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Film review: Immortals

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byAndré Crous, The Prague Post

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Film review: Immortals

 
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Tarsem Singh's depiction of the epic war of the gods is chock-full of the elements one has come to expect from this kind of production: graphic violence, brawny men and a fight for survival in a world that is always visibly digital.

Given the setting of ancient Greece, such savagery is cloaked in morality, and the film opens with a famous quotation attributed to Socrates: "All men's souls are immortal, but only the souls of the righteous are both immortal and divine".

This less-than-subtle hint at the apparently unquestionable glory of the protagonist is repeated at the end of the film, in voiceover, in case we missed the opening text, to emphasise the necessity that Theseus - played by superhero-in-the-making Henry Cavill, who will next appear as yet another incarnation of the Man of Steel - be seen as "righteous".

Unlike his namesake, the mythical demigod, the film's Theseus is a young peasant who has been trained by a mysterious old man, soon revealed as Zeus, to fight on the side of good.

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