Immortals: Ugly Clown Stuff !!

Rating: 0/5

‘Immortals’ is one of the ugliest and most unexciting films I’ve come across this year.

To bury humanity deep down, merciless king Hyperion (played by Mickey Rourke) must need a particular weapon and so he is on a run riot to get it. Boulder in his way is but naturally our hero Theseus (played by Henry Cavill). Phaedra (played by Freida Pinto) is a virgin oracle priestess who is supposed to help Hyperion in his wicked ambitions but does exactly opposite. Theseus is not only aided by Phaedra but by God Zeus also, who every time saves him. Special effects and safety of protagonist go hand-in-hand in the film. Whenever our hero is in danger and desires help, Zeus is there with his troop and they fight the enemies in a Mortal Kombat style and triumph. It’s cool to have Zeus by your side every time you are in danger but it brutally kills ‘thrill’ which is not clever. They didn’t understand such simple thing.

Idiocy doesn’t end here. Right in the middle of the film, when they ran out of material they showed neat and clean glimpse of Frieda Pinto’s breasts and also injected one insipid sex scene. We know that spice is necessary in recipe but there is a method to utilize it. 

300 showed us brave Spartans in a somewhat believable way and visuals were stunning in it. ‘Immortals’ transparently copies its action sequences from 300 and bores audience. Each and everything is dim and dull here. Castle build with playing cards by any toddler would look more impressive than Immortals’ set-pieces. I bet. I don’t know what was there in greek mythology but it can’t be as dreadful as portrayed by Tarsem Singh. Masks & costumes wore by characters were so irritating and ludicrous that at one point of time I felt like throwing rotten tomatoes on screen.  

‘Immortals’ was a very painful experience and charm of Henry Cavill is wasted here. I hereby proudly announce that Hatim (TV Series – directed by Amrit Sagar & Shakti Sagar) which used to come on star plus on weekends was much more engaging and amusing than Immortals. Watch that instead.      

I'm happily going with absolute zero out of five for Tarsem Singh's Immortals.