Immortals

Dashing across the screen in all its bloody, gilded glory, the awesome and beautiful Immortals marks an all-win scenario.

As mythic spectacles go, it beats "Clash Of The Titans," particularly in the areas of intimidating villainy and actual Titan-clashing. Nonetheless, it isn't any smarter than its inspirations, just prettier.

The filmmaker's work is infinitely more exhilarating when he's relieved of the need to be in any way serious. He should play dumb more often.

Given something as simple as Theseus's rousing prebattle speech, maximalist Singh is helpless, but when he gets whole armies in on the act, you've got something to behold.

Navigating the film's mounting erotic bloodlust proves tedious, until the show-stopping final battle between gods and Titans in one chamber, Theseus and Hyperion in another, at which point logic melts away completely and the pic's raison d'etre emerges -- namely, to justify staging a fight scene for the ages.

The Immortals is without doubt the best-looking awful movie you will ever see.

Immortals is the latest disaster of post-conversion 3-D, a projected spectacle so dark it is literally hard to see. This is an ugly, burlap sack of a film, stitched with jagged seams and overstuffed with computer-generated chintz, gold-lamé leotards and fetishistic headgear.

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]

This is a decent Greek mythology film with great visuals and solid acting. Has many issues however.

"Immortals" 10 Scale Rating: 6.0 (Decent) ... The Good: As expected, there were several great fight scenes and nifty effects. The gods were also well done and you paid more attention whenever they appeared. Mostly brainless, but solid movie when you're simply in the mood to see people duke it out video game style. The Bad: Hollow story with little imagination. It is two parts "300", one part "Clash of the Titans" and comes across very much like an intended combination of the two. Drags on a little at times and that should never happen during a movie like this.

I confess that I expected more from this film: here, style was valued more than substance. In fact, the film has an intensive visual and stylistic treatment, with the use and abuse of CGI and other visual resources, but it is not able to tell us a good story. Being a film based on classical mythology, and this mythology being such a rich set of interesting stories, such a weakness is, for me, truly unforgivable. The film begins by telling, very sketchily, the way the Olympic gods won and imprisoned the Titans. Then, he takes advantage of this base to create an unreasonable story in which a king, revolted against them, decides to wage war to free the titans, and the gods choose to rely on the figure of Theseus, a human, or demigod, son of Zeus with a human girl, that they think they have everything it takes to fight the rebellion. Directed ineffectively and uncoordinated by Tarsem Singh, the cast does what it can, but has neither the material nor the opportunity to do much. Mickey Rourke is the actor who stands out the most, and who seemed to be effective as a villain and very committed to making his character a detestable figure. John Hurt was also impeccable in a simple cameo. Everything else is a descent to Tartarus: Henry Cavill seemed totally uncomfortable with his character, who is overly sketchy and devoid of personality; Luke Evans was a Zeus stripped of interest and charisma; Freida Pinto appears only because the film needs a beautiful actress in the midst of so much accumulated testosterone. Where Director Singh really bet strongly was on visual style and production values, and nothing like a grand and expensive package to cover the void of content in this film. Its cinematography, strongly stylized and artificial, reminds us of some graphic novels or comic books: the CGI was in charge of providing us with vibrant colors, out-of-the-box sets and a certain dreamlike feeling. The costumes, quite exaggerated, align very well with this aesthetic and the action sequences, perhaps more sparse than we might expect, were exaggerated and blistered as far as possible. Everything would be acceptable with a good story behind it, but it didn't happen here.

This movie could have been great.... But the pacing was soooo slowwwwwww..... Mickey Rourke was terrible. The only good thing about this movie was the 3D. Henry Cavill was ok in this. But the action scenes were so fake looking. Don't get me wrong I love 300 and Spartacus but it just didn't work here.