Eternals

Eternals

The Eternals are a team of ancient aliens who have been living on Earth in secret for thousands of years. When an unexpected tragedy forces them out of the shadows, they are forced to reunite against mankind’s most ancient enemy, the Deviants.

  • Released: 2021-11-03
  • Runtime: 156 minutes
  • Genre: Action, Fantasy
  • Stars: Gemma Chan, Richard Madden, Kumail Nanjiani, Lia McHugh, Brian Tyree Henry, Lauren Ridloff, Barry Keoghan, Ma Dong-seok, Kit Harington, Salma Hayek, Angelina Jolie, Harish Patel, Gil Birmingham, Haaz Sleiman, Tyler Simmonds, Jashaun St. John, Zain Al Rafeea, Ozer Ercan, Lucia Efstathiou, Brenda Lorena Garcia, Sebastian Senior, Chloe Stannage, Harry Styles, Bill Skarsgård, Esai Daniel Cross, Harry Styles, Alan Scott, Hannah Dodd, Adria Escudero, Sebastián Viveros, Nikkita Chadha, Grahame Fox, Derek Horsham, Jeff Mirza, Ascension Martinez Rubio, Patton Oswalt, David Kaye, Mahershala Ali, Gemma Chan, Richard Madden, Angelina Jolie, Kumail Nanjiani, Barry Keoghan, Lauren Ridloff, Lia McHugh, Brian Tyree Henry, Ma Dong-seok, Salma Hayek, Kit Harington, Harish Patel, David Kaye, Bill Skarsgård, Haaz Sleiman, Esai Daniel Cross, Harry Styles, Patton Oswalt, Alan Scott, Hannah Dodd, Adria Escudero, Sebastián Viveros, Nikkita Chadha, Grahame Fox, Zain Al Rafeea, Alberto Rodriguez, Lucia Efstathiou, Derek Horsham, Jeff Mirza, Ascension Martinez Rubio, Ozer Ercan, Ariadna Vadillo Soto, Orson Rosenberg, Brenda Lorena Garcia, Sebastian Senior, Chloe Stannage, Mahershala Ali
  • Director: Chloé Zhao, Chloé Zhao
 Comments
  • sargon_ii - 23 May 2024
    Plagiarism from Marvel.
    Eternals (2021) 6/10

    Just one more plagiarism from Marvel copying characters from the DC competition, it is clear that Arakis is Superman, Thena is Wonder Woman and she has her female version of Flash now of African descent and with inclusion due to the use of sign language, facing this group of heroes against his version of evil superman (this is no longer new) as in justice league to an alien threat.

    How attached to the comic are the characters, well Sersi and Gilgamesh were not Asian, but well it is a long adaptation to introduce more characters like Starfox and Black Knight to make more movies.
  • rileyyjayy - 17 February 2024
    Actually pretty good. Would of been better as a mini series
    Well for starters I don't really understand all the hate this movie gets, it definitely has its flaws but it doesn't deserve to be rated as low as what I've seen, i like how each eternal is unique and represents the different races of humans instead of them all being American. Awesome loved it. The dead lady tho?? What the hell I understand they would of added that in for the deff community but it makes no sense a celestial would create a superhero that is deff. But still whatever. She was definitely a cool character. Overall I thought this was a great input from marvel and I hope to see them release more and use the eternals more in the mcu!!
  • martimusross - 17 December 2023
    Real Rubbish!
    Eternals

    This movie just had no redeeming features, after a promising start it spiralled down in a self-indulgent mess of CGI madness. The script was beyond confusing, half the actors lacked the ability to act. We really had some bizarre casting decisions and the array of accent made my ears bleed.

    Why was it so long, why didn't we like anyone, why did we not see more of Kit Harrington, the only memorable person. Angelina Jolie's face is so frozen as to resemble a mask, it is freakishly disturbing! The rest of it was so pedestrian!

    The over-arching story melted my mind, some godlike being using the earth as a cocoon and then drawing energy from the humans on the planet in an unending cycle of birth and death.

    Overall I can't this anymore than a 4 outta 10 and hope they don't make anymore as it was real rubbish!
  • nikolaygotousa - 4 December 2022
    So long and not enough fully
    I watched this movie right now and what i what to say. I tried to concentrated on plot of the film, but often i was disoriented by missed video effects, and moved off to main lane. Many of skills, strange damage... i was wanna try to understand powerful each of characters but i couldn't.

    Let's begin to speak about positive moments.at first - great squad of actors. Secondly really good work by animation, effects, montage teams. And so happy to saw Angelina Jolie again she was stunning as usual. The movie make strange feel, all the time i thought about relationships between the characters, but i didn't know what i'm waiting in the end of the movie. In the end i'm surrendered. And else, too hard to look at actors that were filming to Games of Throne, now and forever these guys relates only with Games of Throne, it just my opinion.

    That text was create with google.translate and one guy who stady english.
  • keithfmanaton - 31 October 2022
    Compared to the last Thor movies this is an improvement for the MCU!!
    I actually was relieved they made a movie that had a new cast and back story. It was fine. The acting was better than the last 8 or so Marvel movies, especially those with Spider-Man. I actually liked some of the characters. All the other have become pastiches of themselves. The story had a predictable MCU twist but we all expect that. If they've learnt by this a follow up could be better. Quiet frankly I hope they never make a Thor movie again. The super hero & 'gods' movies genre has been burnt out over the last ten years so this was never going to be received well by 'fans'. The whole market for this type of movie needs a break or a radical re think.
  • adamjohns-42575 - 5 October 2022
    Time immeasurable!
    Eternals (2021) -

    I'd never heard of the Eternals until this was released and having seen this film, I wish that I'd never heard of them at all. Personally, I'd rather they made a hundred good 'Spider-Man' or 'X-Men' films and left the more obscure Marvel characters in the comics so that they could do the existing Marvel Cinematic Universe more justice and in an effective way to keep the interest in it, without just making films for the sake of it or to introduce a character in a scene after the credits.

