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Release Date: August 1 2014
Genre: Action/Adventure, Sci Fi, Superhero
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: James Gunn
Studio: Marvel Studios, Walt Disney Pictures
Starring: Benicio del Toro, Bradley Cooper, Chris Pratt, Dave Bautista, Djimon Hounsou, Glenn Close, John C. Reilly, Karen Gillan, Lee Pace, Michael Rooker, Vin Diesel, Zoe Saldana
Runtime: 122 min
Official Website: http://marvel.com/guardians

What do you get when you team up a thief, two thugs, an assassin, and a maniac in one crazy superhero action summer blockbuster? You get Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy starring Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, along with the voice talents of Bradley Cooper and Vin Diesel. Is this movie one the best Marvel superhero flicks ever or is this just a dumb sci fi spectacle featuring a bunch of A-holes?

Synopsis

In 1988, a young Peter Quill sits in a hospital listening to his Sony Walkman headphones while he patiently waits to see his mother on her death bed. His grandfather brings Peter in for her to say her goodbyes. His mom passes away in a room filled with family members, but not without giving her son a small token to remember her by. As Peter runs out of the hospital crying, he stumbles in the grass and a blinding light from the sky lights up the darkness. Suddenly a beam envelopes him and lifts him into a large spacecraft which takes him to the far reaches of the galaxy.
Twenty-six years later, Peter has become a legendary intergalactic outlaw who goes by the name of Star-Lord and is always in search of artifacts to sell to the highest bider. He’s a member of a clan of space pirates who call themselves Ravagers. While investigating ruins on a deserted planet for a priceless orb, he runs into a soldier named Korath the Pursuer who also wants the orb so he can deliver it to hos boss, Ronan the Accuser, a fanatical zealot from the Kree Empire who wants to use the orb to destroy Xandar, the planet of his arch enemies. Peter escapes with the orb, but in doing so double crosses his treasure hunting partner, Yondu Udonta, the leader of the Ravagers. Yondu is not at all pleased so he puts a bounty on Peter’s head for 40,000 units.
While on Xandar trying to pawn the orb to a man called the Broker, Peter runs into a couple of bounty hunters named Rocket and Groot who want the 40,000 unit reward. Rocket is a genetically engineered raccoon who can talk and Groot is his walking tree companion. Unfortunately, who else is after Peter is an assassin named Gamora. She is the daughter of the titan Thanos who has loaned her skills to Ronan in order to ensure she get the orb for him. All are captured by Xandar’s military police known as the Nova Corp and for past crimes are sent to the Kyln, a maximum security prison that floats in space.
At the prison, they meet Drax who wants to kill Gamora as revenge for Ronan murdering his wife and daughter. Peter convinces Drax that Ronan is the bigger target and to use Gamora as bait. Because Gamora wants the orb, Peter wants the payment, Drax wants revenge, and Rocket and Groot want the bounty, they all decide to work together to escape the prison and get to a location called Knowhere to sell the orb to Taneleer Tivan who is better known as The Collector. Can this group of misfits get to Knowhere without being killed by Ronan and Yondo or will they change their minds when they find out what the mysterious object really is and why Thanos wants it so badly?

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Just another Brett Ratner ("Rush Hour"/"X-Men: The Last Stand"/"Tower Heist") directed film I didn't like. The blockbuster sword-and-sandals epic, about the ancient mythical Greek demigod, supposedly the son of Zeus, named after the queen of heaven Hera, is watchable, fancifully staged and its fast pace makes it easy to handle, but the acting is wooden, the storytelling clunky and the incessant slaughter is less than compelling. It's loosely based on Radical Comics' Hercules by the late Steve Moore, who disapproved of this adaptation. Writers Ryan Condal and Evan Spiliotopoulos keep it simple as a mere popcorn escapist film, with no knowledge of antiquity needed.

