Hercules (2014) - Reviews

...the film excels where audience members buying a ticket will want it to. The battle scenes are chock full of fun and creativity, almost guaranteed to put a smile on any action lovers face’s.

Shot acrobatically and also mostly coherently, these action bits are entertaining in the way you might expect.

Unsurprisingly, Johnson makes for a perfect movie-star Hercules, and the film gets a lot of mileage by playing his charismatic-but-modest take on the character off of the strong, predominantly British cast.

Voldsomt muskuløse Dwayne ’The Rock’ Johnson er en fysisk frygtindgydende skikkelse i Ratners tegneserieinspirerede actionudgave af myten om Zeus’ søn Herkules...

Filmen er en uhøjtidelig afmytologisering, hvor heltens status som halvgud og søn af Zeus viser sig at at være en stadig mere elaboreret røverhistorie.

...ideen med at se Hercules som mand frem for halvgud er god, og med sympatiske Dwayne »The Rock« Johnson med de overnaturlige muskler i titelrollen, hepper vi på ham hele vejen frem til den episke slutning, der ikke får for lidt!

...den mytologiske fortælling [er] omsat til et buldrende og overraskende underholdende eventyr, der smart forholder sig til, hvordan fantasi og historiefortælling kan forme vores virkelighed.

...vil bare gerne hygge med solide blodudgydelser over sin lette ramasjang.

...Hercules’ battles are impressively practical: good ol’ fashioned human-on-human rough-housing with only minor digital augmentation.

...[a] cheerfully ridiculous and entertaining film...

...a big-budget adventure indebted more to cornier sword-and-sandal movies of yesteryear than the exaggerated bloodshed and sepia-toned abs of 300 and its countless knock-offs...