When Kevin Sorbo and Hercules: The Legendary Journey is a more accurate representation of the Hercules myth than the new The Legend of Hercules movie, then you know something has gone horribly wrong. Kevin Lutz (who?) stars as “Hercules”… a man who accomplishes exactly one thing from the myths (besides being the son of Zeus… I guess).

Here he’s a prince of conquering king, in love with a princess, in a battle of sorts for the throne with his evil half-brother… turned into a Roman soldier (I mean, a Greek soldier… but they sure looked Roman to me) and then into a slave, a gladiator, and a freedom fighter. This is a movie made by a guy who saw all those other movies and decided to do that too.. Gladiator, 300, Braveheart, etc.

The flick has terrible dialog, overacting, underacting, abstract acting, yelling acting, bland acting, distractingly bad editing (some things MIGHT have been left on the cutting room floor), mediocre visual FX, and random slow-mo action scenes because they did that in 300. Surprisingly, there are some actually good action scenes (or moments of scenes) with really good stunt work (which are usually in slow-mo so we can appreciate them). Ultimately, they have made a Greek myth movie with no gods (at least with speaking rolls), no monsters, very little magic, and no trials of Hercules.

Score: 62