In 358 B.C., in ancient Greece, Hercules (Dwayne Johnson) is viewed as a tormented soul, who must complete his 12 super-human labors before free of the jealous Hera's death threat and has one more to do before he's home free (we do see the legend battle the Nemean lion and slay the Lernaean hydra). Hercules is also grief-stricken over the murder of his wife and three children, but because of the rumor that he killed them the strongman is booted from Athens. The brooding Hercules finds five acolytes who believe in him and they bond together as a loyal ragtag band of mercenary warriors, fighting for gold and for one last battle to get enough loot to retire in style. 

The team includes his spin-master legendary making exaggerated storyteller nephew Iolaus (Reece Ritchie), a spear-chucking seer fond of wrongly predicting his own death (Ian McShane), the childhood friend who is a wisecracking dagger man (Rufus Sewell), the half-feral mute fierce warrior (Aksel Hennie) and a blonde Amazon with a bow and arrow (Ingrid Bolsø Berdal). The group agree to go to Thrace and fight against the marauder Rhesus (Tobias Santelmann) and his supposed centaurs, who is burning innocent villages, when recruited by the lovely Princess Ergenia (Rebecca Ferguson), who represents her ambitious dad, Lord Cotys (John Hurt). He wants his farmer subjects trained to be a great army by Hercules to fight with the legend against Rhesus' army. The widow Ergenia is protective of her young wide-eyed son Arius (Isaac Andrews), whom she expects to be the future king of Thrace and is distant from the venal King Eurystheus (Joseph Fiennes), of Athens, and his secret conniving partner, her power hungry dad.

There are several twists in the story after the Hercules victory over Rhesus, but the battle scenes are mostly forgettable as the pic seems best when it shoots for dumb sight gags to entertain the masses with its unpretentious but shallow storytelling. All the disposable revisionist mythological film did for me was make me not care about the legend of Hercules. And, in the end, all I can say about this misfire is--“Fucking centaurs,” please give me no more Hercules films this year.

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"Surprisingly good. Dialog could use some work, but great action scenes and comedy. It knows what it's going for, and hits the spot."

Watch Hercules Online. In Greek mythology, Heracles was the product of Zeus getting his Mt. Olympus freak on with a mortal woman. Heracles was named to honor his philandering daddy’s angry wife, Hera, but her vengeance had dire consequences for the future hero. Hera drove him insane, at which point Heracles murdered his wife and children. After regaining his sanity and realizing the horrible nature of his crime, Heracles accepts as penance the famous labors most of us know about from high school English class. These included defeating the Nemean Lion, the hydra and the Erymanthian boar.

This was the legend I expected from Brett Ratner’s “Hercules.” Instead, I and the 12 other people who showed up for last night’s screening were treated to yet another comic book adaptation by studios desperate to hang on to its stereotypical core market of men in states of arrested development. I know nothing about the Radical Comics series upon which this is based, but I sincerely hope it is not the half-assed, warmed over “300” rip-off its cinematic counterpart is. Watching “Hercules,” you can feel your intelligence being insulted in almost every frame.

Watch Hercules 2014 Online. Shorn of the graphic violence and blatant homoeroticism that made “300” gore-soaked camp, the PG-13 rated “Hercules” is left with poorly rendered CGI battles and a fear of any semblance of darkness. There’s also the potentially interesting idea of how one man’s legend can shape the minds and actions of many, but “Hercules” is afraid of that too. For all its violence, “Hercules” coddles you, protecting you from any kind of complex or sad emotion the material might inspire. It’s so afraid of upsetting you that it can’t even give its most interesting character the noble death it so beautifully sets up for him. Even the character is pissed off about this.

Ratner dispatches with the labors in the pre-credits sequence of the film, turning them into a story told by Hercules’ nephew Iolaus (Reece Ritchie). Iolaus is being held hostage by a band of pirates who suspend him over a long, jagged spear of rock aimed at his nether regions. “Hercules” posits that the legends of its titular hero have the power of scaring men into submission, but these pirates temporarily prove the exception. “That’s bulls—t,” one of the pirates exclaims after hearing of the Nemean lion.

