The Immortal Wars

Did anyone bother to write a script? did they just throw a bunch of out-takes into a computer and add badly filtered graphics... look, whatever, I don't care. If this is the film makers legacy then obviously neither do they. The ONLY reward this piece of dross gave me was allowing me to press STOP.

But in the back of my mind I walk away wondering what Eric Roberts thought when he said yes to this... it's not good.

I really tried to like this film. I really did. It had a few positives that were shining points, But in the end there were so many blatant missteps that couldn't save it. First, the good: Visuals (encompassing VFX, cinematography, etc); The film was beautiful. That's probably the most positive thing it had going for it. The visual effects were great for what the budget was, the camera work was good, although I feel like shots were thrown in just to look cool rather than visually tell a story, the aesthetic of the world was great. The film was a pleasure to look at.

Sound: the sound design was another high point. The different sounds that powers made was enthralling and reeled you in, The music was beautiful and made sense where it did. Something constantly overlooked in indie film but this one did it right.

Concept: The concept is something I could really be interested in if it was done right. A film that's basically set in the X-men universe with a Mortal Kombat meets hunger games competition? Sign me up!

Now for the bad: Script (dialogue/pacing): By far the most glaring issue right away. This was OBVIOUSLY "adapted" from a comic book, and I use the word "adapted" loosely because it feels like the exposition laced dialogue was just ripped from A comic book and not changed to make it more natural or realistic in spoken word. You can tell the actors were struggling to do what they could. As for pacing the film felt, somehow, dragging and rushed all at once. Way too much time spent on things that weren't necessary, way too little time to focus on actual interesting happenings.

Fight scenes: By far some of the worst fight scenes I've ever seen put to film that wasn't done in a pre teen backyard fighting choreography YouTube video. Every single fight with the exception of the fight between the only human characters was sloppy, painfully executed AND choreographed, stiff as drywall, and consistently interrupted LITERALLY mid-fight (as in in the middle of an attack) to exposit just a little more.

Performances: a few of the lead characters did fine with what they were given but some of the people that I've noticed are constantly used in this directors films just shouldn't be. There is an extreme lack of talent among people that seem to have the most lines which is kind of mind blowing. The fact that easily the best performance of the film is given by a character that has less than 4 lines should give you all you need.

Conclusion: I REALLY hope that the production of this film was just a case of no one having the stones to tell the director that some of this stuff just doesn't work out of fear of getting canned rather than everyone involved just being terrible, but the film has very little high points. It's a slog to get through that makes its relatively short length surprising and I hope to whatever higher power there is that the next film addressed the issues of this one, namely getting someone on board to refine the script and take it out of the comic book panel dialogue it's locked into. If not, at least let it have some entertaining fights that don't look like 5 year olds are the ones designing them.

I first looked at the dvd cover and it looked awesome. I then saw the trailer and thought it looked awful. Now that I watched the movie, its an ok movie for it being a confusing, non-story movie.

I dislike movies that don't tell a story or develop characters because I get confused and bored throughout the movie.

Again this movie was ok for a boring movie.

The acting and the girl doing the audio voice were horrible. The effects were good enough for a budget. The costumes were great.

Not a movie I recommend at all.

It's a low budget movie that they didn't even finish. It ends right when it was about to gain momentum it ended. Graphics and storyline were worse than SNES Shaqfu. I imagine the sequel will be even worse. WTF did I watch?

This film would have been great with a better script and more talented actors.

I'm a huge fan of fantasy and dystopian thrillers so this should have been a hit for me. Unfortunately while the world created is interesting, we only get snippets of how they got into this situation and it's only through talking. This could've been expanded a little, along with the back stories of the fighters. I was never really invested in any of the characters as I didn't know any of them.

The dialogue between fighters was unbelievable and there was no chemistry between any of them. It was all rather wooden.

Likewise there were a few good fight scenes but the majority looked more like dancing than fighting.

The dress was almost as laughable as the script.

I really wanted to like this but it was a huge no. I'm embarrassed I made it to the end.