This French made but English language sci-fi feature is certainly one of the most unusual films I've seen in recent months and that is really saying something.For a start the story regards a futuristic world full of folks genetically modified while above them sits a floating pyramid full of Egyptian gods......for some reason!? It tells the story of a girl wanting to be human, not knowing exactly what she is but being targeted from all sides each person with their own agenda including a frisky Egyptian god.The movie in many respects looks and reminded me of the television series Farscape (1999) but one thing sets it apart and it's one of the most damaging parts of the film.Live action is merged with animation and by that I don't merely mean the sfx I mean half the characters are animated and animated poorly. The animation is that cheap horrible style you often see in kids cartoons and side by side with live action actors looked ridiculous! The premise of Immortal is solid and the cast were better than I expected but Roger Rabbit did a better job of merging live action and cartoon and that was back in the 1980's! Plus that actually explained why it was full of cartoons, this just looked terrible.If you can get past this (Which I couldn't) you can do worse, but for me personally it made the film look shoddy.The Good: The concept The cast The Bad: Poor animation Holes in plotThings I learnt from this movie: Someone actually thought merging live action and poor cgi animation was a good idea Egyptian Gods are allergic to clothes In the future all women will glue their hair to their heads

This movie makes no sense at any point, and very little is ever explained. People are rating it high "just to counterbalance" the low ratings it received from other people, and so I must add my opinion that this movie was a waste of time. I am confused, slightly disgusted by the dialogue, unimpressed with the effects, and left completely disappointed by the lack of a storyline. The mix of effects I could follow (CGI + real people), and the basis of the future civilization was easy enough to pick up, but the story never went anywhere, and it was entirely fruitless throughout. Please do not waste your time as well.

So much hate for this work of art! Yikes! The saga of Nikopol and the Immortals ran for a long time in Heavy Metal magazine. I think it came over from the original Metal Hurlant from France. This was a different time. The music was different. The people were different. Our sense of art was different. Many artists and musicians loved to read Heavy Metal/Metal Hurlant back then. It was a sort of comic book for intellectuals. Remember most of us had come out of the world of the 60s and into the 70s. Our sense of things was much different than today. Back then art --especially graphic art--was vital to us. Now, perhaps, its the internet. Then it was still the days of print. We read books copiously. We lived for books. We read graphic art much the same. It was important to us. So, if you like, this Nikopol thing is.. nostalgia? Nostalgia for a time when poetry still existed? A time before the human spirit was crushed and degraded into the withered corrupted thing it is today? Or not. Have it your own way.

I was in two minds about this movie. Should I just call it crap or not. In the end I decided that it does not really deserve a crap rating and it was actually mildly entertaining although with an emphasis on mildly.This is indeed a weird and bizarre movie. We do not really get any explanation or background story in the beginning. It just starts with a rather gray and depressing, as well as weird and bizarre, New York city in 2095. Most of the people seem to be medically and/or genetically modified, mutants or downright aliens. A pyramid which is shown to hold ancient Egyptian gods are hovering over the city. The film blurb appears to be misleading though since Earth is hardly occupied but rather these gods just seems to be on a visit to settle some of their affairs.We are not really given any explanation as to what follows either or why other than that one of the gods, Horus, is condemned to death and is on a quest to procreate with one of the few women that can mate with a god before his allotted time is up. This is a film where there is little meaning in asking any questions and the only thing you can do is to let yourself be taken through the scenes and enjoy the imagery. This is where the enjoyment of this film lays, in the scenery of future New York, the bizarre creatures and the bizarre plot. The special effects are nothing fantastic but enough to keep up the interest in the movie. The future New York is a mixture of old and new styles and technology. The persons are a mixture between live actors and Final Fantasy like CGI creations. Did I mention that it is all very weird and bizarre? It is certainly a very "artistic" movie.In the end I did not feel it was a wasted evening but it is not exactly a film that will end up on any of my top lists either. Interesting experience and nice to have seen it though and I can understand that some people give it very high ratings. It is not a movie for everyone that is for sure.