Somewhere around BCE - the film gives an unexpectedly and unusually precise date, but I am afraid I have forgotten it - Hyperion Mickey Rourke , King of the Heraklion people of Crete, sets himself to warring with the gods of Olympus, looking for the legendary Epirus Bow so that he can release the Titans, ancient enemies of the gods.
Along the way, he attacks a village where there lives a young man named Theseus Henry Cavill , a lowly bastard and peasant, who despite being trained as a great swordsman by a mysterious old man John Hurt is treated with disdain by the local soldiery, primarily the haughty, smug Lysander Joseph Morgan. After Hyperion's army destroys the village, Lysander turns traitor, while Theseus, prodded by the virginal Oracle Phaedra Frieda Pinto escapes from Hyperion's slave mine with the wily thief Stavros Stephen Dorff , and sets himself to finding the Epirus Bow first.
Along the way, he learns that the old man was actually Zeus Luke Evans in disguise, rejuvenating the faith of the young agnostic hero.
It is not, maybe, the greatest of Immortals 's flaws that is makes such a gruesome hash of Greek mythology, but let's not pretend that it's not there. Even , for all its aesthetic depravities, at least managed to do a good job of recounting the Battle of Thermopylae in something basically like the form it has come down through legend. There is the nugget of a great idea hiding deep down inside the film, and that is that the Minotaur is here represented as a man wearing a huge barbed-wire bull mask, the Labyrinth as a catacomb designed to be tricky to escape from to discourage grave-robbing and desecration; it is possible to combine that with Theseus's lack of faith and imagine a different, much better Immortals that fancies itself as the "real" events that inspired the myths.
As it is, in a movie that includes a half-dozen god throughout its running time, the presence of a revisionist Minotaur is just kind of odd, though not terribly distracting in light of the reams and reams of bullshit making up the rest of the plot. As to what is the greatest of the movie's flaws, it's hard to choose from so many candidates. The awful, irritating, shallow characters would certainly qualify; thanks to the flat writing coupled with the dead-eyed performances of the almost-uniformly pretty, young, white cast they're all curiously miscast, but worst-in-show honors go to Kellan Lutz as the ocean god Poseidon , Immortals is filled top-to-bottom with hugely uninteresting, unconvincing people it's surely no accident that the only compelling individuals are the ones played by Rourke and Hurt.
Trevor Morris's score is the worst kind of thunderous, "Feel how serious and epic everything is! The diabolically conventional hero's quest narrative, in which medieval tropes are soldered onto a Greek framework and tarted up with Christological ending, creeps forward so slowly there's only about an hour of actual plot in the minute movie that its blandness is called into the sharpest relief.
And this is where Tarsem Singh comes in. For, even if Immortals has one of the worst screenplays of - I don't think that's too much of an exaggeration - Immortals is also one of the better-looking films of , and if it weren't quite so dependent upon the gold-washed color palette that has come to mean "this is the Ancient World" in so many movies it was codified in its present, exaggerated state by , but I think it was probably kicked off by Gladiator , it would be right up there with the very best of the best.
For that is what Tarsem does: he makes gorgeous tableaux of fantasy objects, spiked with brilliant flourishes of color, and in Immortals he gets to use buckets of CGI and the best 3-D that studio money can buy, and both of those are a great fit for what he does: the CGI because it frees him from the last tattered vestiges of physical reality that kept The Cell and The Fall from going completely nuts, and the 3-D because of the attention it draws to the shape and texture of the sets, which are gorgeous the Titan's prison is one of the best movie locations of the year , and Eiko Ishioka's costumes, which are gorgeous and enthusiastically unconventional the Heraklion's armor , except when they are silly, as in the spiky gold wireframe bits that are stuck on all of the gods.
Now, The Cell and The Fall are not burdened by terribly good screenplays themselves, but the difference is that they're not singularly bad , which is not true of Immortals ; and moreover, they manage in their way to justify the director's overstuffed visions, for both explicitly take place in the realm of imagination.
They all find him insufferable and encourage Fenyx to fulfill the prophecy themself. After all, they have already displayed heroism and the best of the traits the gods represent. With their support, Fenyx decides to follow Ligyron up King's Peak to confront him. There, Fenyx learns why Ligyron wasn't turned to stone with the rest of the crew: he's been working with Typhon. Ligyron has gathered the blood of the gods to make a poison that will kill them once and for all, hoping to take power for himself when they're gone.
He promises to make Fenyx the God of Storytelling, but they refuse and fight him. After the fight, Ligyron admits that he never accomplished the great things he said he did -- all of his feats were just stories he learned to tell from listening to Fenyx. Then, Typhon takes Ligyron away, finally ready to use the poison on the gods.
He leaves behind a portal, which brings Fenyx to the Gates of Tartaros. Upon finding Typhon, the titan offers Fenyx the opportunity to become his champion instead of Ligyron.
They refuse, which Typhon says is in their nature. After all, they ARE half god. Fenyx defeats Typhon, and with his final breath, he reveals the truth: Fenyx is Hermes ' child. Prometheus finishes telling Zeus the story, stating that Fenyx climbs back to the surface to speak to Hermes and finds that everyone who was turned to stone has been restored. However, when the game returns to Zeus and Prometheus, Zeus expresses confusion.
How could Fenyx see the mortals restored when Zeus -- not Typhon -- was the one who turned them to stone? Prometheus reveals that, while most of Fenyx's story was true, he made up the ending to keep Zeus with him. The titan was actually the one responsible for setting everything into motion: he had his brother Atlas create the storm that destroyed Fenyx's ship and instructed him to free Typhon. To honor her, he resurrects her pet Phosphor and even tells her he has created a new species in her honor: the phoenix, which he calls "a majestic bird that burns with the fire of the sun and never gives up.
Of course, Zeus also grants her immortality, which also seems convenient. There's plenty of precedent for that in Greek myth, though.
During all this, it can be easy to forget about Prometheus. He masterminded this entire thing, releasing Typhon and keeping Zeus busy while Fenyx gains strength.
He falls short of taking out the king of the gods. Luckily, Ligyron is still around. Fenyx's brother approaches Prometheus with a key, presumably to let him out. Before he does, Ligyron lets Prometheus know he is going to tell him a story first. Though it wasn't apparent when the game began, Prometheus's story to Zeus was a huge set-up; an attempt to keep Zeus in place in order to eventually destroy him.
Like many stories, Immortals Fenyx Rising is entirely cyclical. It begins and ends in almost identical situations.
This time, however, the audience is in on the joke. Since you've already experienced something like this before, you likely know how things are going to turn out. Or do you? There's still the matter of the prophecy to fulfill, and some news has been shared about the DLC coming down the pipe for Immortals Fenyx Rising.
One of the major themes in all Greek mythology is that you can never avoid your fate. Everyone is bound by at, and no attempt to dodge your destiny even from the gods ever succeeds. Titled A New God , this DLC will reportedly let players "overcome the legendary trials and challenges of the gods of Olympos to change the Greek Pantheon and fulfill your destiny. Maybe he has a change of heart and reverts to his dislikable ways?
If the story of Immortals made anything clear, it's that stories are cyclical. The second is called Myths of the Eastern Realm , and will bring in an entirely new story and pantheon of gods inspired by Chinese mythology. Interestingly, Ash is what a "fenyx" rises from. Don't be surprised if that factors into the story in some way.
Immortals Fenyx Rising Ending Explained. Fenyx learns the truth of her brother. Fenyx confronts Typhon. Prometheus admits the truth. Fenyx's chance to fulfill the prophecy. Fenyx has to rely on family to win. Fenyx's legacy is hidden in her name.
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