Review of Hercules 2014 Full Movie HD Yify version. "Hercules" is cheerfully ridiculous and mildly amusing. With director Brett Ratner behind the camera and Dwayne Johnson rocking the loincloth, Hercules delivers exactly as described.
Two Hercules movies in one year? Oh no, this cannot be good ... Going into this film I thought that it was going to be a total disaster given the history of director Brett Ratner (X-Men: The Last Stand, 21 and the Rush Hour trilogy). Ratner's films are usually action-packed but lack a brain. This time, I decided to go along with it. While Hercules was completely ridiculous all the way through I found parts of it to be mildly amusing. Luckily, Ratner's Hercules is far superior to the god-awful The Legend of Hercules, that opened earlier this year. Dwayne Johnson also has more brawn and acting chops than the previous Hercules played by pretty boy Kellan Lutz.
Together Ratner and Johnson create an action-packed but silly film based on the late Steve Moore's Hercules: The Thracian Wars. In the end, I had fun at times and rolled my eyes at others with Johnson's muscle-happy Hercules running around. Cue the action-packed battle scenes, cue the Goddesses, cue the computer-generated creatures and cue the egotistical Hercules running around in body paint defeating soldiers. At least I wasn't banging my head against the wall like I was with last winter's wimpy Hercules.
When we see that we are the son of a God, with extraordinary power that makes us among Gods when tales are told of our adventures. When we see we are extraordinary with no power but great ability to lead a small group mercenary to do God's work. When we are seen as a god on the battlefield but a criminal of a man at home to be framed for in the eyes of kings to slave warrior. When what we see torments us when we don't see our weaknesses as a man to make us less godly. When we see that we are a man and god who 7th good to gain favor by the God's when all we seek is good in humanity and God's to free ourselves, and unleash the strength within us that conquerors bad. When what frees us is seeing clearly in what enslaved us to gain superhuman strength and live the legend that is destined for us to live.
Hercules does not try to do anything special and for the most part, this can be considered a film that is very conventional and definitely becomes distracted from some of the ideas that it presents. For example, it tells us that Hercules is not really a demigod and the Greek gods do not even exist in this film. This is a very interesting and smart idea in my opinion if you're going to make a live-action Hercules film, but then it makes Johnson do things that simply are not human, especially in the final act. As for as the cast goes, The Rock I found to be an excellent fit as Hercules, and Ian McShane was also very good. Everyone else is fine and John Hurt played John Hurt. Action scenes were gratefully very well directed, and the film pulled off a surprising feat of being the hardest PG-13 film I think I've ever seen. Blood and scenes of Johnson blasting enemies with his club into outer space were common. There were even a few scenes showing Johnson's on-screen family dead and covered in blood (not a spoiler) the film also had a solid twist to it. Overall, Hercules is the definition of dumb fun, and that was all I expected, and my expectations were met.
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