Of course, Hercules (Dwayne Johnson) makes his entrance wrapped in the lion’s hide. Ratner shoots this as if Johnson were on the runway of a fashion show at Ernest Hemingway’s house. Clad in fur and covered in smoke, Hercules announces his new role as mercenary for anyone willing to pay his price. He is joined by a crew of people including Amphiaraus the Oracle (Ian McShane) and an Amazonian archer (Ingrid Bolsø Berdal) who should have “Katniss Everdeen” tattooed across her beautiful forehead.

After dispatching the pirates and saving his nephew from a stalagmite-like enema, Hercules’ next job for hire is at the behest of Lord Cotys (John Hurt, putting a much hammier spin on his "Snowpiercer" character). Cotys wants to stop the terrible reign of Rhesus (Tobias Santelmann), a leader who supposedly possesses otherworldly powers of persuasion and an animal-like appearance that, in a case of missed opportunity, is not that of a monkey. Hercules complains that Cotys’ army is far too untalented to face Rhesus, but a payment worth twice Hercules’ weight in gold changes Hercules’ mind. Cue numerous scenes of The Rock as Hercules as General Patton, speechifying and pacing before leading his hapless motley  crew of an army into war.

Mythological heroes have undergone numerous changes throughout history, so there’s barely a shred of justification in complaining about how far away a story strays from its most well-known incarnation. However, I must grasp that shred to illustrate my point about how depressingly infantile “Hercules” is. Out of nowhere, Ratner and his editors suddenly insert bloody images of children and women being murdered. This flashback is so poorly edited that it’s never clear what’s happening, though it ends with a direct rip-off of Kubrick’s "The Shining."

Since “Hercules” had strayed so far from the legend, I was surprised the film would include Hera’s horrific revenge on Hercules’ family. These images torture Hercules whenever they appear, threatening to give the character some complexity. To Johnson’s credit, he attempts to play these moments in agonized fashion—he believes he has murdered his family. It’s all for naught: Screenwriters Ryan Condal and Evan Spiliotopoulos work out an absurd loophole of absolution, pinning the murders on a three-headed dog instead of Hercules. The three-headed dog also turns out to be a hallucination; it’s actually three separate dogs. Responding to this development, the guy behind me at the theater let out a fierce snore. I envied him.

Like Arnold Schwarzenegger before him, Dwayne Johnson was born to play Hercules. Like Ah-nuld, he’s muscular and not without an onscreen chemistry that’s at times perfectly mythological. And Johnson is a welcome change from the Nordic ideal mythical movies usually employ. It’s too bad that Hercules 2014 comes off as a supporting character in his own story. The armies do most of the fighting, and when there’s quiet, Johnson has to share the screen with his team. The movie is stolen by McShane’s oracle, who is the recipient of the aforementioned noble near-death scene, and Tydeus (Aksel Hennie), a warrior so scarred by violence that he is more animal than human. Tydeus’ backstory, which “Hercules” only hints at, is far more interesting than anything we’re following in the present.

The CGI is absolute garbage, and Dante Spinotti’s cinematography is depicted as a muddy mess through the 3D glasses. Yet, there’s one moment that not only proves how little the filmmakers gave a damn but also saves this film from the no-star review it truly deserves. One of the villains is hit by the gigantic head of a statue of Hera that crumbles when Hercules pulls it down. The camera gives us a great look at the impact which, had physics been consulted, would have resulted in a juicy, delicious splatter. Instead, the villain not only remains intact after impact, he also rides the head off a cliff into oblivion. I laughed so hard I woke up the guy behind me. He was not happy.

Hercules 2014 Movie Does A Great Impression

Generally, Hercules "the Rock" does a great impression, but nor is it a piece of garbage. With a little lighter mood and without prejudices can and have fun!

Watch Hercules Online. The first shock came in the introduction of the film when the labors of Hercules announced and played very quickly giving the authority based on the continuity of fiction with new stories.

The truth is that I do not remember to have ever seen a good transfer of this famous ancient Greek myth in cinema. The latest fad is to embody Hercules wrestlers wrestling as the recent Hercules Reborn (John Hennigan). In which case the notification that the new film will be played by Dwayne Johnson (popular wrestler and he's wrestling) fears were exacerbated.

