It would mean that, in the north of Scotland, it did not get light until 10am in winter, and the Scots have therefore decided that it is a Sassenach plot to ensure that the Highlander is kept in the dark.

ECONOMIST: Time��s up

There is too much trolling around in the dark, and some garbled and repetitive plot turns in the film, but, when the action breaks out across that slate-colored plain, Scott uses 3-D well, giving the movement persuasive depth.

NEWYORKER: That��s Life

Then she weeded her yams and cassava where they grew in the soft, dark earth and watered the pineapple plant that marked the centre of her plot.

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