Highlander: Endgame: The end of Connor MacLeod 

Adrian Paul was grossly underrated

"Who Wants to Live Forever?" should have been playing the entire scene.

I cried when this happened. I love Connor and I loved Duncan. Only Connor would give Duncan this. He chose to let Duncan be the one to end him. They loved each other like brothers. 😢

I had "who wants to live forever?(when love must die)" playing in my head while watching this. It was clear why connor wanted to die. He'd had enough.

You'd think that Connor's quickening would be longer and cooler looking that a standard no body kill.

What has always gotten me-when Connor says “One of us has to die now”. The resignation in his voice, the finality- Connor was ready to go. Weary in body and soul. Everyone he had loved save Duncan gone to either mortal death or immortal vengeance. He had lived and loved and lost, many times over. At the end, he wanted to stop Kell, give Duncan the chance to do it, and peace at last. At a point in everyone’s life, I think everyone thinks they’ve seen it all, that they’re just tired and worn out. And they think about an end to it all. Connor went out a hero and a true Highlander. His clan and Ramirez would have been proud

There can be only one…Lord Raiden.

I cried like a baby during this scene…. I felt the Pain / love and memories between Teacher and Student…..

I saw this with my dad because he’s a big fan and loved the show back in the day. This scene broke his heart because he loved Conner while I loved his cousin because I loved the series. Conner got his proper send off.

before I even clicked on this i heard Duncan say "I love you"...I AM crying.

I identified with Duncan more as I liked how the series allowed us to delve into the character/universe more deeply but this was still sad.

I loved the show. I dont remember this at all. Maybe i blocked it out lol. It made me actually cry. Not only losing Connor but having Duncan do it. But it was seeing his memories of his long dead wife and his spirit seeming to go back to Scotland to her. I lost my wife a few years back and it brought those emotions up. Wish I could be with her. When we first met the first movie she rented for us was Highlander. It was late 1987 and Id not seen it then. Was amazing. Miss ya love.

I'm.... confused. This is why you don't make sequels to movies that never needed one. The first Highlander movie is the ONLY Highlander movie in my book.

This tragic scene made me shed a few tears the first time I saw it. Connor was tired and ready to go. It was only fitting that Duncan absorbed Connor's power. Damned if I didn't choke up again when Duncan said "I love you, Connor..." There can be only one.

For me, the first episode of the Highlander saga is one of the most beautiful films I have seen in my life. This quest for immortality after which all humanity runs. We will probably get there one day. But I also never forgot Beatie Edney who played the role of Heather in the very first film of the Highlander saga. This brings us back to more basic emotions but so intense too...

Two men forced to fight to the death, by a nature and a destiny they did not choose but could avoid. What a great story line.

Duncan went from powerful to gigapowerful in a very short time getting the quickening from both connor and jacob..

I would have expected that connor's quickening would have been a lot more intense

Loved Highlander I and Highlander Endgame. This scene was heart ❤️ wrenching 😢

The fact that Christopher lambert is practically blind and does all his own stunts/fighting scenes makes me love him more.

Such an emotional moment, a great goodbye to a legendary character and a brilliant movie.

Duncan: Have you forgotten why we live?! Conner: No...just that god-awful second film.

It was so sad to see Conor give himself up. He was always so strong

Christopher Lambert was great in the movies, but honestly, I really like Adrian Paul's character more. We really got to know him in the tv series, and I think it's fitting that he ended up being the last Immortal. Also, I got the feeling the Connor was tired of living, so he got to save Duncan, and put a end to things at the same time.

I am partial to the series with Duncan, having grown up with it, but this scene with Conner is well acted. Well done.

Highlander was by far my favourite silly nerd franchise when I was a teen. I'd come home from school for lunch and watch the TV show while eating. I wouldn't miss it, not even on 9/11 - while everyone else was glued to the news I was probably the only one tuned in to the Highlander rerun on whatever channel it was on (Space? can't remember).

Connor knew Duncan was the one that needed to survive and gain strength from his experience with the Kurgen and how he gained strength from killing Ramirez. That forced Connor into "hiding" so to speak for centuries.

I bawled like a baby in the theater when I watched this. My love for both of the characters...to see their pain of the situation. Ugh...fuck...I still cry just watching the clip.

I love this movie.. don't care what anyone says

I swear the strongest immortals always led to the shortest quickenings

What I find interesting about tales of immortality is when you contrast Connors end here with our desperate need to survive, to live, and for many of us our absolute dread of dying. And yet here we have a soul that's been put through the wringer for hundreds of years. He's lost so much that to him, death is a blessing. It's such an eye opener in terms of the contrast to the way the everyman thinks and in a way, the concept is almost alien to us. One has to do a lot of soul searching and growth in order to reach this kind of acceptance and to be able to set the terror of death aside and accept it with open arms.

