The Legend of Hercules **
Dir: Renny
Harlin. With: Kellan Lutz, Scott Adkins, Gaia Weiss. 99 mins. Cert: 12A.
Coming soon: The Rock
playing Zeus’s son in un film de Brett
Ratner. Now showing: this lightweight yet not unlikable spoiler from Cliffhanger’s Renny Harlin, which
pitches all its mythology around the level of the average One Tree Hill episode. Buff Kellan Lutz – Twilight’s third vampire
from the left, here dipped in Bisto – is exiled to Egypt for canoodling with
the bodacious Hebe, Princess of Crete (Gaia Weiss); once he’s taken captive, we
essentially get a teenybop Gladiator,
with Kenneth Cranham an obvious Oliver Reed substitute. Harlin keeps it
commendably brisk, and insists upon the primacy of flesh-and-blood performers
duking it out on non-virtual sets, perhaps because his CGI is makeshift at
best. Conceived for 3D, yet screening mostly in twod, no-one seems to have high
hopes for it – though it might well help to pass a wet afternoon when it shows
up on Netflix fifteen minutes from now.
The Legend of Hercules is now playing in cinemas nationwide.
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