[ONE AND 1/2 STARS]
Did anyone else get bored watching this trailer? I got bored. Hercules: The Legend Begins is a collection of bad clichés with the names of mythological figures slapped on them. This film looks like what you’d get if you combined Gladiator with 300 with Samson and Delilah with Romeo and Juliet with a bunch more stupid.
I remember when Disney’s animated feature Hercules came out, there was a lot of groaning from academia. “This film doesn’t follow the legend of Hercules accurately,” “Disney just made up a bunch of stuff about Hercules” etc. Well, I think by comparison, Hercules: The Legend Begins makes Disney’s Hercules look like mythological canon.
For instance, Hercules having Zeus-fueled lightning powers? That—that is pure poppycock. Hercules is just really strong. He’s not a Jedi. And where are all the Gods? And also, back to my boredom. This trailer is so monotone. It hits one note of “This is serious shit” and then practically gives away the entire movie. My guess is that when Hercules uses his Jedi powers, that’s the climax of the film, when he and his gladiatorial comrades are storming the city for the sole purpose of ensuring Hercules can be with his girlfriend. Who would even go into battle for that? Honestly.
I give Hercules: The Legend Begins one and a half stars. Later in 2014 Dwayne Johnson will be playing Hercules in Hercules: The Thracian Wars, hopefully that film will be everything this film is not.
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