Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #142570 in DVD
• Released on: 1999-10-26
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Formats: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Letterboxed, THX, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: Spanish
• Number of discs: 2
• Running time: 225 minutes

Customer Reviews

Shocking image quality
This review is about "Highlander - 10th anniversary director's cut" only - I haven't seen "The Quickening" yet. You will not find a worse image quality on DVD even if you tried! First, it is appalling to sell a letterbox transfer as "state of the art", as it says on the box. Only an anamorphic transfer deserves to be called that.... The picture is so bad, I truely have seen better looking VHS-tapes. ...The noise in some scenes is so bad, it looks like snowflakes - this cannot be attributed solely to the high-speed film used for some parts of the movie. Diagonal lines are completely torn up by the lack of resolution. There are artifacts of all kinds throughout the movie. It is a shame! The sound quality is very disappointing, too - this is what you get when you try to squeeze a stereo master into the 5.1 format - very unnatural sounds with artificial, reverberated ambience and dialogues. Some very disturbing noise (hiss) is clearly audible, too. I have to use all my discipline not to resort to very personal, R-rated comments about the studio and producers who are responsible for this terrible DVD. Too bad, because this classic movie would have deserved much better.

Superb Sound
Highlander is now a 'classic', I have the boxed set and I would agree that the picture could have been better but as for the sound you would miss out if you bought the VHS edition because on a dolby digital 5.1 system the sound has got to be a 5/5......superb ! Clearly what the picture lacks the sound makes up for. Highlander II the directors cut is far better that the original version which seemed nothing to do with the original but the directors cut puts the pieces together and overall is a good film....doesn't surpass the original but does any sequel ?

Totally horrific rendering to DVD
I was waiting for the release of this box set so that maybe i could get a remade version of the Highlander DVD which, as we all know, has to be the worst rendering to DVD in the market... Well let me tell you you're better of buying the VHS version. I won't even mention Highlander II since it is not only a horrible sequel to such a masterpiece it has as horrible a video quality as the first movie. Only good thing here is the audio quality which i'm sure is not worth the extra $$$. Stay away from this box set or any version of these movies in DVD format. Buy the VHS version of Highlander. You'll be much happier. I give this 1 Star cause it has Sean Connery in it. But if I had to evaluate DVD quality in both audio and video i would give it -5 stars.