So what are the pros and cons? Very positive impression left by good cinematography, especially in panoramic shots with the army to emerge in all its splendor. The digital effects and 3d is also very well designed and inevitably give a taste of videogame but fits perfectly with the aesthetic and the final result. In less now is definitely the flat acting Johnson. Although they try to "penetrate" the hero the result in my opinion is very moderate. Also in the comic piece of film there are several awkward as funny quotes show that roughly written just to exist. In this scenario there are various twists course without causing particular excitement.

How many of you after reading about a new movie about Hercules with Dwayne Johnson as the protagonist were dismayed to find himself in front of a nobody like Kellan Lutz as the hero more cinematic mythology of Ancient Greece? Do not worry, Hercules 2014 - The Warrior will be released in almost all over the world on July 25, while in our country it will be the movie event of August, since the release is scheduled for August 13.

because it is not the same movie. We got to talking (male) at the time of Hercules - The legend begins, released with great fanfare last February and resoundingly rejected by the public at the box office, but do not fear those who love epic adventures and action-packed, because this Hercules - The Warrior, one of the hottest titles of the summer film 2014, it is quite another thing to start by director Brett Ratner already author of excellent films such as X-Men - The Last Stand until you get to a respectable cast drove right by Dwayne Johnson and enriched by the presence of Joseph Fiennes, Ian McShane, Rufus Sewell, John Hurt and Joe Anderson, the beautiful Rebecca Ferguson and Ingrid Berdal bOLSO, the wrestler Tamina Snuka and hear-hear the onset of the film supermodels Barbara Palvin Irina Shayk and to the delight of the male audience the main receptor of this type of product.

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This is Hercules as hired warrior, Herc the Merc, an incredible Greek hulk whose “half-man, half-god” story is declaimed, loudly, to one and all by his brash press-agent of a nephew, Iolaus

Watch Hercules 2014 Online :  This is the world of “Hercules,” a B-movie with a hint of “300-Lite” about it. Directed by Brett “I almost ended the X-Men” Ratner and starring Dwayne “Why didn’t they cast me in this ten years ago?” Johnson, it’s a brief, violent and narrowly-focused tale of a Hercules utterly removed from myth.

Iolaus weaves tales of Herc’s 12 labors, his battles with the hydra and gigantic boars and lions. This impresses those who would hire Hercules and his mercenary sidekicks. And theoretically, at least, it intimidates his enemies. Who wants to fight a fellow whom Zeus sired, a man who cannot be killed?

Regarding those “sidekicks” — news to me, too. “In legend, you fight alone,” those meeting the man complain. Herc likes to keep his saga single-handed, for PR sake. But in this tale of the man mountain, he has wily knife-thrower Autolycus (Rufus Sewell), Amazon archer Atalanta (Ingrid Bolsø Berdal), the mute berserker Tydeus (Aksel Hennie) and wizened spear-wielding seer Amphiaraus (Ian McShane) as his crew.

When the King of Thrace (John Hurt) and his hot daughter-in-law (Rebecca Ferguson) need help fighting a warlord, they offer to pay Hercules “twice your weight in gold.”

To which Autolycus cracks, “Eat up.”

The rapists and pillagers confronting Thrace are numerous, tall, bald and painted green.

Watch Hercules Online : “Look at me,” Hercules barks. “Do I look afraid?” Johnson leaves his eyebrow arching bit behind for this action epic, and that’s a pity. The humor is what works best, and most of the funny bits go to McShane, playing a seer who knows when he’s supposed to die, and how — or thinks he knows — and Sewell, every bit McShane’s match in landing a punchline.

What Ratner has turned out here is a myth with all the mythology stripped from it. This 98 minute film has three decent battles in it, and a long training sequence where the Thracians are prepared for battle. Why make a Hercules movie about that?

He’s haunted by the deaths of his family, tormented by visions of the three-headed dog from Hades. Yes, they tell you it’s Cerberus, just in case you slept through that class in school.

Joseph Fiennes shows up as the King of Athens, along with a klatch of character players you’ll recognize. The production team does a swell job of recreating the ancient citadels of the fourth century, B.C.E.

