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the computer animation is extremely uneven; sometimes impressing, sometimes appalling. the story is hard to understand and has some annoying plot holes, but is generally well recieved and interesting. i cant say anything either bad or good about the acting.

What the living shit. Apparently the three comic sets describe it in more detail.

Terrible CGI, and some of the CGI-actors could easily have been replaced by real ones. The story has very little of the atmosphere from the books, although some scenes have some atmosphere wort speaking of.

Really, don't release a movie if your primary computer graphics look like PlayStation2 in-game cinemas. I mean, the ones rendered with the game's own graphic engine. Also, the plot is all over the place, the characters are all unlikeable, and by the end you wish the universe would just die.

Weird French combination of live action and cheap CGI presents some cool ideas, but needed a better script to help convey them. Still unusual enough to be worth checking out.

Hey, if no one else will like it, I will.

Unconventional noir sci-fi half animation half regular movie. Similar to Sin City but a shelf lower. Very uneven, sometimes animation looks like taken from Tomb Raider 2. Nevertheless, captivating.

Quite interesting and well made movie, especially considering a rather mid-range to small budget. The use of many technologies is good and creates a good futuristic atmosphere. If you are not a true sci-fi fan you probably won't enjoy it as much.

It's a shame that Bilal -- who is an utterly brilliant comic creator -- didn't just do the book instead of turning it into this. The graphic novel was one of the very best things ever done in the form; the movie is admittedly half-baked, but not without interest. I'd love to see his other films get North American home video releases.

Apparently the "director"--using the term loosely--is big in the comic book world. Which makes perfect sense, since this is essentially a very dark, hyper-detailed comic book for adults (adults without much intellectual rigor, that is) made into a feature-length movie.

The graphic novel by Enki Bilal on which this movie is based is one of the best graphic novels that exist. Sadly, they decided using the most awful CGI I've seen in a long time was a good idea. Watching vomit tumble around in a washing machine sounds more appealing than rewatching those CGI scenes. Luckily, the non-CGI parts are great, the plot is confusing but interesting, and I enjoyed it overall.

I wish there was another 30 minutes of story in Immortel to flush out the blind spots. I also wish they had used real actors for everyone instead of the CG characters. Had both of these happened, this would definitely rate 10. Both the pacing and most especially the CG characters were bad decisions which hurt the movie. But even having these detractors, there is enough of Immortel to make this a MUST SEE for any cyberpunk fan (and for god sakes, get the graphic novel if you haven't already!).

This CGI was just camp! That was kind a funny. Why I rate this film so low is because I could not relate to man who has constantly to fight his inner rapist. So its like illustration to Deida: http://www.deida.info/books/way-superior-man

Why do I love this movie

Occasionally pretty but mostly dull. There's the basis of an interesting story in here somewhere but the film doesn't seem interested in telling it. Visually the city looks amazing, but it's inhabited by an odd mix of real actors and terrifyingly bad CGI humans. The contrast is so jarring that it will annoy you each and every time, and pull you right out of any sense of immersion you might have had in the world. Blue alien girl is pretty, but that's really the only good thing in this.

A mess. You don't often hear about post-millenial releases looking outright dated, but Immortel has aged quickly and terribly; the CGI characters are embarrassing to look at. There's not a ton going on in terms of story, and what little does happen is either laughable, incomprehensible or underwhelming due to a complete lack of build up. Could have been pretty cool if everything about it wasn't kind of awful. Well, except for Linda Hardy, who succeeds in being purdy.

Quite interesting world one's introduced to, but story itself lacks depth. Miss France with blue hair, nice to look at. Has a nice concept of symbiosis between real and rendered persons/faces, but the CGI is extremely flaky, low-budget (and most certainly not what's to be expected from French animation companies considering the quality of their amateur short films).

Spacy sci-fi undone by computer-game-cut-scene CGI. Sci-fi Art-film is a genre so frail and dependent on beautiful imagery. This movie didn't have the budget to pull it off.

PV. CGI here is so awful I couldn't stand it and turned it off quite fast.

Egyptian gods appear in NY, one needs a body and a mate. It didn't click. The extraordinary seemed banal.

I constantly grabbed my forehead while watching. Honestly, the only word that could describe "Immortal" would be an annoyed grunt.

Even without having read the graphic novel I can safely say I enjoyed the idea/story. The combination of real actors with CGI was jarring til the end, and pulled me away from the story, but overall it was a decent pseudo-philosophical movie.

At times visually stunning, but overall not as good as I'd hoped

Different Interesting 'original' ??

I don't even know where to begin with this. It was certainly an interesting world that was created but the plot, the characters, the structure, and everything else was all a mess. They built storylines and never finished them. They showed us things and never explained them...Just, what? Also, what a non-thrilling protagonist Thomas Pollard's character is.

Arty but not much of a story. Bilal didn't need that much digitalising. Not for this movie anyway.