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By Chris Hewitt (2,086) for St. Paul Pioneer Press (4,360) on 12 Jan 2014

The best that can be said of this latest take on Hercules is that it is over fast,…

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By Adam Fendelman (235) for HollywoodChicago.com (623) on 11 Jan 2014

It's a summer blockbuster wannabe that opened in January instead to recoup the piece of its $70 million budget that it can…

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By John Hanlon (483) for John Hanlon Reviews (327) on 11 Jan 2014

More accurately titled 'The Letdown of Hercules,' this Greek drama offers up threadbare characters and an excessive amount of slow motion…

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By Rob Vaux (1,125) for Mania.com (396) on 11 Jan 2014

The kind of resolute badness that makes you idly wonder if you shouldn't just slip next door to catch the end of The Hobbit…

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By Kevin Carr (1,610) for Fat Guys at the Movies (419) on 11 Jan 2014

Harlin makes the genius move of surrounding Lutz with actors who are worse than he is, so the lead doesn't look so bad…

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By Nick Rogers (786) for The Film Yap (559) on 10 Jan 2014

An early frontrunner for 2014's funniest credit: Ironing by Bogdan Lambev. Mr…

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By Julian Roman (454) for MovieWeb (460) on 10 Jan 2014

The Legend of Hercules is a total clunker…

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By Nick Schager (2,294) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 10 Jan 2014

A chintzy, poorly acted origin story of the legendary Greek hero that blatantly mimics its genre ancestors while drenching its action in corny…

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By Christopher Campbell (291) for Film School Rejects (1,198) on 10 Jan 2014

Abominable even for a Hercules movie ... If this were truly the stuff of legend, that word would have the opposite meaning of what it's supposed to…

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By John Hazelton (142) for Screen International (2,241) on 10 Jan 2014

The look and feel of a B-movie with none of the edge that sometimes makes that genre more fun than the pricey studio alternatives…

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By Rafer Guzman (1,080) for Newsday (2,345) on 10 Jan 2014

This painfully feeble version of the strongman story fails on every level, from Lutz's wooden acting to the styrofoam special effects…

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By Jordan Hoffman (1,025) for ScreenCrush (954) on 10 Jan 2014

The best way to describe 'The Legend of Hercules' is as the fake movie that teenagers in movies go to see…

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By Matt Donato (975) for We Got This Covered (2,391) on 10 Jan 2014

With an unbalanced story and an even worse 3D conversion, The Legend Of Hercules is an abysmal production that feels hours longer than it should…

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By Matthew Razak (302) for Flixist.com (210) on 10 Jan 2014

I am now staking my claim that despite the fact that I have seen no other 2014 movies, none of them will be worse than this…

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By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 10 Jan 2014

Played with an earnestness that's positively deadly, this unholy mash-up of '300' and 'Gladiator'...seems to drag on for an eternity…

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By Daniel M. Kimmel (1,403) for New England Movies Weekly (716) on 10 Jan 2014

It isn't very good…

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By Teddy Durgin (233) for Screen It! (1,437) on 10 Jan 2014

The cheesiest, most self-serious sword-and-sandal fight-fest you can imagine.(Full Content Review for Parents also available)…

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By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 10 Jan 2014

Bad casting, a story which dismisses legends for battles and gladiator arenas, along with artificial looking sets, obvious matte backgrounds…

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By Bill Clark (530) for FromTheBalcony (528) on 10 Jan 2014

It's difficult to even discern what the appeal is, but if you like choppy action sequences, hammy acting, and are completely bored out of your…

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By Edward Douglas (1,395) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 10 Jan 2014

Not a terrible movie as much as a redundant one since we've already seen much of the source material and most of that does it better than this…

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