JamesG
11-12-2011, 10:24 PM
Movie Reviews: The Immortals
They spent a lot of money on filming The Immortals – reports say $80-100 million — and it shows.
Would that they had invested similar resources in the script and cast, most critics complain.
The film has not garnered one positive review from any major movie critic.
Roger Ebert remarks in the Chicago Sun Times:
“The Immortals is without doubt the best-looking awful movie you will ever see.”
“Characters would turn up for the first time, seem terrifically important, and disappear. If at many moments I had stopped the film and asked anybody around me, ‘who is that, and what are they doing and why?,’ I think they’d have been stuck for an answer.”
SKyle Smith in the New York Post calls the movie:
“a buffet for the retinas and a fast for the mind.”
Betsy Sharky writes in the Los Angeles Times:
“All the unimaginable ways to inflict a world of hurt are imagined here in frightful images that seem to rise right off the screen. What’s missing is the emotion that might have lifted the film and us as well.”
She adds, “It’s all simply stupid.”
Paul Brunick sums up in the New York Times.
“The adolescent violence would be boringly unobjectionable, but its overtones of sexual sadism are crude and creepy.”
The New York Daily News‘s Elizabeth Weitzman:
“It must be said that Immortals is pulpy fun that feels utterly ludicrous whenever it hints at more solemn aspirations, but that’s okay. A popcorn movie has one goal, and that’s to entertain. Immortals meets this criteria handily, and serves as a splendid spectacle besides.”
-IMDB News
They spent a lot of money on filming The Immortals – reports say $80-100 million — and it shows.
Would that they had invested similar resources in the script and cast, most critics complain.
The film has not garnered one positive review from any major movie critic.
Roger Ebert remarks in the Chicago Sun Times:
“The Immortals is without doubt the best-looking awful movie you will ever see.”
“Characters would turn up for the first time, seem terrifically important, and disappear. If at many moments I had stopped the film and asked anybody around me, ‘who is that, and what are they doing and why?,’ I think they’d have been stuck for an answer.”
SKyle Smith in the New York Post calls the movie:
“a buffet for the retinas and a fast for the mind.”
Betsy Sharky writes in the Los Angeles Times:
“All the unimaginable ways to inflict a world of hurt are imagined here in frightful images that seem to rise right off the screen. What’s missing is the emotion that might have lifted the film and us as well.”
She adds, “It’s all simply stupid.”
Paul Brunick sums up in the New York Times.
“The adolescent violence would be boringly unobjectionable, but its overtones of sexual sadism are crude and creepy.”
The New York Daily News‘s Elizabeth Weitzman:
“It must be said that Immortals is pulpy fun that feels utterly ludicrous whenever it hints at more solemn aspirations, but that’s okay. A popcorn movie has one goal, and that’s to entertain. Immortals meets this criteria handily, and serves as a splendid spectacle besides.”
-IMDB News