Review of Hercules (2014) by Phj — 08 Sep 2014

Hercules is based on ups and downs, maybe more downs than ups, unfortunately. Dwayne Johnson played a medium acting, as usual from him, a huge and strong man, but always without the deep focus in the character that you always want from him.

Hercules is based on the generic story, so if you're going to the movies to watch the mythological well telled, you're going to the wrong movie. Hercules is much more about action than story, the ups of the movie are in some details that could be less focused, like the army formation for an example, they could focus that much effort in other aspects of the movie, like going deeper in the myth story, or in the 12 jobs, but no.

Meanwhile the action scenes are at least exciting, Hercules isn't portrayed like an super powerful character, but as a strong and tactical army leader, which's nice and more realistic, he's portrayed as a pirate to, which is a detail that should be added in a more historical-focused movie, not in Brett Ratner's Hercules, so that confuses you a little bit about the focus of the movie. Brett Ratner was afraid of producing a fiction movie more than a historical movie, which is a smart move from him, but I just think that in that case, if he was trying to portray the mythological world, some fiction would just make it more realistic.

My conclusion is that Hercules is the typical blockbuster, a movie about a rich mythological character more focused in action than story-telling, meanwhile the scenaries, character construction and action scenes are nice, it is a 60 out 100 movie.