Movie Review: Immortals

I finally talked myself into seeing Immortals last night!  I was pretty cool with 300, because I like image detail in movies instead of turning the camera away before the audience sees too much blood.  I figured this movie would have the same kind of detail since it was directed by the same guy.  I was right, but what I can't stand in a movie that claims action from beginning to end are long scenes of dialogue or slow scenes where there's really nothing happening.  I felt like I was watching a History channel original movie about Greek mythology with several bloodygore Youtube videos randomly thrown in. 

There were two overly graphic scenes in the movie; one to introduce Athena, and the other to show an oracle, Phaedra, giving up her gift of seeing into the future, because Theseus persuaded her to feel like it was a curse.  From watching 300, I knew the director would probably lean toward having some of this in the movie, after all it is faily accurate considering the timeline being portrayed, but I didn't know it would be so randomly placed or really even have anything to do with the plot.  It was almost as if Tarsem Singh said, "This is a movie for men; throw in some of that, they'll like that!"  I can go a whole movie without having to see that, and I am a man. 

On the other end, I was reminded of how excited I got after watching the trailers for Clash of the Titans, only to be left sitting in my chair, at the end of the movie, thinking, "wait, wasn't this suppose to be epic? Was that it???"  I wanted more destruction from the Kraken and felt like the gods were too randomly placed in the movie.  There's not much more to say about it, there were so many simmilarities with Immortal's and Clash of the Titan's story lines, they speak for themselves.

Another question that rose in my head was, how did no one in that random cliff dwelling ever think there might be something up with the giant melted rock mound moulded around several of their mortuary chambers, and why did no one accidentaly hit that one fragment of rock to reveal the Epirus bow before? I guess in this case, it would have been too difficult for Theseus to have to go on a journey to find it; the best way to get it into his hands, for at least three seconds before loosing it to Hyperion, is to practically put it right there in the open. 

So to sum Immortals up in one solid description: Immortals is 300 meets Clash of the Titans, inspired by History channel documentaries.  It had a few good names in the acting line-up, but I really wanted to see more out of them.  I won't remember much about them in a couple days.  I would normally give a movie like this no more than a 6 out of 10, but due to the detail in the graphics, and somewhat decent 3D works,  I'll squeeze out a 6.5 out of 10 electro-magnetic invisible arrows for the Epirus bow.