Directed by: Enki Bilal

Starring: Charlotte Rampling, Linda Hardy, Thomas Kretschmann

In the same year that action spectacles entirely centered around CGI like Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, a little-seen sci-fi flick made the rounds on the straight-to-video scene. Immortal centers around an immortal woman (played by Linda Hardy) who returns to an earth around 100 years into the future, alongside meeting an older woman (Charlotte Rampling) and a man (Thomas Kretschmann) who also has the power of a god inside him. It's safe to say this is the indie version of the Milla Jovovich flick The Fifth Element. However, it is also duller than that said flick. Whereas The Fifth Element had clear enemies and heroes, we see a murky plot that doesn't seem to give us much of what is going on. It seems that they are trying to create opaque and different characters much like an indie film, but the strange setting doesn't call for it. The audience wants to find something to sympathize with, but never really can. On the up side, it does look amazing especially considering the fact that this film couldn't possibly have cost very much to make (Amazon reportedly puts the budget down as $22 million). Still, there's too much style and strangeness and there's not enough for anyone to really want to dig in further.