Immortals (2011)

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Without any narrative heft, these sights don't last in the mind much longer than they linger on screen. And yet they thrill in short-lived bursts that Singh doles out carefully, keeping pace with the audience's appetite.

November 18, 2011 Full Review

Adam Markovitz

Entertainment Weekly

Top Critic

When Hyperion says of one character, "His pain has just begun,'' you know exactly how he feels.

November 14, 2011 Full Review | Comments (27)

Ty Burr

Boston Globe

Top Critic

The same hyperstylized, comic book-come-to-life approach that created an invigorating experience for viewers of 300 elevates Immortals above the level of a Clash of the Titans knock-off.

November 13, 2011 Full Review | Comments (10)

James Berardinelli

ReelViews

Top Critic

The posters read "From the Producers of 300" and, like Zack Snyder's film, Immortals has little on its mind but conveying the buzz of martial glory.

November 12, 2011 Full Review | Comments (9)

Nick Pinkerton

Village Voice

Top Critic

This monumental tale of warring gods and men is a beautiful, dead thing, bereft of organic or kinetic life.

November 11, 2011 Full Review | Comments (17)

Kathleen Murphy

MSN Movies

Top Critic

Singh is a talented and eccentric visual artist with no creative future in the movie business.

November 11, 2011 Full Review | Comments (13)

J. R. Jones

Chicago Reader

Top Critic

Grisly, gross, messy - and I'm not just talking about Mickey Rourke's table manners

December 28, 2012 Full Review

Roger Moore

McClatchy-Tribune News Service

Tarsem Singh's imaginative visuals are the main draw of Immortals - which is subsequently held together by a mostly adequate story of gods, titans, and humanity.

October 2, 2012 Full Review

Ben Kendrick

ScreenRant

You can't take your eyes off it - it's like watching the butchest float on the Gay Pride parade crash in super slow-motion HD.

September 28, 2012 Full Review

Ali Gray

TheShiznit.co.uk

Looks aren't everything, but you'd never guess that by watching Immortals. With a solid cast and breathtaking fight scenes, you almost forget that there's not much of a story.

September 22, 2012 Full Review

Billy Tatum

We Got This Covered

"Immortals" is indeed good-looking and is even entertaining for a few brief sequences, but that's not nearly enough to begin making up for its multiple flaws elsewhere.

September 18, 2012 Full Review

Jeff Beck

Examiner.com

...a distressingly cynical cash-grab that seems to exist only to profit from the success of its like-minded predecessors.

July 5, 2012 Full Review

David Nusair

Reel Film Reviews

Beyond the simple idea that Gods intervened in humans' lives on a regular basis, there isn't a lot of interesting stuff to chew on in the script. It moves from one amazingly framed camera setup to the next with no forward motion or feeling of consequence.

April 10, 2012 Full Review

Eric Melin

Scene-Stealers.com

an almost overwhelming aesthetic experience in which conventional storytelling and narrative logic frequently take a backseat to pure sensation

March 14, 2012 Full Review

James Kendrick

Q Network Film Desk

Fans of mythic adventure may want to see for themselves, but the storytelling is too disjointed for it to measure up to a film like "300" or "Troy."

March 10, 2012 Full Review | Comment (1)

James Plath

Movie Metropolis

Costume designer Eiko Ishioka drapes the gods in dinky gold lamé outfits and outlandish headgear - Daniel Sharman's Aires sports a helmet spiked with swords and Kellan Lutz's Poseidon appears to be wearing a rather whimsical fascinator.

March 8, 2012 Full Review

Jason Best

Movie Talk

Weakly plotted and emotionally flat, but visually alluring, memorable and sometimes very entertaining.

March 5, 2012 Full Review

R. L. Shaffer

IGN DVD

There's some mildly diverting action and a lingering shot of Freida Pinto's lovely bum, but even lovely bums must occasionally take a horrendous dump, and that's what Immortals is.

March 2, 2012 Full Review | Comments (3)

Rob Power

SFX Magazine

It seems as if there's no way at all to make these kinds of gladiator/barbarian/centurion battle movies any good.

January 30, 2012 Full Review

Jeffrey M. Anderson

Common Sense Media

The raw movie majesty alone makes this worth a view on the big screen, but as an adventure epic, it also works well enough.

January 11, 2012 Full Review

Michael Dequina

TheMovieReport.com

A hodge-podge of nonsense that is just really there to stitch together cool fight scenes and sets.

December 7, 2011 Full Review

Steve Newall

Flicks.co.nz

Laws mean little to these immortals once "considered incapable of death," at least until they "discover they can kill each other." Likewise, they discover they can't not interfere with men.

December 7, 2011 Full Review

Cynthia Fuchs

PopMatters

• 1. Theseus: They are cowards, they hide behind masks.
  – Submitted by Connor N (6 months ago)
• 1. Phaedra: To those whom much is given, much is lost.
  – Submitted by Typhon Q (8 months ago)
• 1. Theseus: This is your last embrace, Hyperion. Look at me. Look at me! I'm the last thing you will ever see... Witness hell.
  – Submitted by Augustine S (11 months ago)
• 1. Old Man: [voice over] When this world was still young, long before man or beast roamed these lands, there was a war in the heavens. Immortals, once thoughts incapable of death, discovered they had the power to kill one another. Lost in this war was a weapon of unimaginable power, the Epirus bow. The victors declared themselves Gods, while the vanquished were renamed Titans and forever imprisoned within the bowels of Mount Tartarus. Eons passed, mankind flourished and the great war receded from memory. But the evil that once was has reemerged.
  – Submitted by Lorenzo V (12 months ago)
• 1. Aethra: I wish I hadnt of had that.
  – Submitted by Jacqueline N (13 months ago)
• 1. Helios: The sea has always been an unpredictable domain.
  – Submitted by Jevon J (14 months ago)

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