Immortals

When Theseus is about to kill King Hyperion, both 'Mickey Rourke' (qv)'s eyes are the same original color.

However, Hyperion's character has his left eye mutilated throughout the film and the eye (surrounded by his scar) looks gray/greenish, until the very last scene.

The olive branch which Hyperion carries switches hands between shots.

He waves it at Theseus and slaps it against his leg with his right hand, and in subsequent shots, it is now in his left hand.

When Theseus and Hyperion are fighting in the temple towards the end, Theseus gains the upper hand and stabs Hyperion in the throat, killing him.

In one scene, Hyperion's mouth and cheeks are drenched in blood.

Right after this shot, he has no trace of blood on his face.

And after this shot, the blood returns.

Hyperion uses the Brazen Bull device as a painful death for his resistors.

However, the film is supposed to take place in the 1100s BC and the Brazen Bull wasn't invented until around 600-500 BC.

Before the final battle, when Thesius is giving his speech to the soldiers, the shield on the ground in front of him keeps disappearing and reappearing, depending on camera angle.

The decoration throughout the film was anachronistic.

The busts and some of the pots were of a style not seen until the late Hellenistic, about a thousand years after the film is set; the painting on the wall near the end is of a style not seen until about 650BC, and then only on pots, since it was made using thin clay slip which turned black during firing, rather than using paint, which a wall-painting would have used.

The film is supposedly set in the bronze age, but the soldiers use a silvery metal, presumably iron or steel, for their weapons and armor.

Iron is also used in braziers.

In the bronze age, braziers or portable fires would have been made from ceramic material.

In one scene, several characters are biting pieces of PC-52 steel reinforcing bars (first used around 1700 AD).

The name Stavros used for a character was not an ancient Greek name.

Stavros is a Christian name.

Stavrós means cross in Greek.

This name is derived from the cross of Jesus.

When people are being evacuated from Theseus village, one of the carts used has modern bicycle wheels, complete with metal spokes (painted black) laced in a cross 3 pattern and chrome plated double flanged hubs.

These would not be seen until the start of the 20th century.

Before the final battle, Theseus vigorously climbs up a rusty metal ladder to a higher part of the defense wall and to give an encouraging speech to his men.

The metal ladder is made from welded steel construction pipes (HSS or hollow structural section).

Structural steels was first used in the 1700's and the process of welding used was first discovered in 1802 AD.

The Oracles appear to talk to each other in Ancient Greek, however in the time period in which the film is set (the 2nd Millenium BC) Achaean (Mycenaean) Greek would have been in use.

This is most identifiable from the use of the word 'Basileus' meaning 'King' by the Oracles, which would have been pronounced 'gwasileus' in Mycenaean Greek.

In one scene, several characters are biting pieces of PC-52 steel reinforcing bars (first used around 1700 AD).

However, this is the prison constructed by the Gods to imprison the Titans.

As a magical construct, it doesn't necessarily conform to any real world materials or follow real world physics.

This may be true, but there was re-bar used throughout the film.

Not just in the presence of the Titans.

As the men of Greece charge through the wall to engage Hyperion's men, just before they meet under the wall, the men already have bloody swords.

Helios is seen getting water from what appears to be a cast-iron pipe that looks to serve as the village water supply.

Quite apart from cast-iron being unknown in the BRONZE Age, closed metal plumbing such as that depicted did not exist until the 19th Century, some 3,000 years after the era the movie is set in.

Almost all the men in the movie are shown wearing trousers, which would not come to exist in the Mediterranean for another 600 years, and which the Ancient Greeks never wore, preferring to opt for loose-fitting, draped clothing (it was not until the late Roman Republic, c.

100BC, that trousers came to be commonly worn in the northern Mediterranean).

King Hyperions men are incorrectly referred to as "Heraklions".

The city of Heraklion was founded in 824AD, 2,000 years after the setting of the movie.

Hyperion and his men should instead be called "Minoans", which was the culture of the time for the region Hyperion is suggested to come from (i.

Crete).

Similarly, the "Hellenics" should be referred to as "Helladics", for the same reasons; "Hellenic" refers to a much later period of Greek history (323BC to 146BC).

When Theseus takes his mother's body into the temple he cuts his right leg and walks in bare feet, but moments later when he's fighting the beast with the barbed wire helmet he has gladiator-style sandals on.

He has no shoes on, on the way in deliberately to leave a trail, although not shown one can infer he had shoes with him as well by the way he followed his foot-trails on the way out as he never ventured into the maze with his mother to honor the gods prior to her death, thus would not have known the way out.

On the morning of the battle, when Hyperion walks to the front of his army set to attack, all his soldiers are wielding their weapons in their left hand, shields on their right.

When the shot switches to the front, all the soldiers have their weapons in their right hand.

When Theseus takes off his breastplate after the explosion when King Hyperion releases the Titans, it clearly flexes as if it is made from soft rubber or vinyl.

When King Hyperion slits Theseus' mother's throat, the cut is wide and blood starts drizzling down.

But after the scene comes back to that moment, after switching from the horrid look from Theseus, there is no visible slit or blood on the mother's throat.

When Theseus gives his impassioned speech at the end, the soldiers repeatedly bang their shields in agreement.

Several of the soldiers are a little too enthusiastic and it can be clearly seen that the silver spray paint covering their shields is tearing off.

One soldier (middle-left) has almost completely stripped the top-left section of his plastic "shield.

" Most of the armaments used in this film are from a long while later.

The apple-core swords used at the end are more Late Roman, not Archaic Greek, and the curved, scimitar-like swords used by the enemy first appeared in Central Asia during the Middle Ages.

The bars holding the titans, seen both in the opening and during the final battle, are clearly modern day reinforcing bars as used on construction sites.

The Epirus Bow is clearly a modern day Olympic style recurve bow.

At the first sigh, one of many cocktails of fake mythology and action movie. fights, revenge, the hero, Henry Cavill in a role who use more his body than his talent, Frieda Pinto as the extraordinary woman, the need of the savior.

Before Cavill dawned the cape, he was in this mythological movie. It's not incredible, but it's got action and pretty people.

Love it ! love it !

Immortals fought for dominance. The winners declared themselves Gods, and the losers were imprisoned in Mount Tartaros.

Immortals is a 2011 fantasy film. It depicts the age of 1228 B.

Gods in Flash Gordon outfits. Lots of characters you could care less about and fighting scenes in the dark.

Tarsem Singh hasn't made too many films but all of them have good to spectacular special effects and cinematography. He also presents unique artistic direction that is incomparable.

My gripe with this movie is the lighting. Irritatingly dark.