The Legend of Hercules

Every man has a destiny

This unfortunate film has had a rough reception from the critics. Badly historically confused, it meshes Greek mythology into Roman history and comes up a mess. Set in Ancient Greece around 1200 B.C., a queen succumbs to the lust of Zeus to bear a son promised to overthrow the tyrannical rule of the king and restore peace to a land in hardship. But this prince, Hercules, knows nothing of his real identity or his destiny. He desires only one thing: the love of Hebe, Princess of Crete, who has been promised to his own brother. When Hercules learns of his greater purpose, he must choose: to flee with his true love or to fulfill his destiny and become the true hero of his time. So in quick succession we go through Gladiator and Ben-Hur and end up at Spartacus, which proves to be a real killfest. This film is releasing in both 2D and 3D, this is the 2D version.

99 minutes.
No persons under 13 (Violence).
Action, Adventure.

Showtimes

Just call me Spartacus!

Credits

Cast	Kellan Lutz, Gaia Weiss, Scott Adkins, Roxanne McKee, Liam Garrigan, Liam McIntyre
Director	Renny Harlin
Screenplay	Sean Hood, Daniel Giat, Renny Harlin, Giulio Steve
Music	Tuomas Kantelinen
Cinematography	Sam McCurdy
Editing	Vincent Tabaillon
Sound formats
Soundtrack	Available
SA distributor	Independent
Made in	2014
Produced by	Millennium Films

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Film and Publications Board (FPB) Report (SA)

Genre	Action
Language	None
Nudity	None
Sex	Mild and low implied sex
Violence	Moderate, frequent, no blood
Prejudice	None
Blasphemy	None
Drug abuse	None
Comments
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ScreenIt Report (USA)

Sex / Nudity	Violence	Blood / Gore / Gross
Guns / Weapons	Profanity	Alcohol / Drugs
Smoking	Disrespectful / Bad Attitude	Imitative Behaviour
Frightening / Tense Scenes	Jump Scenes	Tense Family Scenes
Music (Scary/Tense)	Music (Inappropriate)	Topics to talk about

CommonSenseMedia Report (USA)

Suggested age limit 13 +	Positive messages	Positive role models
Violence	Sex	Language
Consumerism	Drinking, drugs, smoking

Ratings

Scale (Max)	20
What the Critics say
Cape Argus / The Star Stephanie Merry What a legendary failure.	2
Cape Times Todd McCarthy Mammoth mistake.	2
ScreenIt T. Durgin You know it's bad. It's bad. Really, really bad! Badly cast; badly acted; badly staged, shot, and edited. It's bad on pretty much every level a movie can be.	2
Metacritic.com 19 critics	4
Rottentomatoes critics 69 critics	5
Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer Cheap-looking, poorly acted, and dull, The Legend of Hercules is neither fun enough to qualify as an action movie nor absorbing enough to work on a dramatic level.	1
Movie Review Query Engine MRQE critics	6
CommonSenseMedia Staff evaluation	5
What the People say
Internet 16357 Netizens A WONDERFUL Criticism Of Traditional Movie-Making	8
Average .. 19%	4