I have the theory that
Highlander was caused by
Gregory Widen wanting to write about people with
long coats wearing
katanas fighting in present day
New York. He then had this
excellent idea of
inmortals fighting through different ages for a
prize.
The first movie was very good. Astounding visuals, very cool sword fights and Sean Connery. Later they had to ruin it with parts two and three, which were absolutely awful. At least the TV series were nice, even if they didn't even try to be coherent with the movie; they ruined it again by mixing up the original movie and the series in the fourth movie, which was bad.