But for all the fun these folks could have had with Hercules maintaining the supernatural assistance facade, or denying it as his handlers gild his lily testifying that it’s true, the movie is content to just go through the motions. Ratner doesn’t so much as ask his actors to walk and talk at the same time. Perhaps the digitally-augmented sets demanded it, but players standing still, staring into each other’s eyes and delivering pep talks, trash talk, threats and jokes to each other is dull and stagy — bad theater.

And Johnson, in a role he was buffed up to play, seems more inclined to go through the motions than his colleagues. At 42, he’s still got the bulk, but the grace of movement is gone, along with the eagerness, the twinkle in the eye and the cocked-eyebrow that always let us know he was in on the joke. “Hercules” was plainly just a paycheck, repayment for all those years in the gym, and in every scene, Johnson reminds us of that.

MPAA Rating: PG-13 for epic battle sequences, violence, suggestive comments, brief strong language and partial nudity

Cast: Dwayne Johnson, Ian McShane, Rufus Sewell, Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, John Hurt, Joseph Fiennes

Credits: Directed by Brett Ratner, written by Ryan Condal and Evan Spiliotopoulos. A Paramount MGM release.

Running time: 1:38

Cover Story The Drive and Despair of The Rock

COVER STORY The Drive (and Despair) of The Rock (Hercules 2014 Super-actor)

You'll have to say one thing for Brett Ratner's production of Hercules: This movie has a sense of proportion. Running just over 90 minutes, the movie is often clunky, but at least it's fast and unpretentious. And its likable star, Dwayne Johnson, manages to murder legions without ever seeming sadistic. Less violent than 300, less compelling than Gladiator, this new addition to the sword-and-sandals genre seems likely to please the fanboy audience and stir up some impressive box-office numbers.

Watch Hercules Online Streaming : The film begins by recounting the legend of Hercules, with snippets of his famous 12 labors. But this is not the Steve Reeves version of the tale. Johnson's Hercules (as envisioned by comic book author Steve Moore) is a flawed hero. Bereft over the murders of his wife and children, Hercules has joined up with a band of loyal comrades who will basically sell their services to the highest bidder. In other words, they're mercenaries. But you can bet it won't be too long before Hercules rediscovers a noble purpose. That happens when he is enlisted by the lovely daughter of the lord of Thrace to save her kingdom from civil war. Let the mayhem begin.

The story has a few twists up its sleeve, as heroes turn out to be treacherous and villains are more complex than first appearances suggest. There's just enough plot to keep the movie lurching forward, and there are plenty of battle scenes to delight connoisseurs of carnage. (The movie's PG-13 rating seems fairly lenient.) One problem with these battle scenes is the frenetic editing, an unfortunate staple of contemporary action pictures. On the positive side, the sets (by production designer Jean-Vincent Puzos, who also designed one of Ratner's favorite movies, Amour) are impressive, and the crowd scenes, even if enhanced by CGI, stir happy memories of films like Spartacus and Ben-Hur.

Watch Hercules Online : The classy cast also elevates the picture. Ian McShane gives a droll performance as a soothsayer who's always surviving predictions of his own death. John Hurt is working in the glorious tradition of Claude Rains in The Adventures of Robin Hood while Joseph Fiennes is doing a Basil Rathbone as his venal confederate. As the one woman in the troupe of mercenaries, Ingrid Bolso Berdal wields a mean bow and arrow. Tobias Santelmann (star of the Norwegian Oscar nominee Kon-Tiki) has an imposing presence as Hercules' antagonist-turned-ally.

Some of these actors have won awards, but a trip to the dais is not likely to be in the future for our star. Still, Johnson plays his role with good humor and more conviction than Steve Reeves could ever muster. When he finally breaks free of his chains and bellows, “I am Hercules 2014,” the audience responds with just the right degree of childish glee.