Duncan would have been an interesting Bond.

I cried my eyes out in the theater when Duncan killed Connor. I cried just as much just watching this clip. ❤️

Damn, now I'm hype to see the Highlander content again.

I thought that Connor was the last one in the original movie. I never understood how there suddenly came to be a whole bunch more for a TV series.

This never happened, because Connor killed the Kurgan during the Gathering when there were only four immortals left. Thankfully so.

I would have liked to have seen Ramirez and the child he saved during ww2 deleted scene in the flashbacks.

No matter what everybody's comments is I could still remember the regional highlander movies and this actually put A tear in my eye cause.I can remember this movie long and this was a special scene for the whole highlander series

Connor wanted to die. But he really didn't need to. There was so much more to be done. So much more for him to live for. I suffered through so many bad movies but still had love for the franchise until this moment. This was when I cracked and decided to walk away.

I get why they killed off Connor (Lambert has visibly aged a lot and this was before de-aging CGI was good) but this was still the moment I checked out of the franchise for good. Duncan was a great character but it just wasn't the same knowing they'd killed off Connor.

Now that i think about it in the last movie "THE SOURCE" when Duncan sword got broken it would have been epic if he had busted out Conor's sword, but he didn't just another reminder how disappointing that movie was.

This really shows how much of a superior swordsman Connor is to Duncan. As per Connor's own lesson: "it's about the manipulation of the mind, as well as the body". Connor basically manipulated Duncan into killing him because he knew he would not have been in the right head space to kill the immortal who is coming after them. Excellent job Connor 👏 👏👏👏

The Quickening needed to be more epic

Highlander is proof that sometimes, sequels should just not be made.

Still sad about Richie and Connor.

There is, in my opinion, a greater tragedy than Connor's death. The fact that Adrian Paul never got to play James Bond. 😭

I just wish they would have played Queen's Who Wants To Live Forever here.. It's the only thing missing in an otherwise perfect ending for Connor.

This has to be one of the best endings...to ANY drama. Respect!!!

I remember before this came out, there was rumblings about one of the Macleods getting killed off...no one kow who?? Then when that scene happened, everyone was on the edge of their seats! I cried!

I need this movie remade by someone who truly understands and loves these characters because I need to see what is arguably the most POWERFUL Quickening with today's graphical abilities

That's why i love movies, a France man playing a Scott...

I thought this was the best of the highlander movies. Hard to believe its over 20 years old, time goes fast.

"Remember Duncan. In the end, there can be only one." That should have been the last thing Connor said to Duncan.

"There can only be one , let it be Duncan MacLeod the Highlander"

Connor was tired of living I think. He was sick of losing people and seeing them die.

I saw this movie in the theater, and I hated it. There never should have been a Highlander sequel in the first place; and every sequel undid the original story, and made Connor's quest for the Prize and victory over the Kurgan a tragic joke. That's not to say that I disliked Duncan or the TV show, which were good, but my sentiment still stands. By the time they film Endgame, Lambert is visibly older and slower, and didn't fit the role so well anymore (not to mention the awful haircut). But the deconstruction of Connor in this film is like unto the treatment of Luke Skywalker in The Last Jedi. It was like watching a friend die of cancer, and feeling that awful sense of relief that the suffering is finally over. He deserved better. And the reasoning for it in the story made NO sense! So, forgettable Bad Guy has X amount of kills, and Duncan and Connor each had around half that number. By the movie's logic, Duncan taking Connor's Quickening now gives him more kills than the Bad Guy, even he only added ONE kill to his tally. BUT, if it's the quality of kills that matter, then bringing up the number was pointless. After all, if Bad Guy spent the last three centuries un-aliving all his low-ranking henchmen, along with every Ritchie Ryan he came across, noobs with no accumulated power, experience, or skill, then his total accumulated power should not be that great. When Fitzcairn was abducted by the evil Watchers who were going to take his head, his worry was that his Quickening would be wasted- all his power and experience gone, just POOF. That means that his power upon release should be much greater than someone like Ritchie. Meanwhile, the Clan MacLeod has been taking on every high-ranking evil Immortal they've come across for centuries, so much so that Connor has a case of "Dark Quickening" at one point. BUt no, the story treats it like a 2nd grade math problem, and they stuck with it, and it was stupid and pointless. But I guess it was still better than :The Source...

This was great. So wish both of them can do one more Highlander movie.

If they ever reboot this, I hope they lean more heavily on the physical power increase from a quickening, and the ability to access memories/skills.

I love that they included Connor going home to Heather!

Connor finally after so long……found peace….

Good thing Duncan is later able to revive him with his immortal powers (as Connor does to Ramirez in pt 2).

