-> ''Humans, mutants, of New York or elsewhere, say no to synthetic flesh and virtual brain. Say no to Eugenics.''
--> -- '''Spirit of Nikopol'''

''Immortal'' (original French title: ''Immortel (ad vitam)'') is a 2004 ScienceFantasy film directed by Creator/EnkiBilal, loosely based on his ''Nikopol Trilogy'' series of comic books (specifically, the albums "The Carnival of Immortals" and "The Woman Trap").

It is the year 2095, New York City is a dystopian metropolis ruled by corrupt politicians controlled by the powerful Eugenics Corporation. The population consists of mutants, aliens and cybernetically/genetically enchanced humans, who are segregated by levels (with the humans on top).

One day, a mysterious hovering pyramid appears over the cityscape, a vessel for the Egyptian gods who are about to condemn their fellow, Horus, to eternal prison for rebellion. Before his sentence is carried out, he is given seven days to look upon his creation.

Meanwhile, equally strange events unfold in the city: Central Park is encased by a barrier of unknown origin dubbed "The Intrusion Zone", as none can enter it yet strange human-like individuals constantly emerge from it - refugees either from alien worlds, or alternate versions of Earth different enough they may as well be aliens; either way, their alien physiologies are of immense interest to the Eugenics Coporation, which constantly collects them for study. One of these refugees is Jill, a blue-haired, white-skinned woman with abnormal physiology and supernatural powers. Meanwhile, a mauled police inspector is investigating a series of serial killings in which the bodies of seemingly random individuals appear to have been torn apart from the inside out... and a mechanical failure enables Nikopol, a political dissident sentenced to 30 years of hibernation, to escape from prison a year early.

''It's almost like some Greek tragedy, all the pieces slowly coming together.''

The CGI graphics for the movie were produced by Creator/QuanticDream.

Not to be confused with the band ''Music/{{Immortal}}'', or the film ''Film/{{Immortals}}''. And do not, for the love of Horus, confuse with the Fan Fic ''FanFic/MyImmortal''.

!!This movie contains examples of:

* AnArmAndALeg: "I gained a year, but I lost a leg. [[PrecisionFStrike FUCK!]]"
* [[EyeBeams Ancient Egyptian Eyebeams]]: Who knew the God of the Heavens had these!
* AnimalNemesis: Inspector Froebe has had a grudge against the Dayak ever since it bit half of his face off.
* ArtificialLimbs: Horus crafts a new leg for Nikopol out of a piece of railway.
* ArtShift: Most of the film is computer-animated but life-action scenes are also used. Early in the film people of the same art style seem to stay by themselves, but later real people and a computer-generated man drive in the same car for instance.
* BerserkButton: Do ''not'' mistake Horus for Anubis.
* BigApplesauce: Talk about big! (Unsurprisingly, it has more of a European feel.)
* BigBadassBirdOfPrey: Horus in his bird form.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Jill remembers nothing of Nikopol, but they meet and are fascinated by each other, enabling them to start their relationship anew without Horus' interference(aside from [[DivineParentage Horus' contribution]] to their child, but said shapeshifting baby is rather fascinating as well).]]
* BilingualBonus: Jill reciting a snippet of Baudelaire's "The Poison" in french.
* BloodKnight: The Dayak.
* CompellingVoice: Horus.
* CulturalTranslation: Originally taking place in Paris, it was moved to New York for the movie.
* CyberpunkWithAChanceOfRain: The skies in New York are perpetually and dismally overcast, except in Central Park, which mysteriously has the weather conditions of Antarctica.
* DoubleStandardRapeDivineOnMortal: The Egyptian god Horus forces himself on [[spoiler:the only woman on Earth able to bear his child]] using mind control. The guy whose body he possessed to do this was less than pleased, and it remains a bitter point of their love triangle (since the possessed guy starts falling for her).
* [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer Even the Doctor Wants Her]]
* EverythingsBetterWithPenguins: Seen hanging around the Intrusion Zone in Central Park.
* TheExoticDetective: Inspector Froebe *heel click*.
* ExtraParentConception: Horus possesses Nikopol to create one with Jill.
* FishOutOfTemporalWater: Nikopol, which is why he's a suitable host.
* {{Flying Car}}s
* FlyingSeafoodSpecial: The Dayak, who looks like a red hammerhead sharktopus, can hover.
* ForbiddenZone: The Intrusion Zone in Central Park.
* HotPursuit: On rails!!
* HumanPopsicle: The way GLOBUS 1 keeps its prisoners.
* IntangibleMan: The Egyptian Gods.
* KlingonPromotion: Vote for Ling!
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Both John and Horus do this to Jill.
* LastOfHisKind: The Dayak.
* LivingMacGuffin: [[spoiler:Jill Bioskop]].
* MadnessMantra: Nikopol recites Bauderlaire while defrosting.
* MechanicalMonster: The artificial Dayak.
* MediumBlending: Combines life-action and computer animated scenes and characters. Justified because some characters like the egyptian gods would look silly in their get-up in life-action, but except for three people of the main cast everyone is computer generated.
* MegaCorp: The Eugenics Corporation.
* MentorShip: Jill and John.
* NoBodyLeftBehind: [[spoiler:After John dies, his body disappears, leaving only the clothes and black bandages he was wrapped in.]]
* OnlyOneName: Nikopol, John.
** In the comic book, Nikopol's first name is Alcide
* PersonalMook: The Dayak.
* {{Physical God}}s: The Egyptian gods
* PossessionBurnout: Horus runs into this problem, as he can only successfully possess pure humans unaltered by genetic modification. As most of the humans in 2095 New York are augmented in some way, they eventually die after he takes over their bodies. Nikopol is suitable as a host body precisely because he's still unaltered, having spent the last several decades in a cryo-prison.
* PowersViaPossession: The only way Nikopol can lift that iron leg of his. [[spoiler:Before departing from Earth, Horus grants him the ability to use the leg permanently.]]
* PragmaticAdaptation: The film version selects certain images and story elements from the comics and uses those. Since Bilal adapted his own work, he must have done so carefully.
* ScienceFantasy: The film is set in the future and features things such as flying cars, human augmentation, and other sci-fi conventions, but there are also Egyptian gods running amok with supernatural powers.
* SharkMan: One of the scientists that captured Jill is a red-skinned man/hammerhead hybrid.
* ShoutOut: Nikopol asks for a shot of [[Creator/AndreiTarkovsky ''Tarkovskai'']] vodka at the Tycho Brahe Bar.
** A woman with prominent facial surgery is seen in a clinic early in the film. Viewers may recognise her from Creator/TerryGilliam's ''Film/{{Brazil}}''.
* SinisterGeometry: The spaceship used by the Egyptian Pantheon is naturally a flying pyramid.
* SwissArmyTears: Averted. Jill's tears are only good for permanently staining human skin blue.
* TheFaceless: John.
* UrbanSegregation: "Non-humans" all live in the lower levels.
* UsedFuture
* VoiceOfTheResistance: The Spirit of Nikopol.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Horus can not only switch from animal-headed humanoid to full eagle form, but can also alter his host's body [[spoiler:as seen when Nikopol's multi-story fall is stopped by his arms turning into wings.]]
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Apparently it's one of the defining characteristics of Jill's species, along with blue nipples.