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

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

Read our 'Hercules' review and find out if director Brett Ratner's 2014 swords and sandals movie (starring Dwayne Johnson) is a fun summer blockbuster.

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 called upon by Princess

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 

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 called upon by Princess