First off, the producers of this film thought it a good idea to make Kellan Luts Hercules! What the Fuck were they thinking? This guy can't act his way into a non-speaking role in a commercial! But, it isn't his fault entirely because not one person in this picture even attempts to act. Most of the people are supposed to be from the same general area yet they all have different accents? The sad thing about the acting is the best actor in it happens to be Scott Adkins and he is really only an established martial arts master.
The special effects and the CGI are completely atrocious to the point of making Tron and The Last Starfighter seem real. There is way too much green screen! There isn't enough blood considering that alot of the film takes place in gladiatorial games in arenas. Way to many slow motion scenes just thrown in to make the 3-D seem cooler but overall fails miserably. There is a lion during a scene and it looks like a stuffed animal. All the fire in it is done with computer, what they couldn't afford a fuckin' match? The effects look bad even for a made for TV movie!
There are some small positives and those are a couple of the fights scenes are okay. I mean that, they are just okay. Some of them also, you can tell they are choreographed. Especially the times when the people fighting completely miss each other but are meant to look like they connected.
This film wears its influences right out in the open. You can tell it got the slo-mo from 300, the gladiator stuff from...well, Gladiator, and the CGI looks stolen from a shitty version of Spartacus.
Now this film is directed by Renny Harlin who is of the Long Kiss Goodnight, Die Hard 2 and Cliffhanger fame from back in the 90's. He did a good job with those few action films but we must not forget that he also made Cutthroat Island! Island in my opinion wasn't bad although it wasn't remotely good either, it was though, a kind of fun, campy pirate film. Island did so bad in the theater that it single handedly killed Carolco Pictures, they went bankrupt even before the film got a theatrical release. Onto my point here, I wouldn't be surprised if this movie destroys Millennium Pictures!
At this very moment I am at the end of this film and it just had some of the worst CGI in the entire picture. If you watch this film just remember the lightning sword!
This is by far one of the sorriest excuses for an "A" film ever! It is 2014 now so there is no reason why this should be made so badly. There is another Hercules movie on the horizon, being released in June and starring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and that reason alone it will be a better film. I have my fingers crossed still
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