The Legend of Hercules

Goodness, this film is awful. I wish I’d read the reviews before bothering to watch it. I wonder whether it was made by a bunch of teenagers in their first drama class? Maybe it was in their ancient history class so they weren’t even drama students? Oh, I just saw a 5 star review so that must be from the director’s very kind mum. haha it’s so bad. I would have given it 0 stars if I could.

Being years after the release of this movie and hating it then, I take my Sunday evening with a delicious meal and come across this movie while scrolling through Amazon Prime. I think, "What the hell, let's give it another go"! Oh how I was so, so wrong. The acting is absolutely atrocious! The script, is an absolute joke! Why is everyone yelling and talking with this chest voice, which makes the acting that much worse. All you had to do, is take the Disney cartoon movie, and copy it! Greek mythology about the half blood god Hercules, the son of Zeus! Instead you have ridiculous slow motion nonstop throughout the movie, like come on!!! Spoiler Alert!!! One scene where Hercules love runs to the water to see that her one true love is not dead and Everytime it cuts to Hercules in the water it's slow motion, than it cuts back to girl and she is in real time and than back to Hercules and he is in slow motion!!! This goes on for 2 minutes!!! This should never have been released and should have been destroyed on an island where they test nuclear weapons. And then every human being that was in the film should have signed NDA's to never speak of their involvement of said film. The director, sent back to directing mono toned teenages on YouTube. Horrible movie, and thank God for being able to multitask where I could be doing other things at the same time of the movie running because, sadly if I start a movie, I have to let it play through out of respect for someone in the movie I at least liked a little.

Loved it Amazing acting, great script and just fantastic cinema

It's just awful. The script sounds like it was written by an angsty 14 year old trying to sound grown up. The CGI is clunky. It's just awful. Don't waste your time.

I figured it couldn't be any worse than the Gladiator movies of the 1960's. I was wrong. So very wrong. As cheesy as the movies from the 60's were, I actually think they were better... Judge for yourself...but remember...I told you so.

this was not the legend of Hercules we know there is barely any resemblence to the characters arc and the plot is to cliched to be original and the actor kellan lutz is just sleepwalking in the role much of the time and he is basically acting almost nothing like the greek god and rather a poor mans Thor style knock off heck even his brother iphicles is portrayed as a knock of off his stepbrother Loki from the marvel series. meanwhile Scott Adkins as the evil king comes off as a poor mans version of Leonidas and especially an evil version of him and it all falls flat across the board what's even worse is how its shot and filmed the effects look so cheap and artificial there is a scene where he and his brother encounter a lion which look stupid the CGI lion was awful and stupid looking and almost didn't even act like the fearless and unafraid big cat we know of in real life he is instead portrayed as a scaredy cat how laughable its that can you imagine. there is also that scene when not Hercules uses a lightning whip that equally looks as stupid how would it even look like if there was such a thing or if there was such a thing of lighting striking a sword and giving it lightning power when raised in the air during a thunderstorm, it was so stupid I literally burst out In laughter seriously him using a lighting whip to whipe out his enemies he is Thor in Hercules clothing you hear that everyone Thor is disguised as Hercules and even his family or shall I say non family is a poorly done version of the family relationship of Thor, Loki and odin if he was evil its that noticable. there is also an unintentionally hilarious moment when the evil king catches the queen with zeus and when he opens the curtain he doesn't seem him and goes nuts and in an incomprehensible and growly tone he asks who is this man . yeah. then yells at the rainy sky how hilarious right. In just about every fight scene they use too much excessive slow motion and a fight scene can't be exiting when there is too much disruptive slow motion how they managed to screw it all up is beyond me this was a bewildering experience to watch and i highly recommend everyone to stay away from this atrociously schlocky mess don't bother with it its a skip.

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

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!

Entertaining! Great fight scenes. Held my attention! Was really rooting for Hercules and Hebe!

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