The original “Highlander” wasn’t exactly high art but it was a fun film, the second outing involved sci-fi, totally contradicted the first picture and was a real mess but “Highlander III: The Final Dimension” manages to be a boring repeat of the original that still messes with the story.

Despite keeping the three in the title, the film ignores the events of the second movie as we see Connor MacLeod (Christopher Lambert “Highlander”, “Mortal Kombat”) is deceived he won the ‘Prize’ by killing all the other ‘Highlanders’ via decapitation but he forgot the master of illusion Kane (Mario Van Peebles “Ali”). Now there must be one final battle so get ready to see the same scenes from the first film redone on a harsher budget.

Christopher Lambert was never picked for his acting skills but this film has a distinct lack of sword fighting so having him here is pointless. Mako stars briefly as yet another wizard character and it’s really stupid. The villain is very close to the one in the first movie and although you can see Mario Van Peebles is trying but he just can’t beat the Kurgan (Clancy Brown) from the original. Thankfully Sean Connery (“Dr. No”) stayed far away from this third film.

Unlike “Highlander II: The Quickening” you won’t laugh at the badness of the movie as in “Highlander III” it’s just a pointless reshooting of old scenes with the tiniest of alterations. We get the same scene involving the bad guy driving a helpless soul around and we get the same prostitute scene to name a few. The bad guy in the movie changes appearance (like a cheap version the T-1000 in “Terminator 2: Judgement Day”) but the passers-by never seem to notice and it was then that I realised that this film hasn’t even moved on from the stupid writing of the first sequel. “Highlander III” will struggle to appeal to even the most diehard “Highlander” geeks.