    Everyone else had their own stories that were worth watching, with hints of what might come later, but this seemed like they were just chucking anything out to introduce something new and to keep the name Marvel on the lips of the audiences.

    It already felt cheaper than any of the other films within the first few minutes, kind of like one of those terrible Syfy channel films with supporting actors from awful soaps and the odd celebrity that had been declassified from A list to K list or lower and it reminded me of the poorer production qualities of 'Xena: Warrior Princess" (1995-2001) or 'Hercules' (1995-9).

    Even though it definitely bore some similarities to 'Inhumans' (2017) it was still so different to what we had seen before and perhaps if it hadn't been a Marvel film, set in the same universe as 'Iron Man' (2008) and 'Captain America' (2011), it might have been good in its own right, but it was so apart from the other stories that it jarred a little bit and was hard to see how it could fit in. It was also very rushed as they tried to introduce a whole new team of people in less than two and a half hours.

    I assumed that we were supposed to realise that the teams names were all altered versions of Roman and Greek mythology and that, because they had been on the planet for so long, they were actually the basis for those myths?

    But as heroes went, they were all just a bit too "Super", like when 'Captain Marvel' (2019) conveniently turned up to save the day in 'Avengers: Endgame' (2019) with all sorts of powers that were just what they needed. And sadly they didn't really know how to use them or even how to work as a team, which meant that they struggled and were not really the strong characters that an audience would want to get behind.

    I couldn't stand the character of Sprite and I felt that the casting of Gilgamesh seemed a little too close to that of 'Wong' from 'Doctor Strange' (2016). I also felt that it would be nice to see Richard Madden, who played 'Ikaris', in a role where he isn't a bad boyfriend, because despite his alleged love for 'Sersi', I thought that he was lusting after Angelina Jolie in her role as 'Thena'.

    I actually did like 'Sersi' played by Gemma Chan and felt that she was leading the whole thing, because I didn't have time to get to know any of the others or their capabilities and she seemed to have the focus.

    Selma Hayek as 'Ajak' was good too, but didn't receive enough screen time, due to the complicated, confusing and at times quite silly storyline.

    The character of Kingo was just daft and an attempt to bring in the same quirky humour from 'Thor: Ragnarok' (2017), which didn't work.

    To start with I enjoyed Kit Harrington as Dane as well, because he seemed to be at least a few degrees away from his other character, Jon Snow from 'Game Of Thrones' (2011-9), but then something happened which made me wonder about the future of his character and whether he could deliver it well.

    In general, I felt that this group could have been portrayed better if they had made this first meeting a TV series instead of a film. They could have quite easily introduced a new character and or their abilities with each episode, as they built up to a final battle at the end of the series and once the characters were established they could have been used throughout their own films going forward, as well as the rest of the Marvel Cinematic and TV Universe, but it felt like this hurried and unpolished film was just a way to set up what will be an updated 'Avengers' cast, introducing characters that we know to join up with them from the comics (Although I only know, because I read it in the encyclopaedia).

    Also, having started off so rushed, the ending seemed to slow right down and became quite dragged out. It was a tad complicated and hard to follow at times too and I'm not sure that all of the time jumping helped to deliver the desired effect.

    By showing the previous issues that they'd had in flashback just before the right moment, when they became relevant it just seemed to explain what was going to happen. It was the equivalent of 'James Bond' being given an exploding watch in one scene and using it straight away. It took away the mystery of when and how things might happen. It became a bit jumbled as a result too.

    And although I appreciate that "Theatre" and in some respects, film, should be blind to skin colour, nationalities, abilities, Etc, it was distracting that they all had such different accents. I didn't believe that they would have accrued them all so differently over time. If I was a Celestial sending a team to earth, they would only have had enough difference to enable them to fit in wherever they were working and would all have had a basic toned voice, but right from the start they had accents that probably weren't even in existence that many years BC.

    It was good that they did have such a variety, if that's what they were trying to achieve, which I assumed was in the hopes of making a point about diversity. However, because I needed subtitles for some of the accents it was just very noticeable.

    I also felt, because it was really quite badly put together and that one or two of the actors were really bad, that the whole exercise seemed to be a waste of some of the good actors that could have been used better in other Marvel films, as new versions of more popular characters or new people that could be introduced on top of those we already know. Gemma Chan would have made an excellent 'Psylocke' and Richard Madden could have been a good 'Banshee' for instance. And actually a few of the secondary characters actors were a bit of an odd choice in the first place.

    I did however, appreciate the LGBT representation. It wasn't much and no fuss was made about it, which is how it should be. I just like to see that it's there.

    I feel that with those few films that have been released since 'Endgame' there has been a need to keep momentum going and as a result they have skipped the final checks that they would have done previously, missing out on a extra filter, realising that the Deviants all looked a bit cartoony and that the soundtrack was oddly quiet. And I think that they rely far too much on CGI, which makes the whole picture seem less real and therefore more difficult to get in to.

    I do have some sympathies with the producers, directors and studios, because you can see that they are trying, but it comes across that they are trying too hard.

    Sadly one of my notes for this review was "They're not going to make another one are they?", because I think they are.

    I can only hope that it is freer to pursue the characters and their journeys having got this awkward and clumsy origin story out of the way.

    539.09/1000.