Would being immortal be a blessing or a curse? This is where I would usually say watch Immortals to find out, but no character in the film is actually immortal, so I guess you’ll have to speculate and imagine an answer for yourself. The name of the film is not totally misleading, though, since they spend a lot of screen time discussing the immortality of man’s soul. The bright side to all this nihilistic theism is that you can expect a lot of characters to die in the film!
Theseus (Henry Cavill) was chosen by Zeus (Luke Evans) to protect his homeland from the evil King Hyperion (Mickey Rourke), who is in search of the Empirus Bow so that he can release the Titans and declare war on all of humanity. How’s that for summing up the plot in one sentence!
Immortals was very action heavy at the end of the film, and not so much in the beginning. There were little skirmishes throughout but a bulk of the early screen time was devoted to story development with only a small emphasis on action. The last action sequence more than makes up for some of the early slowness through its brilliant choreography and direction. There’s a wonderful clarity to the chaos in the form of moments of slow-motion to really let you see the nitty gritty details. One action scene I really liked involved Zeus beating down some Titans, moving at regular speed the entire time but every time he killed a Titan they would lapse into slow-motion so that the blood and body parts are slowly flying everywhere while Zeus is still killing others. It was a nice touch on what could have been a regular old bloody action scene.
Most of the story was run of the mill, predictable story with a few minor surprises. Overall, it was a decent enough action movie. The end fight scene is definitely worth a watch.
Action Rating: 3 ½ mortal immortals, out of 5.
