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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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