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2	* ClicheStorm: Critics roasted this film for its many similarities to ''Film/ThreeHundred'', ''Film/{{Gladiator}}'', and ''Film/{{Clash of the Titans\|2010}}''.
3	* CompleteMonster: [[EvilOverlord King Amphitryon]] is [[AdaptationalVillainy much worse than his depiction in the original mythology]], being a cruel tyrant bent on conquering and subjugating everything around him. Favoring his eldest son over Hercules, Amphitryon sends the latter to join a military platoon led by Captain Sotiris before having a group of mercenaries ambush and massacre them all. When Hercules and Sotiris survive, Amphitryon sells them off as slaves to become fighters in the GladiatorGames. Amphitryon later [[TilMurderDoUsPart kills his own wife]] after finding her praying to Hera, and has Hercules [[ATasteOfTheLash flogged in public]] when he rises up against him.
4	* {{Narm}}:
5	** "TONIGHT WE FIGHT FOR OUR LIVES!" Well duh, you're soldiers... unless you're suicidal ones.
6	** Alcmene making love to the wind is hard to take seriously.
7	** A lot of the film's dramatic scenes are also hard to take seriously due to the acting ranging from DullSurprise to LargeHam.
8	---> '''Amphitryon:''' [[MotorMouth HaveyoucometobringTHEWRATHOFZEUSUPONMEH]]'''[[ChewingTheScenery BOOOOOY]]'''?!
9	** The use of gratuitous slow motion can get rather ridiculous, particularly when it's used in [[MundaneMadeAwesome relatively mundane scenes]] like ''a horse jumping over a log''.
10	* QuestionableCasting: Kellan Lutz as Hercules. To be fair, it's not his first Myth/GreekMythology beefcake role as he was Poseidon in ''Film/{{Immortals}}'', but any actor associated with the ''Film/{{Twilight}}'' films (which are infamous for the [[DullSurprise wooden acting]] of nearly all the actors) gets this reaction.
11	* SpecialEffectFailure: For a $70 million movie, many viewers and critics noted that some of the CGI looked more like it belonged in a direct-to-video movie. This was ''especially'' true of the Nemean Lion that Hercules fights, which you can see [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo5nkalL56g here]].
12	* TaintedByThePreview: The first trailer showed Hercules as a [[GladiatorGames gladiator]], with gladiator armor. Cue bewilderment, since GladiatorGames were [[AncientGrome Roman, not Greek]]. Not helping was the fact that it looked [[InNameOnly barely related to the Hercules myths]].

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