‘Immortals’ Review: Big Dumb Blood, Sweat and Beauty (slashfilm)
Immortals is a flagrantly artificial, insanely violent film. ‘Insanely’
violent because minutes at a time pass where the frame is filled with nothing
but graphically split bodies and crushingly brutal combat, with no point
beyond the arresting visual of digital viscera in slow motion. But the
director of Immortals, Tarsem, who also made The Cell and The Fall, is
talented at fooling us into thinking that looking cool is good enough, and so
I drank in the gory violence like spring water at an oasis. The movie is as
dumb as it is gory and pretty. It is, on one hand, imaginative enough to
present a creepy and ugly reworking of the myth of the Minotaur. But on the
other it is so blind to all but the self-indulgence of beautiful design that
all concerns are subverted to the cause of presenting weird and beautiful
things. It sets up potentially provocative conflicts, like the virgin oracle
who really wants to get laid, but will lose her powers if she does, and then
abandons them. Tarsem is a cinematic Prometheus, who steals ideas from others
in order to make them available to everyone, but there’s …
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