The Legend of Hercules

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Danny R Just watched this film with zero expectations or previous opinions from others, few cans of Stella and a cheeky bag and it’s viewers delight, no unnecessary prolonged scenes that cloud the rather clear purpose of this film which is to be admired quite frankly, if I were a Roman emperor and this film were the gladiators fighting to the death, my thumb would most certainly be raised Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 10/08/24 Full Review Wayne p This is the most aggravation I've had with a movie in a long time. I could have written and directed this better. Wtf is going on in the industry. I have zero experience in writing but this is dry and unsatisfactory. Remove from history. It's shite! Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 07/24/24 Full Review Georgianna C Entertaining! Great fight scenes. Held my attention! Was really rooting for Hercules and Hebe! Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 04/19/24 Full Review Carson P An atrocious mess on every aspect it has no understanding of what the legend of the muscular warrior god is nor does it understand dumb fun action entertainment in fact it is far from that there is nothing entertaining, nor interesting to watch, the dialogue on every level is cringe inducing and poorly written, the acting is awful from top to bottom, there was not a single good performance from any of these actors, and plus it doesn't even look accurate to its source material of Greek mythology, nothing makes sense one point someone tells someone to come closer when they are already close enough to them to listen speak, there is soo much pointless slow motion that serves no purpose to the scenes, and when there is an event going on all the people seeing it look disinterested and don't look like they care making everyone look emotionless nor putting any effort to their respective roles. Such as that scene with Hercules being chained up and everyone watching doesn't look like they give a $$$$ and not to mention the look, framing, lighting and production design look so cheap and fake that it either looks visually ugly, or just downright lousy and unconvincing, everything from the water to the forests, horses, landscapes and buildings and ships look so fake it doesn't even look like they used anything to depict them. Oh yeah and there is also a bad CGI lion aka the nemeon lion which he fights that almost looks like a giant stuffed animal, and the fight choreography was so poor not just because of the Bad slo no and speed ups but that they just look boring, and unconvincing, with poor editing and disorienting angles and close ups. I even found there to be a scene when an incompetent fighter tries to stab him with a spear but instead shows that it tucked under his armpit, wow how incompetent and lazy was that not to mention the apponents of Hercules in that arena looked so laughable they looked like punk rockers and crust punk bikers with mohawks and sharp dressings. Worst of all is that the film almost feels like some love story which it has but there is no emotional feeling to it the charachters have no chemistry and it was so uninteresting and poorly written, who had the idea to add this to a movie. And that end scene when he used a fake looking lightning whip to wipe out his enemies and then fight the evil tyrant king that slayed every other greek king to become one himself was just so boring and painful to watch with more badly choreographed fight scenes and then showing his girlfriend having babies at the end even though she stabbed herself. It was just awful and the girlfriend princess was just so annoying and unlikeable that I actually wanted her to die and have Hercules loose the one he loved in fact I was actually roooting for Hercules to die and be killed he was just so unlikeable and wimpy here. How do they manage to butcher the charachter/god and make him look like a weakling I felt so bad for it. I walked out of the theater so bewildered and upset that I had to almost ask for my money back but just couldn't get it this movie was a beyond worthless shlockfest with no redeeming charachters whatsoever. Bassically they say movies that have action are made to entertain and have fun regardless if it has silliness to it resulting of them calling them dumb fun popcorn flicks but this was not like that at all even those dumb fun popcorn action film had more intelligence , good writing, dialogue, acting and directing to them as well as making some level of sense and having some level of brain/thought to it even if they were not deep thinking movies and were for the most part used as turn your brain off watches but this was not in that category at all it had no brain, no heart, no soul, no tension, no purpose, no motivation, no drama, no thrill, no inspiration, no emotion, no excitement, no life and no meaning, or senseful thought to it it was a joyless, boring mess that was just made to ruin the Greek mythology genre or even the genre of sword and sandal fighting in genneral it even butchers the way older ones did it like gladiator and 300 especially gladiator that had some of the best fight scenes and the legend of Hercules looked like a much cheaper and poorly done version of that Renny Harlin cannot match any level of brilllianve Ridley Scott brought to the sword and sandal stadium fighting genre regardless of Roman or Greek this was made with none of the talent that Ridley Scott used to make well staged and realistically convincing fight scenes in gladiator, instead this was just a waste of time and money and just outraged all fans of the story of Hercules, it's soo poorly directed no wonder why Renny Harlin is considered such a terrible director he is almost uwe boll level bad and considering both him and boll are German they are alike already Harlin is a bad director without a single good film not even deep blue sea was good as it was just a knock off of jaws. He is a bad director on every aspect and here with ruining the story of Hercules this is probably his worst film yet. The good news is that there was a better version of it made the same year with Dwayne Johnson and directed by brett ratner watch that instead that one is the real Hercules and the one we have been waiting for to hit the big screen that one was far better made and was more accurate to the mythology, if you want to see a good Hercules movie that is made in this 21st century and has the realistic looks of the landscapes of it's Ancient Greek times see the Brett ratner version. Avoid the Renny Harlin one at all costs it is an Epic Fail with a Capital F Avoid it like the plague if you want to have your favorite Greek god respected and treated the way he is supposed to be depicted. This movie gets a Big Fat F Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 10/10/24 Full Review Jet M A bit cheesy at times but a very entertaining movie! Much better than these reviews would lead you to believe. A compelling love story, bad guys that you will love to hate, and a great hero. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/22/24 Full Review Steven B 90 minutes of "Look, we have muscles! Wasn't there someone named Hercules who had muscles too?" Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 03/16/24 Full Review Read all reviews

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