IMMORTALS

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The film starts out with an old man (John Hurt) saying how the immortals battled in heaven, and figured out they could kill each other. The winners declared themselves Gods, while the losers were named Titans and imprisoned in Mt. Tartarus.

We then see King Hyperion (Mickey Rourke) shooting an arrow at a large cell. Just as he lets it loose, a voice yells “Hyperion!”
This is a vision that the Oracle, Phaedra (Frieda Pinto), has seen.
We find out that Hyperion is hunting for the Epirus bow. He wants to use the bow to unleash the Titans because he hates the Gods who he prayed to when his family was dying from sickness. He’s ransacking holy places looking for it. He attacks one in order to kidnap the virgin oracle, Phaedra. Along with Phaedra are 3 other woman who pose as decoys and several monks. The women escape and all but one monk is killed. The remaining monk is taken away for torturing to find out where the women went.
Cut to Theseus (Henry Cavill) who lives in a village high on a cliff with his mother, Aethra (Anne Day-Jones). She was raped and gave birth to him; no one would marry her, so she and her son are shunned by the village. Except for an old man, who has trained Theseus in weapons and fighting.


The soldier who was discharged comes up on the two men at the lookout and kills them. Then the soldier goes to Hyperion’s camp and asks to speak to the king. They talk. The soldier wants to join, but Hyperion says that he has to look like him (Hyperion) and has his face sliced (like Hyperion’s). The soldier is led out of the room by a guy in a bull cage-mask (I’ll call him Bull from here on). Bull takes him into the courtyard as Hyperion voices-over saying the man is a coward and his bloodline will end tonight. But to Bull take a mallet to the guy’s privates.
In the same room with Hyperion is the monk who was left alive from the temple Phaedra was at. Hyperion tells him that he will talk, so the monk slices off his own tongue. He’s taken away to the mines.

Theseus, Phaedra and Stavros, use the horses to get to Mt. Tartarus, where the Titans are imprisoned. Theseus finds the captain from his village there and tries to speak with the head guy who refuses to listen about the fact that Hyperion will kill anything in his path. Hyperion uses the bow (the hyena brought it to him) and blasts a hole in the gate. Theseus and the others fight with Hyperion’s army as Hyperion makes his way to the belly of the mountain. Theseus and Stavros go after him, but they arrive just as he fires an arrow (from the vision Phaedra had at the beginning). The blast knocks all three back. Theseus comes to, and Hyperion is not around. Stavros is on the ground by the cell that held the Titans with the Epirus bow in hand. The Titans beat Stavros into a bloody mess (literally). Zeus, Poseidon, Athena and the other two Gods arrive to battle the Titans. Zeus tells Theseus to go find Hyperion, which he does.
During the next scenes, there are three battles going on:

• Gods vs. Titans – The Gods are slaughtering the Titans, but the Titans get the advantage because of the number of them (vs. 5 Gods). The Titans kill Heracles and the other God. They attack Athena and ram her into rebar before cutting her throat (not ear to ear, just in the middle, so I’m not really sure if she died). They attack and are about the kill Poseidon when Zeus climbs on top of the cell and pulls out the handles which turns out to be chains. Poseidon yells for him, "To do it." Zeus pulls the chains which causes the feet of the statues surrounding the inside of the mountain to crumble. With Athena in his arms, Zeus transports away. Poseidon does, as well.
• Hyperion vs. Theseus – Hyperion ends up stabbing Theseus several times. In the end, Theseus stabs Hyperion in the neck killing him, but Theseus succumbs to his wounds and collapses on Hyperion’s body. His body is then seen transported in the same manner the Gods do.
• Hyperion’s army vs. the army Theseus was leading – Both armies flee because the mountain is collapsing (from Zeus pulling the chains). The mountain collapses towards Hyperion’s army, wiping out most of them.

We hear the old man again talking about how the Gods were so grateful to Theseus for what he sacrificed, they gave him a son (remember he and Phaedra slept together). She and her son live in the rebuilt village Theseus grew up in. The boy is looking at a big marble statue that depicts his father’s deeds. He touches it and has a vision. The old man comes up to him and tells him his day will come (implying he’ll be teaching him what he taught his father). We then get an expanded view of the vision: It’s Theseus battling alongside the Gods, and other men like Theseus against the Titans.