Intense, gripping, stylish and poignant

It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

Movie Review: "The Legend Of Hercules" (2014)Summit Entertainment and Millinium Films took some risk between their smash hits "Expendables 2" (2012) and "Expendables 3" (2014) in order to bring a old dusty mythological tale of the birth of Hercules, who needs to fight through various stages as to say level of action to find his beloved character of Hebe, here performed by actress Gaia Weiss, and defeated a power-seeking character of Amphityron, portrayed by actor Scott Adkins in testosterone-spreading in high-speed 3D red epic camera system dual-strip shots, reminiscencing the production, which started the mode of contemporary mystery-action fantasy movies "300" directed by Zack Snyder and followed by "Immortals" directed by Tarsem Singh. This Renny Harlin, known for hard-boiled action thriller in the 90s as "Cliffhanger" (1993) and "Deep Blue Sea" (1999), directed fast-forward actioner does not exceed his predecessor pictures, too unidentifiable become the characters' introduction, too staggered the only push into digital camera style. Nevertheless any spectator, who sits through the accelerated ninety minutes movie gets presented with a gifted showdown, witnessing Hercules summon the lightnings of Zeus to defeat an army before concluding his quest in a decently choreographed final sword / spear / knife fight with nemesis Amphitryon.© 2017 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

There is nothing wrong with this movie. Not a remarkable flick, but far from the 1 star reviews. But there is a lot wrong with most of the reviews. It's more interesting to hear what really caused people to give it such low ratings, surely because of some hate for some reason. The movie deserves perhaps a 5 or a 6/10.No doubt, this is not an Oscar winner movie and not a summer blockbuster. But for the type of movie, it's a good enough one. Reviewers here say atrocious acting. Perhaps they need to open their eyes when watching a movie. Not the best acting for sure, but good enough for an unpretentious summer movie. Just know what you are going to watch.Atrocious? Unbelievably Awful? Worst Movie Of The Year? Worst movie ever? How a film this bad made it to theaters? These reviews are far more comical than the movie would ever be.Why this people want to compare this with the 300 or Gladiator? That is exactly the problem with all reviews. They were expecting another Gladiator and were totally deceived. If I was expecting to see Godzilla and I get T-Rex on the theater screen I would too be deceived.It is a decent pop corn movie for people WITHOUT expectations.

First, it isn't "Hercules", but "Heracles", "grace of Hera". I don't know how come Anglo people have such a hard time with the immortal hero's original, Greek name. In here, about each time they pronounced his name, they underline the fact that it meant "Heracles, grace of Hera" but called him by his Roman name anyway. It added a superfluous layer of fake of the movie, IMO.Moving on; The title is ironic anyway because the legend of Heracles gets severely mangled here: Oh, we've got the Nemean lion, but no mention of the snakes send after his crib, or the twelve labours, or any other chapter in the life of this godly hero plagued with many too human traits. No, what we've got here is a likable farm hand boy and a run-of-the-mill love triangle story so mundane that elaborating about it would be useless. He shows little strength of either will or muscle, being easily overpowered about half a dozen times in the movie.The whole movie is sanitized to the point that there is no blood nor flesh nor any of these nasty things that takes place in the world we live in. To make this gruel more appealing, it was filmed à la Gladiator (from which it also takes its basic script) and 300, for the battle sequences and general photography (complete with an abuse of Matrix-like stop motion, for *every* move). There is action and romance all of the time, and yet indifference ensues. There's a fine line between cleanliness and insipidity.The actors, rushed and lacking direction, vary from acceptable (Kenneth Cranham) to mediocre (pretty much everybody else). The sets, stunts and fights do look good, but lack originality. The soundtrack is, well, unnoticeable.Short version: 3/10. Pretty much because I am outraged that Heracles, the basis for what we know today as the "super-heroes" culture, is being reduced here to a romantic teenage gladiator. On the other hand the movie is great if one has sleeping disorders - works every time for me.

In Ancient Greece 1200 B.C., a queen succumbs to the lust of Zeus to bear a son promised to overthrow the tyrannical rule of the king and restore peace to a land in hardship. But this prince, Hercules, knows nothing of his real identity or his destiny. He desires only one thing: the love of Hebe, Princess of Crete, who has been promised to his own brother. When Hercules learns of his greater purpose, he must choose: to flee with his true love or to fulfill his destiny and become the true hero of his time. The story behind one of the greatest myths is revealed in this action-packed epic - a tale of love, sacrifice and the strength of the human spirit. The Legend of Hercules suffers from a really bad script and plot and Renny Harlin's once promising career has went straight to hell although the action sequences are good looking the rest of the film is this low budget over blown story that takes things from Gladiator and 300 the problem with directors this days and movies like this it's that they don't bother to even read the mythology of this people i can pass the whole thing with 300 but here? it's just a big mess.