I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

best movie i've ever seen.

Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

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

I recently came across this film by accident. When I was a kid I was completely entranced by the graphic novels by Enki Bilal, so I was exited by the prospect of a movie based on the Nikopol Trilogy. I didn't get far into "Immortal" before I started to get really disappointed and disillusioned. The film tries to mix CGI that would be somewhat acceptable in a computer game with live acting-- its not the admittedly poor blend that is the main problem, but the artistic quality of most of the CGI and the often shoddy voice acting. It reminds me of the Star Wars prequels, which I didn't fancy at all... But "immortal" is far worse. You can't redeem this movie by saying that it is deep, not for children, and so on. In this film, you don't get the story because its poorly told. To be frank, the execution of the script, and perhaps the script itself are a disaster. There's a difference between a botch and something that is inexplicable in an artistic way like "Mulholland Drive" by David Lynch. As a film-maker, Enki Bilal just doesn't have his act together. Watching "Immortal" is a twofold torture, because Bilal is desecrating his own work while at the same time making an extremely poor movie that is mostly boring and sometimes even excruciating to watch. The scenes when the main character of the film is first possessed by Horus are very good, but this somehow makes "Immortal" even worse, because it reminds you of the fact that this film could have been something great. For me, this film was one of those rare ones that actually made me feel a tiny bit worse about life and art in general.

Years ago Enki Bilal wrote and drew a graphical novel La Foire aux immortels, which then became a first part of his Nikopol trilogy. In this tale the ancient Egyptian gods return to earth so that Horus (Thomas M. Pollard) can spend his last days in the world he created. But he has an ulterior motive: he wants to impregnate a blue haired, blue tears weeping woman Jill, who herself isn't aware of what she really is. Jill (Linda Hardy) is a woman, who can reproduce with higher beings.Nikopol (Thomas Kretschmann) is a prisoner convicted into cryofreeze, who escapes because of an accident jettisons his capsule from a prison ship. He looses his leg, but Horus finds Nicopol to be a perfect host from himself, as most of the humans have been genetically altered beyond humanity, so Horus builds him an iron leg in order to be able to uses his body for his own needs.Visually speaking Immortel is interesting looking movie. Most of the characters are CGI and they've been made to look like the original drawings of Bilal. But as the movie is quite old in the age of CGI these computer generated people stand out like a shore thumb when on the screen despite there's no real humans in the same scene. The difference is even more present when there's real actors. But what works relatively well are the futuristic New York landscapes with flying cars and holographic commercials.As a movie Immortel is far more easy to comprehend than the graphical novel it's based on and that isn't a bad thing. Bilal has clearly wanted to make something similar but different from his own work, but sadly enough the end result is a bit of a hit and miss.

As a former Heavy Metal reader and an artist, I was fully entertained by Immortel. The story was good, the unique blending of animation and film footage was expertly executed, with many stunning set pieces interspersed throughout the film. I think this unique sci-film movie deserves better than the ratings many have given it. And I don't give out glowing reviews readily. If I had to compare Immortel with comparably well made ones in the sci film genre, I'd have to mention Rennaisance, Akira and Cowboy Bebop. Forget that these are fully animated, I'm talking about great stories and characters, stylistically designed to provide maximum wow factor. I could cry blue tears to think any viewer could dismiss Immortel as a less than terrific addition to the list of top notch sci film productions, whether animated or not.