Contact Us  ‘Immortals’ is an Epic Adventure in Getting It Wrong
[Review]  Here’s everything you need to know about Immortals,
the new movie from director Tarsam Singh that’s (extremely)
loosely based on Thesus, the hero from Greek mythology: At one
point, Zeus gets super mad at Apollo for interfering with the
humans, so he blasts him through a stone wall. It’s built up as
this huge moment for Zeus that shows how dedicated he is to
allowing mankind to forge its own destiny rather than be
shepherded by the gods, and clearly meant to be a big, pivotal
moment for the film.   Sadly, Immortals chose to completely
ignore Theseus’s status as the ancestor to modern-day
Hulkamania, and instead chose to tell a story that I could best
describe as an episode of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys with
a ridiculously huge budget.  Now, that’s not necessarily a bad
thing. In fact, Singh’s over-the-top visual style — the one
thing that actually makes this movie interesting to watch —
takes the best bizarre bits of Hercules and