Review: Immortals

Immortals, with all the shining abs and promises of copious amounts of blood will appeal to anyone who has ever uttered the catchphrase, “This is Sparta!”

Directed by Tarsem Singh, Immortals does share many stylistic choices with 300, as well as some producers, and their key audience. That being said, they do at least have different plots. Henry Cavill plays our leading man, Theseus, and he does it well; a good sign of things to come in 2013’s Man of Steel. The same can’t really be said for Micky Rourke’s Hyperion. Rourke plays Hyperion as a wonderfully evil character, but there are times where his dialogue drags, in an almost obvious attempt to cram in some plot to the film.

Why the writers bothered with a plot, we will never know. Immortals feels like it could still impress with just the violence, the wonderfully ridiculous outfits (one of my favourites is Poseidon’s headdress, played by Kellan Lutz) and the many attractive male and females, peasant or god.

The very ending of the film was a stylistic highlight, and many of the promotional posters for the film, as well as 39 seconds into the above trailer show a glimpse of this.

Immortals isn’t something you go to in order to ponder the deeper meanings of the universe; it’s a bit of fun. I’m giving it 2.5/5. Don’t let the rating scare you though; if you are looking for a bit of entertainment than Immortals is definitely worth seeing. The trailers for the film will have you knowing what to expect from it and it would be a surprise if you came out disappointed.

Though if there is anything that Immortals has taught me, it is that all films should have John Hurt cameos. 

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