Immortals
Immortals is filmed in 3D with all the intensity and ripped abdomens of 300. King Hyperion didn’t get much papyrus several centuries BC but here the terrible Titan is played with much relish by Mickey Rourke. He’s bent on revenge against the Olympians which he plans to get by declaring war on humanity. Problem is he needs the mighty Epirus Bow in order to release the rest of the Titans that Zeus (Luke Evans) and Athena (Isabel Lucas) entombed for eternity in Tartaros. That bow happens to come into the possession of outcast love child Thesius (Henry Cowell) who becomes the reluctant leader of humanity in the battle against Hyperion and his mutilated minions (including a very wiry Minotaur). Meantime Thesius’ mythological wife Phaedra (Slumdog hottie Freda Pinto) prior to their hook up has a heretofore career bump as the Oracle of Delphi. Her visions include Thesius and Hyperion as BFFs (Bow Friends Forever) which lets face it is not a good look, so to speak, for the future of humankind – especially since Olympus is forbidden from helping. Immortals plays fast and loose with the Greek mythology passed down from antiquity but then again didn’t Euripides? Anyway who cares it looks fantastic!