Immortals
Relativity Media | Release Date: November 11, 2011 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 23 Critic Reviews
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
88
Slant MagazineR. Kurt OsenlundNov 11, 2011
Dashing across the screen in all its bloody, gilded glory, the awesome and beautiful Immortals marks an all-win scenario. Read full review
80
Boxoffice MagazineTodd GilchristNov 10, 2011
Spectacle and spectacular are often confused for one another in stories of epic adventure, but Immortals is the rare film where they are one and the same. Read full review
75
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliNov 13, 2011
The film is as faithful to Greek mythology as Thor is to tales of the Norse Gods, but it ultimately doesn't matter. Tarsem's goal is to give viewers an experience a little different from the norm and, to that end, he succeeds. The "wow!" factor is in full evidence. Read full review
75
Entertainment WeeklyAdam MarkovitzNov 11, 2011
What saves Immortals as a moviegoing experience is the exuberant, kid-in-a-candy-store virtuosity of its director, former music-video wunderkind Tarsem Singh (The Cell). Read full review
67
The A.V. ClubTasha RobinsonNov 12, 2011
As mythic spectacles go, it beats "Clash Of The Titans," particularly in the areas of intimidating villainy and actual Titan-clashing. Nonetheless, it isn't any smarter than its inspirations, just prettier. Read full review
63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick GroenNov 10, 2011
Thrills are in short supply, but so are annoyances. This is a maintenance-free ride. Read full review
60
EmpireHelen O'HaraNov 11, 2011
It won't do anything to win over those not already partial to Tarsem's style, but it has more than enough blood, guts and glamour to satisfy – and Cavill looks like a superman. Read full review
60
Time OutKeith UhlichNov 11, 2011
The filmmaker's work is infinitely more exhilarating when he's relieved of the need to be in any way serious. He should play dumb more often. Read full review
60
MovielineAlison WillmoreNov 11, 2011
Despite this new expansion in scale, Immortals lacks the inexorable forward momentum of its role model "300," as well as that movie's audacious, gleeful fascism and oblivious, accidental homoeroticism. Read full review
60
New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNov 10, 2011
A popcorn movie has one goal, and that's to entertain. Immortals meets this criteria handily, and serves as a splendid spectacle besides. Read full review
50
TimeRichard CorlissNov 12, 2011
The pity is that Tarsem's intelligence doesn't connect his cinematic eye to his narrative mind. The director's visual gift is like a brilliant retina, detached. Read full review
50
Village VoiceNick PinkertonNov 12, 2011
Given something as simple as Theseus's rousing prebattle speech, maximalist Singh is helpless, but when he gets whole armies in on the act, you've got something to behold. Read full review
50
New York PostKyle SmithNov 11, 2011
If it's violence ye seek, and violently confused storytelling, look ye no further. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesBetsy SharkeyNov 10, 2011
I realize that making Immortals immortal was way too much to ask, but frankly, just a shade more plausible, not to mention pleasurable, would have been nice. Read full review
50
USA TodayScott BowlesNov 10, 2011
What undercuts sharper than Poseidon's trident is a script that sees its characters as cardboard, not flesh and blood. For a film meant to be spectacle over substance, it's not a fatal blow. But it is a mortal wound. Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyNov 10, 2011
Immortals is not only entirely without humor, but is dominated by a lot of huffing and puffing, thunderous self-importance and windy Socratic quotations about the immortality and divinity of men's souls. You just have to roll your eyes after a while. Read full review
40
VarietyPeter DebrugeNov 10, 2011
Navigating the film's mounting erotic bloodlust proves tedious, until the show-stopping final battle between gods and Titans in one chamber, Theseus and Hyperion in another, at which point logic melts away completely and the pic's raison d'etre emerges -- namely, to justify staging a fight scene for the ages. Read full review
38
Washington PostMark JenkinsNov 12, 2011
The movie's self-importance is further inflated by the usual pseudo-Wagnerian score and occasional narration by John Hurt. Read full review
38
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertNov 11, 2011
The Immortals is without doubt the best-looking awful movie you will ever see. Read full review
38
Orlando SentinelRoger MooreNov 10, 2011
The film manages one grand "300″ moment, Cavill rallying troops for battle, doing his best Gerard Butler. But the lack of humor, the confusing, stumbling story and limited color palette blunt the film's 3D slo-mo shots of heads exploding and torsos torn asunder by the sword. Read full review
30
Austin ChronicleKimberley JonesNov 16, 2011
The Greek myths, of course, will endure. The same cannot be said for Singh's silly, self-serious, instantly forgettable, and inaptly named Immortals. Read full review
30
Chicago ReaderJ.R. JonesNov 11, 2011
This never rises above the level of a plodding sword-and-sandal adventure, peopled with chiseled young beauties and bored industry hacks. Singh is a talented and eccentric visual artist with no creative future in the movie business. Read full review
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The New York TimesPaul BrunickNov 10, 2011
Immortals is the latest disaster of post-conversion 3-D, a projected spectacle so dark it is literally hard to see. This is an ugly, burlap sack of a film, stitched with jagged seams and overstuffed with computer-generated chintz, gold-lamé leotards and fetishistic headgear. Read full review
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