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Tiresome MCU Fantasy Epic - Eternals review by GI

Another big, brash fantasy epic from the Marvel Universe that boasts the directorial skills and uniqueness of Chloé Zhao but unfortunately despite some flashes of her indie director style she seems to have been restrained by the sheer weight of the MCU machine. The film is entertaining enough for fans and has all the usual CGI set pieces and offers a story that doesn't rely on the usual run of Marvel characters. Devotees of MCU will be able to name the links to some of the other films. The story is based around ancient gods and here they are a race of alien immortals called Eternals who were sent to Earth 7000 years ago by a supreme power to protect humanity against a predatory alien monster species called Deviants. Having defeated them the Eternals are left lingering on Earth until the present day when the Deviants return and the Eternals find they have been misled and have a big battle on their hands. There's the usual punch ups and the Eternals have a variety of somewhat silly powers to fight with. The cast do their best including Gemma Chan, Richard Madden, Salma Hayek, Angelina Jolie and others. The usual end credits sequences (there are two - one right at the very end) signposts the inevitable sequel. I don't know about you but I'm finding these films all a bit tiresome now.

Utter rubbish - Eternals review by si

Complete waste of time & excruciatingly awful. Cheesy derivative garbage. I couldn't take the toe curling bad script,acting & idiotic premise of this waste of time so had to scramble for the OFF/EJect button on my DVD player.

Utterly boring and ridiculous storyline - Eternals review by Fussypot

The storyline jumps back and forth in time and tries to take in as many countries/continents as possible just to say they are not only American, but the story is just daft. There is one smaller childlike person with the most terrible ginger wig ever, who asks why she was made that way and there is never any answer. The reasons for the almost immortal Eternals changes every 5 minutes as they find they have been regularly lied to and brainwashed and their memories taken away. The Celestial beings they work for, supposedly supreme, are essential bullying liars, world killers, murderers and parasites, so who would want to support them? Their premise is that the planets are purely there as eggs so they can produce more of themselves as apparently without them there is no light in the universe. I think the Eternals could do a better job as they are very inventive. The Celestials feed off human energy until they can hatch and then the world, with all its precious flora and fauna - which is never mentioned as apparently only humans matter to the Eternals as well, is destroyed.

The Celestials are the worst made creatures ever, they look like 6 eyed bits of plasticine a child has stuck together with rubble and glue. Considering the powerful special effects which are mostly pretty good, the Celestials are appalling.

The Eternals have lived for 1000s of years and are basically aloof, yet one has been made homosexual, obviously to make sure there is one representative in there.

This film is rated 12, yet it shows men kissing and a naked couple having sex. Sorry, but even if that couple are married neither scene is suitable for 12 year olds!

It should have been rated 15 as there is such a lot of violence as well.

When you discover that the all-powerful also made the Eternals enemies that they are supposed to be protecting humans from, just to keep them busy, the whole thing feels sick, especially when the enemy find out about being duped and also call the Eternals murderers. How these Celestials could make sophisticated spacecraft with their lumpy fingers is beyond me! Each Eternal seems to keep changing sides, are lying to each other and are generally a total mishmash of legends. One has the worst Irish accent ever that keeps mutating into an American one, they swing from controlling humans to protecting them, giving them advanced machinery they are not ready for and snatching it back, and worse.

At the end the montage tries to wrap in many artifacts and mysterious objects from around the world to try and justify with them with this stupid Marvel legend.

I don't mind fantasy for fun but this was dire.

There is obviously a sequel planned but I do not think I will bother to watch it.

A mediocre Marvel - Eternals review by LC

This film isn't entirely without merit - the ambitious cosmic storyline is fairly interesting, and there are some epic visuals at times. The major flaw is that the characters are so dull it's hard to get that invested. Even the moments of irreverant humorous dialogue that are sprinkled throughout feel forced and fall completely flat: half the time this feels like it wants to be a serious, weighty movie, the other half it wants to be a 'Guardians of the Galaxy' style romp - in the end it falls between two stools and ends up being neither. Ultimately, this is just another in the endless converyor-belt run of Marvel movies - just about worth watching to see what elements will be picked up and developed in further films, but on it;s own it's not a particularly satisfying experience.