YMMV / The Legend of Hercules

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• Cliché Storm: Critics roasted this film for its many similarities to 300, Gladiator, and Clash of the Titans.
• Complete Monster: King Amphitryon is 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 Gladiator Games. Amphitryon later kills his own wife after finding her praying to Hera, and has Hercules flogged in public when he rises up against him.
• Narm:
  • "TONIGHT WE FIGHT FOR OUR LIVES!" Well duh, you're soldiers... unless you're suicidal ones.
  • Alcmene making love to the wind is hard to take seriously.
  • A lot of the film's dramatic scenes are also hard to take seriously due to the acting ranging from Dull Surprise to Large Ham.
    Amphitryon: HaveyoucometobringTHEWRATHOFZEUSUPONMEHBOOOOOY?!
  • The use of gratuitous slow motion can get rather ridiculous, particularly when it's used in relatively mundane scenes like a horse jumping over a log.
• Questionable Casting: Kellan Lutz as Hercules. To be fair, it's not his first Greek Mythology beefcake role as he was Poseidon in Immortals, but any actor associated with the Twilight films (which are infamous for the wooden acting of nearly all the actors) gets this reaction.
• Special Effect Failure: 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 here.
• Tainted by the Preview: The first trailer showed Hercules as a gladiator, with gladiator armor. Cue bewilderment, since Gladiator Games were Roman, not Greek. Not helping was the fact that it looked barely related to the Hercules myths.

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