This movie had a TON of potential, and a built in audience from the movies & show, but studio interference destroyed it.

This was so unfair to Duncan. After being tricked into killing Richie a few years prior, no way he didnt have PTSD.

Love both of these guys so much 😭

I saw this with my mom. I wanted to cry because these two characters where just the best.

I only used to watch Highlander occasionally but I always enjoyed it and thought it had a very cool concept. I don’t know the backstory of why this had to happen but it still saddens me anyway. 2 great characters!

Thus,in the end when the torch is passed. There can only be One..

I feel like Lambert used a body double during the fight.

Missed a great opportunity for him to say There can be only one after he said I love you. Always peeved me.

0:25 Magnífica escena para la posteridad. Duncan podía ser más hábil y ágil, pero Connor tenía un as bajo la manga con ese movimiento que le enseñó a Duncan en Italia.

"Oh yes, we're doing this... Every day, every breath we took was toward this end. Look inside and tell me I'm wrong"

Damm it still gets to me after all these years 😢

As much as I love the Highlander franchise, it's always bugged me that nobody seemed to care about continuity. Each film is just a standalone adventure that happens to feature an immortal guy named MacLeod and the overall lore but they do not fit together otherwise. This entry is a direct sequel to the TV series which again has its own distinct timeline from any of the movies prior to this one

They screwed this up so bad..Had they reversed the roles and Duncan died, it would;d have brought everything together in the story line and why Duncan was not at the finale fight and Duncan would have died the honorable and unselfish death of sacrificing himself , just as in his character as a in the series...

Who remember Highlander to series? Adrian Paul is one and only

The story ended when Connor defeated The Kurrgan.

It was finally his time to go. So many loved and lossed. He doesnt have to suffer the ptsd anymore.

hi.. only saw highlander 1 before the t.v series..Adrian Paul (duncan macleod)on the t.v. series was so fun + also emotionally satisfying to watch for a few reasons :) now i'm watching them all - even the bad movies are good if you ask me! There aren't as many original movies/stories nowadays it seems, or, I can't find as many? I have been enjoying them all. I really want to visit Scotland..

Connor was not truly dead, he was reborn as Rayden, MORTAL KOMBAT!!!

Duncan was always the bettrer swordsman, but Connor had the clearer perspective. It took ages for me to see it. Im glad Duncan stuck to his morality and convictions, he was given no choice. It's not really a noble sacrifice that Connor made but I feel for Duncan all the same.

To bad that in the Newly Released Highlander in 4K they didn’t add the Quickening Lightning Affects in Post Production. That would made the movie better.

Connor won the Prize like 3 times...Duncan must have had the biggest power boost ever.

My only thing is, it’s just could you imagine living for that long having a sword fight with your cousin that was amazing teacher and help you learn different things and then seeing that in your mind and different things replaying it over and over and over for years and years and years and knowing every single little detail of that fight to be able to overcome that that’s what you really want to do in life and I believe a lot of the things that you take from like this movie or things is if you can protect your self and be better I think that’s a good way to be

Great series. So underrated.

They killed the whole series with this episode

Seeing how you get the powers of the one you kill and the ones they killed duncan just got a huge mountain worth of power.

God this movie was so stupid.. the fact that Connor would feel so bad killing the main baddies dad just because he was a priest... said fanatical priest burned his mother alive at the stake and tried to kill him as well. There was absolutely nothing to be distraught or ashamed about.

One of the best fantasy series I've ever watched...does anyone know where I can re watch it??

The Highlander movies had so much promise but just SUCKED. That final abomination, The Source (?) was unwatchable. The series was a far superior product.

These kinds of moments are very powerful.

I saw the original as a child and absolutely loved it. As an adult, I still absolutely love it. Every thing that came after the original film, including sequels, animations, anything, were just insults to the audience, and complete garbage.

Love the flashbacks to earlier in the movie. And like, one shot from the original.

I think I’m the only Highlander fan to have enjoyed the second movie. Continuity wise it’s a mess. But as a stand alone movie I really enjoyed it more than any of the other sequels.

These movies and show got me into fencing and Japanese swordsmanship. Revisiting this, I now see how theatrical the swordplay is. It's silly but fun.

Why are they fighting each other?? I honestly don’t remember or I didn’t see it as a kid. Could someone please let me know why this two are fighting each other?

This scene gets me every single time darn Ninja onions.

Connor's death was the only thing I hated about this film

gotta say even after all these years. Adrian Paul was still the best actor to show what taking a Quickening was like. Him on screen getting that power was like watching someone beat the shit out of you and then him coming back where he looked exhausted. Just the cherry on top.

I grieved after the death of Connor Macleod.

"There can be only one". Snifes....grabs hanky. Im not crying, your crying.