Touches You

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

"Immortals" is an action fantasy movie in which we watch a young man who is the leader of an army and fights a ruthless King. His main goal is to find the ultimate weapon and eliminate humanity. Zeus chose this mortal young man to lead this army because he saw at him many things including honor, strength and he thought that this person can be the savior of the people.I have to admit that I expected more from this movie. I thought that it would be an amazing movie with an interesting plot and many twists and unfortunately, it was not. Despite that, I have to say that I liked very much the scene where the priestesses were speaking ancient Greek, the interpretations of Henry Cavill who played as Theseus and Mickey Rourke who played King Hyperion, and the visual effects of it but these were not enough. The direction which was made by Tarsem Singh was average and I believe he did not even reach his true potential. To sum up I believe that "Immortals" is an average movie with no many surprises and also a medium plot. It's not something extraordinary, it has a simple plot with some good interpretations which were made by its cast and an average written script. If you want to watch this movie just don't expect much from it and don't have high expectations or hopes.

I really think the score of this movie is undeserving. It's a good movie with strong and pretty straightforward symbolism, that i guess is hard for the layman to access. The fight scenes we're kinda hit and miss on the one hand spectacular on the other kind of ridiculous. Like i said worth watching once or thrice to fully get the symbolism

I'll give it a 3 for the stunning visuals and the final scene that I liked a lot, but that's pretty much what was good about the movie.I will not waste time describing how the whole story has little to do with Greek mythology, as plenty other reviews have done that already.Instead I'll focus on the fact that you watch this movie expecting some popular characters (or gods) to appear on screen. And you know pretty much how these characters were and what they did. Uh oh! For example bring to mind Thor. You at least imagine a norse looking warrior, quite mascular wielding a hammer. And you expect the Thor you'll watch will be more or less like that. You certainly don't imagine him like a hobbit with hairy feet throwing shurikens at his foes, right?Come to this movie, and see the Greek gods unlike anything you could ever imagine. Zeus, the father of all gods. Typically an older looking god, depicted with his nice full white beard, master of lightnings. Not at all. He is a slender very well shaved blondie, with a shiny golden armor that looks like he borrowed it from some elf like Celeborn or Elrond in Tolkien's LoTR.And how does he do his battles? Swinging his fire chain/whip. (Ghost Rider?)Athena? Her aspis (shield) and her owl were her symbols. Pretty much like Thor's hammer. Nope, she's ninjaing her way through enemies with her two ...sickles.Oh and the Titans are not of titanic proportions (giants) at all. If you remember the goblins from LoTR...well, that.All this has nothing to do with the actors who are doing all they can, but with whoever decided to create mythology from mythology.The quotes are unmemorable and rather used a lot in many movies.To conclude, I found the movie very unimmersive and untrue to the theme it advertises. Please Hollywood, I can understand changing stories a bit, but completely ruining characters is a bit too much.

Tarsem Singh is known for his unique imagery from films like The Cell and the Fall but in my opinion his films themselves are never actually that good, and Immortals is the worst.Where it all falls apart for me was the aesthetics and art direction. I don't understand how they dropped the ball on that. They just took everything from Greek mythology and classical art and threw it right off a cliff.Many positive reviews praise the visuals of this film and while at first I thought it was kind of interesting, by the end I wanted to gouge my eyes out. The greenscreen effects are just so terrible.Half the film takes place on a very uninteresting tiny set on a cliff wall and the CGI is awful. I can't suspend my disbelief when in 2011 your CGI looks this bad. It is just so cheap.300 was much more visually interesting and better shot than Immortals. In 300 most of the film takes place on a cliff side, but it is at least well done and the camera angles aren't as flat.In Immortals you can tell they don't want to move a camera in a certain angle because that would mean a blue screen would have to be filled. Also, most of the film is very static. The formula is action scene, drama scene, but in the drama scenes everything comes to a grinding halt and it just becomes talking heads in a room. Every dialogue scene feels like it is a stage play and people are limited by where they can move.Tarsem once described the film as Caravaggio meets the school of Fight Club. Well I'm sorry, but you must never have seen a Caravaggio painting before or watched Fight Club for that matter.Caravaggio's use of light and his framing composition is not at all emulated in this film. The thing that is most offensive for me is that it feels the creators were just like: "People don't know Greek mythology or anything about Renaissance art so lets just make up whatever the heck we want." One of the worst things in the film was the portrayal of the Gods and the Titans. Firstly, for the most part, Gods are immortal unless you have a weapon that can kill them, there is no way around that. Gods can't kill each other and I don't think the Titans can be killed either that is the whole point of them being imprisoned.Second, the Gods don't wear armor, they don't need to. What the heck were the gods wearing anyway? I don't see any justification for the art design of their costumes, especially the stupid helmets everyone wore. None of the Gods were really identifiable except Zeus and Poseidon who carries around an obvious trident.Third, there are at least twelve gods. The Greek pantheon is just so rich but they made Olympus such a boring looking place where a bunch of shirtless twinks and a girl hang around wearing stupid hats. Olympus should be an amazing place where the Gods hang out with gardens, temples, and great halls, not some non-descript lookout tower at the top of a mountain.Fourth, none of the Gods have much of a personality. Part of the mythology is that all these Gods have different personalities. That is what defines them. Some of them are merciful and want to help man, some are wicked and devious, others are indifferent, but all we get are supermodels in shiny golden armor.Fifth, the Gods aren't an elite martial arts crew, they are the Greek Gods. They have powers beyond any human. They control the seas, the sun, the stars, and the sky. Don't mess around. Zeus doesn't need a sword, he throws lightning bolts. Athena has a bow, not some scythe daggers or whatever. The Greek Gods are extremely powerful in myth but in this film they are reduced to a bunch of kung-fu fighting soldiers.Sixth, the Titans; this is probably the worst offense of the whole film and it is literally a slap in the face by the writer and director to the audience. Everyone knows the Titans are Gods who represent elements, at least a lot of people do. In this film the Titans are...well I don't know what the heck they are. They are like some zombies in a box. I don't get what made them Titans.The plot which in no way resembles the mythology of Theseus founder of Athens. When I saw the movie I didn't really know anything about the Theseus myth, only a vague notion of the Minotaur story, but after watching the film I was just so curious to see if this film had anything to do with real history or mythology and guess what? It doesn't. They ignored everything and for no good reason other than to make a 300/Lord of the Rings clone.I knew that the film was probably going to be bad, but from a director who is praised for his visual style, I expected more than this.