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By Glenn Dunks (375) for Film Experience (395) on 10 Jan 2014

After this ridiculous, boring, occasionally laugh-out-out worthy catastrophe of a flick, I'd be fine without going back to the Hercules well…

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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 Scott Bowles (160) for USA Today (4,117) on 10 Jan 2014

There's a fun retro camp to Hercules, with nods to classics such as Ben-Hur and Spartacus, as Hercules finds himself rowing slave ships and…

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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 Drew Taylor (218) for The Playlist (3,871) on 10 Jan 2014

A movie so ugly and woeful that you'll wish you had superhuman strength to pluck your own eyeballs out of your head…

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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 Susan Wloszczyna (541) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 10 Jan 2014

While Lutz might possess the beefcake to fill out his chest armor, he lacks the acting chops to make us much care about the fate of his gleaming…

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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 Kurt Loder (858) for Reason Online (497) on 10 Jan 2014

The story is a hash of beefcake mythology, the dialogue a steady dribble of earthbound utterance, the sword-clanging action a master class…

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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 Kenji Fujishima (277) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 10 Jan 2014

Given its virtuous subject matter and the relative bloodlessness of its violence, perhaps Renny Harlin means for this film to be a means of…

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By Scott Foundas (913) for Variety (12,700) on 10 Jan 2014

Lutz’s acting muscles aren’t nearly as well developed as his pectorals and deltoids, and while the role may not call for a master thespian,…

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By A.o. Scott (2,100) for The New York Times (9,847) on 10 Jan 2014

This movie, with its relatively modest running time and not-quite-household-name cast, is no more ridiculous than, let’s say, the “Thor”…

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By Bilge Ebiri (1,050) for New York Magazine (Vulture) (3,519) on 10 Jan 2014

Like so many of today’s action films, The Legend of Hercules is too busy peddling slick, stone-faced portent to ever bother making us laugh,…

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By Matt Patches (283) for Film.com (1,892) on 10 Jan 2014

While the art of action filmmaking depreciates, Harlin remains steadfast in his classicism, even if the movie doesn’t have the foundation…

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