Tarsem'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.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 28, 2025

It's handsome, but it looks as if the entire film was shot in a giant spray tanning booth. Kind of fun though.

| Aug 10, 2020

Overall, Immortals is a pretty decent popcorn flick. Will it stand the test of time? Probably not, but the provocative special effects will leave a lasting impression on the audience.

| Original Score: B | Sep 8, 2017

Big, bold and loud, Tarsem Singhs mythological adventure Immortals is a lot of fun.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 27, 2012

If you like blood and guts, with hand-to-hand (or should I say hand-to-spear) combat in video-game-style, you may like this more than I did.

| Dec 2, 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.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 18, 2011

Without any narrative heft, these sights don't last in the mind much longer than they linger on screen. And yet they thrill in short-lived bursts that Singh doles out carefully, keeping pace with the audience's appetite.

| Original Score: B | Nov 18, 2011

When Hyperion says of one character, "His pain has just begun,'' you know exactly how he feels.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 14, 2011

The posters read "From the Producers of 300" and, like Zack Snyder's film, Immortals has little on its mind but conveying the buzz of martial glory.

| Nov 12, 2011

Singh is a talented and eccentric visual artist with no creative future in the movie business.

| Nov 11, 2011

As mythic spectacles go, it beats Clash Of The Titans, particularly in the areas of intimidating villainy and actual Titan-clashing.

| Original Score: B- | Nov 11, 2011

Solid yet hardly sensational, no luxury sedan but a good compact -- fairly efficient in its operation, typically clean in look, and guaranteed to reach its destination with a minimum of fuss.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 11, 2011

As expected, Tarsem Singh delivers big time visually. If only he'd learn to put the same amount of time and energy into honing his script first.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 11, 2011

The movie's landscape is a disappointingly barren digital domain, the same gray cliffs, deserts and seas familiar from 300 and so many game-worlds.

| Nov 11, 2011

There are some striking moments-...bloody battles in which people are speared, beheaded, or pulverized-but there is no overarching visual concept that is worthy of the director's reputation. We might as well be watching Clash of the Titans.

| Nov 11, 2011

Immortals lacks the inexorable forward momentum of its role model 300, as well as that movie's audacious, gleeful fascism and oblivious, accidental homoeroticism.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Nov 11, 2011

The film is handsome enough to recommend on the strength of the visuals alone, which is basically what I'm doing.

| Original Score: B- | Nov 11, 2011

Puffed-up style worthy of trumped-up lore.

| Nov 11, 2011

However indulgent, Tarsem brings art museums to the movies, thrillingly injecting popular fantasy with acute senses of the classic and the avant garde.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 11, 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.

| Nov 11, 2011