mickey rourke plays the ruthlessnd t bloodhirsty king hyperion, who's storming across greece with hissive army. only one man can stop him, the hunky and frequently shirtless theseus, played by henry cavill. >> theseus, there's little the king does not know. he knows that you have no father and like him you are drawn by your people. >> does he know of my rage? does he know that i live to only see the blood at the end of my sword. does he know that he butchered my mother. >> no, he's seen your face. he knows. >> christy lemire: theseus gets some help in his quest from the wise-cracking stavros, played by stephen dorff, a beautiful virgin oracle played by freida pinto. the gods on high are supposed to just watch what these mortals do and not get involved, but it's boring up there and sometimes they can't help themselves. ♪ >> christy lemire: king hyperion, dressed in his evil bunny rabbit helmet eventually captures the thing he'd been seeking all along, a magical bow that shoots an endless stream of metallic, laser-like arrows. between that and his mighty troops, he would seem unstoppabl

king hyperion. this role you're playing here. >> i showed up with my pants on and said my lines. tavis:, no. tell me about the character. >> the character is a mythology character that he's a god that's -- that they threw out of upstairs. whatever they wanted to call it then. and he is down here on earth. and people said, well, he's really a mean -- he's quite evil. and i try to say, well, you look at it like, well, he considered this territory his neighborhood. and some young -- is coming into his neck of the woods on his bs. no, no, this is my neighborhood. so, you know, you have to ask a daddlse. -- you have to skedaddle. tavis: you love this. i can see this on your face. >> i have a good time. you like playing evil guys. i take what they offer me. but i always look for something that has integrity. like that's why i chose to work with this director. i saw his commercial reel. and i was blown away by it. he even did a commercial where -- reel where he had all these athletes and they were in masks and nike with derek jeter and all these other guys. and that was like preparation

and a quick plot summary here theseus was on a quest to stop the evil king hyperion before he found a that could destroy all of man kind. pretty cool. typical plot of movies like this. you know the hero, trying to stop the evil guy. i thought it was a little different. really cool. i enjoyed it. >> looks like a beautifully made movie. >> it was really beautiful. i enjoyed it. you don't have to take it from me. let's hear what movie goers had to say. >> it was great. a hit. >> if you read greek mythology, greek everything, it is not that great of a movie. >> i love the movie. >> good story line. >> action, i love action. >> a lot of blood, killing. excitement. >> i am a big fan of greek mythology. i felt like there was a lot of effort into creating the plot. >> it had the drama which made up for the fact that it didn't look as realistic as it could have. >> yeah. i mean everybody really enjoyed it. >> yeah, thought it was good. i gave it four out of five stars. >> that's a lot. >> really good. >> good rating. the only problem i had is i wish it was a little better graphically. had to t

starting friday, he plays the bloodthirsty king hyperion in the new adventure movie "immortals."hello to mickey rourke. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: how are you? everything all right? >> stressed. >> jimmy: stress? >> yeah. i have an eye infection, they said it was from stress. >> jimmy: is that right? they say everything is from stress because they don't want to look into things. how can you get an infection from stress? >>> was making a movie over in indonesia called "java heat." >> jimmy: is it about coffee? >> i just read my part in the script. it takes 23 hours to get there. and i call it amnesia, indonesia. but every time i would order, i ordered spaghetti, they put an egg on top of it. it was one of those places. >> jimmy: maybe you have the bird flu or something, too many eggs. >> well, the doctor said there's something going on there but i would rather take care of it after you see jimmy. >> jimmy: oh, thank you. that's nice of you to hold back on your health for me. well -- you look fine. i mean, your eye doesn't look -- it doesn't look red or anything. it looks ok