Hercules

Hercules

Rating 7 out of 10
I generally like movies like this.  300 is one of my all time favorites.  Hercules is no 300, but if you watch the trailer and feel you want to see it I think you will be entertained.  I was.

Hercules is a half man/half god when his father fooled around with a human woman.  Seems these gods could not keep their hands off the human women.  When Zeus fools around with a human woman his son looks like he was chiseled out of granite and is an incredible warrior.  In this movie Hercules is played by Dwayne Johnson who on an average day looks like he was chiseled from stone.  He has buffed up even more for this movie.

Hercules since the murdering of his beautiful wife and kids has turned with his small band of warriors to  be a sword for hire wanting to get together enough gold coins together to retire to the mountains where he can be away from all people.  You know how this goes.  They need to do one more job to have enough gold to walk away from it all.  In comes Lord Cotys (John Hurt) and his lovely daughter who need his help defeating some evil enemies and offer to pay as much gold as they can carry.  Amazingly enough this don't go as planned.

You don't go to this movie for an intricate plot.  You go for lots of action and the Rock throwing people around like rag dolls.  This movie does not disappoint on that ground.  For me it was disappointing having this movie have a PG-13 rating which at times turns the fighting to a cartoonish way.

Overall I was entertained.  Saw it on the big IMAX screen.  That was very good.  I would say if you have any plans of seeing this movie it needs to be watched on a big screen rather than renting at home.