{"id":2544,"date":"2012-03-08T13:03:51","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T21:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cinemastance.com\/?p=2544"},"modified":"2012-03-08T13:03:51","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T21:03:51","slug":"immortals-dvd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/?p=2544","title":{"rendered":"Immortals Available now on Blu-ray\/DVD"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nWas it not Socrates who said?
\n\u201cAll men\u2019s souls are Immortal
\nBut the souls of the Righteous
\nAre Immortal and Divine\u201d<\/p>\n

I guess so for the producers of \u201c300\u201d told me so. And what does that mean, exactly? I know not but judging from the computer generated blood spilt on the green-screen sound stages used to bring the epic, sword-and-sandals film \u201cImmortals\u201d to life, the quote has something to do with going to be with the gods if you smash in enough skulls. <\/p>\n

The Divine here is a mortal named Theseus (Henry Cavill), who has been guided and trained by the mighty Zeus (Luke Evans) so that he may take up arms against the evil King Hyperion (Mickey Rourke) and stop the tyrant from obtaining the Epirus Bow. To drive home just how bad Hyperion is: He has a face scar and smashes the testicles of the guys ON HIS ARMY!!
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\nIn the world of \u201cImmortals,\u201d the gods may only watch mankind\u2019s struggles and must never intervene. This is the Law. Whose law? Who knows? But it makes for a longer movie if the Greek gods remain on Mount Olympus and stay out of it for a while. The gods may only assist if the imprisoned Titans are released but guess what? The wretched King Hyperion wishes to release the Titans to exact revenge for the death of his wife and child. Only our hero Theseus, with the help of virgin oracle named Phaedra (Frido Pinto) who turns out to be rather \u201ceasy\u201d for a virgin oracle, stands in Hyperion\u2019s way. <\/p>\n

\u201cImmortals\u201d is a sort of companion piece to \u201c300\u201d and doesn\u2019t ever try to hide this fact. The action\/violence is presented in much the same manner with the many side-scrolling shots featuring limbs and heads being severed in various degrees of slow motion. This time around it seems that the stakes had to be raised and the blood spills even heavier as some foes are actually smashed into bits. This is a detriment, however, as the effects can get so outlandish that it is impossible to not think that you are merely watching something animated in a computer. <\/p>\n

The look of the film is immaculate, gorgeous at times. This is the touch brought to the project by director Tarsem Singh who has a keen eye for production design that is solely his own. This, matched with the J. Lo mind game psycho flick \u201cThe Cell\u201d and incredible \u201cThe Fall\u201d (one of my favorite films of the last 10 years), displays a singular vision from the director. The costumes, sets, props, locations: All are given a specific feel and detailed shine. It is off putting that \u201cImmortals\u201d pulls so heavily from Zack Snyder\u2019s spin on action that was showcased in \u201c300\u201d. It plays like Speilberg riffing on Kubrick in \u201cA.I\u201d.
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\nThe cast is more than game with the except of Stephen Dorff who plays the thief Starvos. He does nothing wrong but simply doesn\u2019t look the part and is miscast. Cavill is strong leading man as Theseus-chisled chin and all. It\u2019s easy to see why he was tapped to play the new \u201cSuperman\u201d for Zack Snyder. Weird thought: Snyder\u2019s \u201c300\u201d begat \u201cImmortals\u201d which begat Henry Cavill who became Superman for Zack Snyder. Circle of life or Hollywood is incredibly incestuous? <\/p>\n

Blu-ray features include:<\/p>\n

It’s No Myth
\nCaravaggio Meets Fight Club: Tarsem’s Vision
\nAlternate Opening: Young Theseus
\nAlternate Ending: This Is Our Last Embrace
\nAlternate Ending: Theseus Kills Hyperion
\nDeleted Scenes
\nImmortals: Gods & Heroes published by Archaia Entertainment
\nTheatrical Trailer
\nSneak Peek<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Was it not Socrates who said? \u201cAll men\u2019s souls are Immortal But the souls of the Righteous Are Immortal and Divine\u201d I guess so for the producers of \u201c300\u201d told me so. And what does that mean, exactly? I know not but judging from the computer generated blood spilt on the green-screen sound stages used […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[257,3075,9076,9694,12786,13891,19594],"class_list":["post-2544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dvdblu-ray-reviews","tag-257","tag-blu-ray-reviews","tag-henry-cavill","tag-immortals-review","tag-luke-evans","tag-mickey-rourke","tag-tarsem"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}