There are some neat 3-D effects, but as with so many recent 3-D offerings, the format doesn't seem absolutely essential. The cinematography by Ratner's frequent collaborator Dante Spinotti is vibrant, and the musical score by Fernando Velazquez is rousing. Most important, the pacing is snappy. It may sound like a backhanded compliment to praise this sometimes cheesy movie for never taking itself too seriously, but in a summer of bloated spectacles, this modesty should not be underestimated. 

Production: Paramount, MGM, Flynn Pictures

Cast: Dwayne Johnson, Ian McShane, John Hurt, Rufus Sewell, Joseph Fiennes, Tobias Santelmann, Ingrid Bolso Berdal, Peter Mullan, Rebecca Ferguson

Director: Brett Ratner
Screenwriters: Ryan J. Condal, Evan Spiliotopoulos; based on the graphic novel by Steve Moore
Producers: Brett Ratner, Beau Flynn, Barry Levine
Executive producers: Peter Berg, Sarah Aubrey, Ross Fanger, Jesse Berger
Director of photography: Dante Spinotti
Production designer: Jean-Vincent Puzos
Costume designer: Jany Temime
Editors: Mark Helfrich, Julia Wong
Music: Fernando Velazquez Rated PG-13, 98 minutes

Hercules 2014 is out to entertain you

Plot

Having completed all (but one) of his legendary labours and built up a mythical reputation as a superhuman demi-god, Hercules (Johnson) works as a roving mercenary alongside a motley bunch of merry men (and one woman). But when is hired by Lord Cotys of Thrace (Hurt) to take on an army of deadly marauders, things get problematic.

Review
Watch Hercules Online Putlocker : Based on the graphic novel by Steve Moore, Brett Ratner’s Hercules (boy, we love typing those three words) aims to show us the real Greek hero: the man rather than the demi-god, the truth rather than the legend. Yet this is no grim, gritty, ‘Nolanized’ rethink of the popular ancient myth. Of course it isn’t. This is Brett Ratner’s Hercules. And you know what? It’s way more fun than shovelling divine-cattle dung.

Speaking of which, it begins with, and pivots around, a great in-joke. Any scene featuring an obviously CG monster (hydra, giant boar, burly lion) is revealed as being bullshit. Made-up. As any audience member would expect from watching The Rock take on an obviously CG monster. It’s a neat, expectation-undercutting visual trick that we’re pretty sure is deliberate. Those Twelve Labours? Flagrantly embellished, to increase our hero’s currency as a hired sword (well, club). Meanwhile, until the final act at least (and aside from the occasional wide- or aerial shot), Hercules’ battles are impressively practical: good ol’ fashioned human-on-human rough-housing with only minor digital augmentation. Ratner keeps it real. (Well, mostly.)

Watch Hercules 2014 Online : Despite loping around in the Steve Reeves-superplus form of Dwayne Johnson, this Hercules ain’t Olympian. He couldn’t achieve nearly as much without his pals, a Mythnificent Seven (minus one), if you will. And they’re a fun crew to hang with, including Rufus Sewell’s knife-throwing Autolycus and his dry asides; Ingrid Bolsø Berdal’s Amazon archeress Atalanta — aka Legolass; and Ian McShane serving up succulent ham on a giant-spear kebab as the amusingly precognitive old-timer Amphiaraus. There is also Aksel Hennie from Headhunters as a mute berserker. He’s not The Rock, but he rocks.

The surprising thing is that Johnson himself is the dourest of this lot, having to suffer throughout those ever-inevitable inner demons. It’s a shame we’re not seeing him do the loud, braggart version of Hercules who was so much fun in Jason And The Argonauts. Still, Ratner’s a savvy enough showman to gift him a few brilliant zingers. Our favourite? “Fucking centaurs.”

Pushing the 12A rating as far as it can, this is brisk, brutal, silly (in a good way) pulp entertainment, whose clunky exposition and continuity errors can be easily forgiven. Harder to swallow is the way it lets its own central conceit down during a blandly OTT and muscle-headed final blast. Still, while it may not be Conan The Barbarian (1982), it’s certainly far superior to Conan The Barbarian (2011).

Verdict

With Hercules, Brett Ratner and Dwayne Johnson are out to entertain you — no more, no less. And that is just what they do.