Thanks to an indecisive and cliché-ridden script, this ambitious fantasy thriller emerges as a very curious egg indeed. 'I've been alive for four and half centuries,' groans MacLeod (Christopher Lambert), one of the 'immortals' seeking 'the prize'. 'Well,' shrugs the heroine (Roxanne Hart), unfazed. 'Everyone's got their problems.' True, true, but this film has a multitude. There are some well-staged duels from a director (Russell Mulcahy) with a strong pictorial sense, before we get to the final clash between MacLeod and his deadly enemy The Kurgan (Clancy Brown), although what a Kurgan is (apart from a humanised dose of evil energy) is never properly explained. The rest of the movie isn't always so exciting, even though it's often attractive to look at. Lambert, Hart, Brown and Sean Connery (as MacLeod's 16th-century tutor) all have their moments. Special effects, like the film, look expensive and are often impressively done.

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