Immortals (2011)
Country: US
Technical: col 110m
Director: Tarsem Singh
Cast: Henry Cavill, Mickey Rourke, John Hurt, Stephen Dorff, Freida Pinto, Luke Evans
Synopsis:
While attempting to avenge his mother's death at the hands of the profane Heraklians, an illegitimate commoner named Theseus befriends the Sybilline oracle and helps the Olympians keep the bow of Epirus from falling into the hands of her would-be defiler, King Hyperion.
Review:
Unhistorical is not exactly the word for this follower in the stylistic footsteps of Frank Miller's 300, but the screenplay, which concerns the imprisonment of the Titans under Mount Tartarus, and the deaths of several Olympians in the efforts to keep them so, has tantalising glimpses of orthodoxy, only to flout it completely in the last analysis: Hyperion was himself a Titan, Theseus was pretty high-born (Aegeus and Poseidon, no less) and Phaedra, far from being a Fate, was one of the daughters of Minos of Crete and did not survive her husband. Never mind, it's mostly energetic fun, when its prevailing murkiness does not make the action obscure.
Country: US
Technical: col 110m
Director: Tarsem Singh
Cast: Henry Cavill, Mickey Rourke, John Hurt, Stephen Dorff, Freida Pinto, Luke Evans
Synopsis:
While attempting to avenge his mother's death at the hands of the profane Heraklians, an illegitimate commoner named Theseus befriends the Sybilline oracle and helps the Olympians keep the bow of Epirus from falling into the hands of her would-be defiler, King Hyperion.
Review:
Unhistorical is not exactly the word for this follower in the stylistic footsteps of Frank Miller's 300, but the screenplay, which concerns the imprisonment of the Titans under Mount Tartarus, and the deaths of several Olympians in the efforts to keep them so, has tantalising glimpses of orthodoxy, only to flout it completely in the last analysis: Hyperion was himself a Titan, Theseus was pretty high-born (Aegeus and Poseidon, no less) and Phaedra, far from being a Fate, was one of the daughters of Minos of Crete and did not survive her husband. Never mind, it's mostly energetic fun, when its prevailing murkiness does not make the action obscure.
Country: US
Technical: col 110m
Director: Tarsem Singh
Cast: Henry Cavill, Mickey Rourke, John Hurt, Stephen Dorff, Freida Pinto, Luke Evans
Synopsis:
While attempting to avenge his mother's death at the hands of the profane Heraklians, an illegitimate commoner named Theseus befriends the Sybilline oracle and helps the Olympians keep the bow of Epirus from falling into the hands of her would-be defiler, King Hyperion.
Review:
Unhistorical is not exactly the word for this follower in the stylistic footsteps of Frank Miller's 300, but the screenplay, which concerns the imprisonment of the Titans under Mount Tartarus, and the deaths of several Olympians in the efforts to keep them so, has tantalising glimpses of orthodoxy, only to flout it completely in the last analysis: Hyperion was himself a Titan, Theseus was pretty high-born (Aegeus and Poseidon, no less) and Phaedra, far from being a Fate, was one of the daughters of Minos of Crete and did not survive her husband. Never mind, it's mostly energetic fun, when its prevailing murkiness does not make the action obscure.