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Movie Reviews of Immortal
Movie Review: WOW!!!!
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a visually stunning movie. Sure, the plot is a little confusing and I hate to give the French credit for anything, but you will not be able to take your eyes off the screen. This movie moved me in some cerebral and emotional way and I urge you to see it. I keep playing it over just for the cinematic punch it offers.Movie Review: Immoral
Summary: 4 Stars
Immoral is a furistic Sci Fi tale that will hold the interest of anyone that enjoys the genre. It is a visual feast. The story is a novelty . You will have to watch it again and again in other to be able to weave all the plot thread together. I think it's worth the effort.Movie Review: Riveting
Summary: 4 Stars
I recommend this film for lovers of true science-fiction/futuristic tales-fans.The raw politics of a future society, mixed with a mythological timelessness, pushes one to accept and not querry the viewers conception the films purpose.Movie Review: Great visuals, incredible story, rather poor execution
Summary: 3 Stars
I was just perusing Amazon when this recommendation came upon my screen. The cover alone captivated me. So I took the next step to start reading reviews and found it got fairly decent reviews. I'm a pretty big science fiction buff and the premise sounded hugely unique, that sealed it for me, I had to try it.
So my friends and I sat down to watch this movie and we all agreed that the visualizations were well done. Except for one point... when the film shifted from having real humans to having CG humans and then it shifted back and forth. In a few scenes it was humans interacting with CG characters, but those were few and far between. The change was so sudden that it just felt weird, and we were left wondering why the director thought this was a good idea. Later we theorized that it was probably the people that had some sort of disease that was referenced in the film. However, I would've liked to have gotten more explanation on this. Then we saw the senator and thought maybe it wasn't all for those people. Ultimately... we got confused.
Most of the script is pretty interesting and conceptually it's quite enthralling. The black mark against this film is that they leave a lot of questions out there. Such as why the gods are doing what they do? I realize it's to mate with a female, but what's the point of that? They never really explain the reason for the need... just that they want to do it. It certainly brings up some very interesting parallels to history and the birth of demigods, which are fraught throughout historical writings. It is pretty obvious that the director is into history, especially the religious kind judging by his name. Enki is a Sumerian/Persian deity and "Bilal", I assume, is some perversion of the name Belial, also of Persian origin.
If you pay close attention to the film, you'll follow it on a decent level. But there are parts that you just get lost with. This obviously happens when the gods are speaking Egyptian and there are no words on the screen to tell me the translation unlike in "Stargate." Imagine how lost you would be watching "Stargate" with no translations! That's kind of the effect I walked away with on this film during those scenes.
Overall it's a decent movie. I think the director was a little over ambitious in creating this world. It felt like he tried to cram thousands of years of history into a two hour package and hope that the audience could fill in the gaps logically. I mean some of it was obvious, like the flying car stints, I can definitely figure out they are influenced by films like "The Fifth Element." Only he tried to combine the design with like a 1920's styled vehicle and an electric subway type of design... only all this is in the air. See, that kind of thing I can backtrack. The strange mutants because of a disease were a little harder to figure out, since I really don't have much of a historical reference for mutation other than the atomic bombs being dropped and the accident at Chernobyl. Either way, I think you get my point. The world is too big for people to just figure out on their own. The visuals do make up for this in their own way, because it's a beautifully dark film in its own right. I say give it a chance, but I hardly think it's worth owning as I don't see it to have all that much re-watch value.
Movie Review: Nice Eye Candy, But Incoherent Plot and Direction
Summary: 3 Stars
I bought this DVD on blind faith, based on trailers I had seen and on the cover art. I'm a big SCI-FI fan and also enjoy ancient Egyptian history. I thought, "How can I go wrong?". Although there are some great visuals and plenty of eye candy, the movie suffers from an incoherent plot and bad direction. There are several interesting concepts and ideas that are introduced but are never fully explored or developed. An Egyptian God, Horus is on a mission to impregnate a blue haired woman. But there is no explanation of what his motives are for doing this. The blue haired woman named Jill has amnesia and doesn't remember much or seem to have any goals or motives. Although I suppose she is the main character and is pretty to look at, I ultimately found her uninteresting because she doesn't do much. Nikopol played by Thomas Kretschmann seemed to have a more interesting background as it is said he is the one that caused the war and chaos on the planet and was then cryogenically frozen as punishment. He has some funny interactions with Horus, but they never explain his back story or expand on his character either. He basically becomes a puppet of Horus in order to have intercourse with Jill. When they finally do have sex, they do it under a blanket, so there is not even any gratuitous nudity. There is a subplot about body tissue and cosmetic surgery with people that look like characters from Star Trek Insurrection, but that is never explained. Bizarre things happen in this movie such as Jill going into some tunnel that looks like outer space to talk with a man covered in black Arabian style cloths. The main character Nikopol appears with two metal dome things on his head that were not there in the previous shot and which continue to be there for the rest of the film. People enter some dimensional riff that just exists in the middle of nowhere and that people fall into, but is not explained. It all gets very muddy and you keep watching hoping it will be one of the cool movies where all the pieces of the puzzle will come together and make sense at the end of the film. However, the director fails to tie all the ideas together or give any sense of purpose or resolution to the story. At the end of the movie, I found myself thinking, "Is that it?". The other problem is that I think CGI should be used for backgrounds, cityscapes, etc. but not to replace real actors. This movie was chock full of Final Fantasy type CGI characters that looked kind of tacky and their lips were out of sync with the dialog. Even Horus looks like he is carved out of stone. I think his character would have looked better if it was a bodybuilder with a bird mask or something. I watched the bonus features and so I know it took them several years to make this film and that it was hard work doing all the computer graphics, so I do not want to criticize it too much. I think the potential is there to a make a sequel and if it had a stronger story and used more real actors, it would be a stronger follow up. But I'd say this is a rental and not something to pay $22 for.