By Leah Rozen
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Somewhere, a gods are laughing.
That would be a Greek gods, Zeus and his crew, who contingency be enjoying a unsteadiness and folderol that is "Immortals," a silly, would-be swords-and-sandals epic set in ancient Greece.
The movie, as destined by Indian-born stylemeister Tarsem Singh ("The Cell"), is full of ravishing images and creates effective use of a 3D -- lots of swords, arrows, blood and severed physique tools entrance right during we -- though a characters and story are as lifeless as complicated day molecule board.
"Immortals," clearly anticipating to attract a hordes who embraced "300," is full of shirtless and leather-clad robust men, troops maneuvering and clanging swordplay. This one also embraces a supernatural, in a form of Greek gods, comely oracles, and a sought-after sorcery bow.
The movie's favourite is Theseus (Henry Cavill), a squalid stonemason picked by Zeus to lead his associate mortals in a quarrel to better King Hyperion (Mickey Rourke), a sadistic, power-hungry ruler. Hyperion is a kind of man who orders someone's tongue cut out only for fun.
Helping Theseus along a approach are Phaedra (Freida Pinto), whose authoritative powers capacitate her to commend his drastic potential; Stavros (Stephen Dorff), a snarky liberated slave; and several Greek gods, including Athena (Isabel Lucas).
Those anticipating for a plain education in a classics will be unhappy by "Immortals." The film has about as most to do with tangible Greek mythology as Mickey Mouse cartoons do with a investigate of rodents.
Case in point: In Greek mythology, Athena was a enchantress of wisdom. She was a intelligent cookie, always in on a movement and decision-making. In "Immortals," she's eye candy, a simpering idiot who would be propitious to moment 3 digits on her total SATs.
Cavill, a British actor who will subsequent play Superman in a 2013 reboot, "Man of Steel," shows off a tough physique and claim ability to demeanour determined. Beyond that, there's small he can do to inform a book that seems to have been fabricated simply by cobbling together snatches of screenplays from progressing films such as "300," "Clash of a Titans," "Troy," etc.
Rourke, a prolonged approach from "The Wrestler" here, hams it adult as Hyperion, strutting about and purring with cocksure joviality as he presides over nonetheless another bloody violence or mutilation.
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