'Hercules' Movie Review Roundup: Critics Love The Absurd Take On Greek Myth

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 

Although Hercules wasn't quite the smash hit that I'm sure The Rock hoped for, early figures suggest that the film is on course to make a healthy profit and should solidify his status as one of Hollywood's highest paid actors.

Based on the graphic novel Hercules: The Thracian Wars, in this story Hercules has just completed his Twelve Labors. He is looking forward to an early retirement — only after one last heroic feat, of course — when he is 

He is Hercules: hear him roar. Pec-oil supplies plummet as the great muscly hero of classical antiquity arrives on the big screen, played by Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, in glistening semi-nudity. Brett Ratner's cheerfully 

(This is a Ratner film, after all.) “Hercules” is tongue-in-cheek revisionist mythology, pitched at classics students who prefer to attend their lectures stoned. “If you're going to use those herbs, Amphiaraus, at least share,” says Autolycus (Rufus