What an awful excuse of a movie! The Legend of Hercules is nothing more than a very shoddy knockoff of 300 and Gladiator featuring: a plot line written by a preschooler, blatant historical inaccuracies, a complete disregard for any and all Greek/Roman mythology, actors that make pieces of wood look talented, and the worst clichés ever created piled one after the other. Nothing about “Hercules” in this film even remotely resembles the actual legend (aside from name), who’s given about as much respect as the 1998 Godzilla does to its title character (I swear there’s actually a scene where “Hercules” gets knocked out cold…by an ordinary man swinging a helmet.
However, the worst part about The Legend of Hercules was that I was TRICKED; tricked into believing what my fiancée and I were renting was a completely different film. See, apparently there are in fact 2 Hercules movies coming out in 2014; the first being this piece of steaming crap and the second being simply called Hercules, which is coming out later in July. A while back I saw a trailer for the second film, featuring Hercules taking on the twelve labours, and got completely fired up. When I saw The Legend of Hercules on Red Box I mistakenly believed (like an idiot) that Hercules had already left theaters and recommended my fiancée to pick it…why, oh why, did I do that!? Hercules’ trailer features some awesome looking CGI, while The Legend of Hercules’ CGI looks as if it was made for the Play Station 1. The Hercules trailer features him challenging the 12 legendary labours, while The Legend of Hercules contains one lousy fight between “Hercules” and a horribly animated Nemean Lion (which is actually just an ordinary Lion).
Take my advice: never see this film…in fact burn all copies you can find so no one has to see it (though I’m afraid the internet makes that quite difficult). Instead wait and see the upcoming version that’s clearly been given more time and effort towards. Or if you’re impatient, simply go watch the Disney version; even that one’s more accurate to the actual mythology than this incredibly boring, cheap looking, stale acting, cliché driven, rotten piece of filth.