical when you stop and wonder why a bunch of Immortals opted to be put into voluntary stasis in a place where they'd be vulnerable. Or why the renegade Watchers would establish the Sanctuary on a place that was not Holy Ground. Their goal was to prevent The Prize from being won, ergo they didn't want the immortals there losing their heads any more than the immortals themselves...
** Especially since the fix could have been one line of dialogue. Holy Ground had been an established rule since the first film, but the series really played it up in the episode "Little Tin God," where there was a Watcher legend that two Immortals fighting on Holy Ground had been the cause of the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius on Pompeii. A simple "guess the legend was wrong" would have quelled a great deal of dissent.

* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Kell guesses that Connor's ultimate fear isn't simply losing the Game, but losing to him and having his power make him stronger.
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: In the past, Connor had guessed that Faith (at the time known as Kate) had the potential to be Immortal and told Duncan. Duncan made the choice to bring it out so that they could always be together, but she resents him for taking away her ability to have children, grow old with a loved one, and lead a normal life.