Immortals
2011 · Directed by Tarsem Singh
Original language: English
- fantasy
- action
- drama
The story
Theseus is a mortal man chosen by Zeus to lead the fight against the ruthless King Hyperion, who is on a rampage across Greece to obtain a weapon that can destroy humanity.
What it’s like
Saturated, painterly frames where every image looks lifted from a Renaissance altarpiece: blood-red togas against burnished gold, deep blues, and stark white marble under a blazing sky, with Tarsem Singh's signature compositions of slow-motion arcs, bodies arranged like sculpture, and wide, dreamlike landscapes that hover between myth and music video. The score swells with brass and choral drones, while the battles land with heavy, crunching impact and sprays of stylised gore that the film's glossy colour grading makes almost decorative. Its vibe is operatic and ornate, a fever-dream of Greek myth that is more pageant than grit. It suits a Saturday-night spectacle watch with friends or a visually indulgent evening when you want to be overwhelmed by colour and set design. Pacing is brisk in the action set-pieces and languid between them, with a dutiful arc of a reluctant hero stepping up to face a tyrant. Violence is frequent and graphic: swordplay, impalements, and bloody beheadings, with some sexual content and nudity in the fantasy scenes. It is not gentle, and its cruelty is stylised rather than gritty. It is for viewers who want mythic grandeur and visual excess over subtlety or realism.
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