I succumbed to wanting to see a stupid action movie and watched Immortals last night. It has Mickey Rourke as a tyrannical Kings who apparently only needs to steamroll one country to unleash "The Titans" back on the world. The Titans were imprisoned by the Gods after the war to start Earth occurred. It butchers and ignores mythology, which bothers me, but this movie wasn't near good enough to run with it's own story so it borrowed from mythology to try to make substance and that really pissed me off. Rourke is alright as a crazed King and there is some decent action scenes. That's the highlight as the rest is pretty much thrown together and baseless. There's a magical bow and arrow that's essentially like a howitzer coming at you, but it runs on magical light arrows that don't make any sense. Theseus (Hero) goes from kicking everyone's ass to getting his ass beat by old man Rourke. Save the few decent action sequences like the God's fighting and a few of Theseus' rampages the film pretty much sucks.
Bottom Line: 3.9 out of 10. Nice to look at visually, but the story, acting, plot, script, etc are pretty crappy. The few decent action scenes save this movie from me really tearing it apart.
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