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Actor: Charlotte Rampling, Frédéric Pierrot, Linda Hardy (II), Thomas Kretschmann, Thomas M. PollardBrand: First Look Pictures
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); French (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 102 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-06-21
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: FIRST LOOK PICTURES
Movie Reviews of Immortal
Movie Review: Multi-layered sci-fi mystery with some great FX
Summary: 5 Stars
Watching Immortal is like reading a comic book. It's that close to the story's original medium, for which the creator of the Nikopol stories should be pleased. At first I found the switching back and forth between scenes of the human actors and scenes with just CGI characters confusing and unsettling and I thought I would write this film off as a waste of time. But I gradually became comfortable with the spectacle, even if the CGI was flawed. Some characters look too cartoonish and horribly fake, but then this was a French production with a limited budget (compared to Hollywood) and the behind the scenes feature explains that film animation is not big in France. All this considered, they don't do a bad job, especially with the cityscapes and flying cars.
The story itself demands viewer attention to piece plot elements together that are not immediately explained, or maybe never explained. This may be one of the great strengths of this movie, the creative refusal to explain everything and have tidy endings. I liked the mystery. It's the year 2095, the setting is New York, and humanity has taken to prolonging life and replacing body parts through cloning and artificial means. A corporation called Eugenics practically runs the city, has its own police force and the power to capture and dispose of people as it wishes. One of its captives is a mysterious young woman named Jill (Miss France Linda Hardy) who has pale white skin and blue tears. Jill also wields destructive power contained only by Eugenics hardware rigged to her head. She is rescued by an interested doctor (Charlotte Rampling) who studies her and puts her through clinical trials and we learn Jill eats like a pig (while remaining exceptionally attractive) and may not be human.
Now free to move about as she pleases, Jill has regular meetings with an even more mysterious John, whose head is completely wrapped in black bandages. He gives more clues that their origins are not of earth, but he is helping her become human. They have a strange connection to an "intrusion," a warp in time and space that has existed for some time in Central Park. New Yorkers are warned not to enter the park and certain death awaits those who do try to sneak in.
Complicating this already convoluted plot, a flying pyramid has appeared over New York City, but nobody is paying much attention. It seems to take a few days for a leading political figure, a corrupt senator, to make a diplomatic mission to the pyramid. But before that happens, we learn the pyramid contains the actual gods of Egyptian legend. They have appeared again because Horus (the god with the hawk's head) has been judged by his fellow gods and is being allowed seven days on earth to fulfill a personal mission before his sentence. He needs to possess a male human host and impregnate a female. Trouble is, he has a hard time finding a man untainted by surgical enhancement. Until he finds the convict Nikopol, accidentally released from 30 years of cryogenic freezing. Nikopol was apparently imprisoned for fighting for the rights of the beings held captive by Eugenics.
Enter a softly-spoken detective who is trying to find a serial killer who is making a big bloody mess out of his victims. The detective himself was messed up from an encounter with a shark-like alien some years back. You start to get the picture how many subplots are in this film!
The CGI works best for the buildings and flying cars, and the impressive shark-like alien, but it falters when it comes to rendering people. Like another reviewer said, CGI still has trouble making skin look authentic. The Egyptian gods also could have been done better, but overall it was a satisfying visual experience. Immortal's triumph is in weaving all its intricate plot threads together, retaining mystery, and leaving you wondering and wanting more, but still satisfying.
Summary of Immortal
Nyc year 2095. A floating pyramid has emerged in the skies above inhabited by ancient egyptian gods. They have cast judgment down upon horus one of their own. Now he must find a human host body to inhabit & search for a mate to continue his own life. Studio: First Look Home Entertain Release Date: 03/24/2005 Run time: 102 minutes Rating: RSimilar DVD Movies
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