I enjoyed it a lot, it was a perfectly fine mindless summer popcorn action flick. However, I have a word of warning - the trailer for it is one of the most deceptive trailers of all time. In the trailers that you have seen, it shows all of these great mythical beasts that Hercules takes on and fights as part of his twelve labors. The entire trailer is based on those scenes and other magical and mythical events from the Hercules mythology. In the actual flick, all of that is in the first few minutes and moments of the movie. His nephew is telling bad guys the "legend" of Hercules to intimidate them. In the movie Hercules isn't any sort of magical figure, he isn't the son of Zeus. He is just a guy with a team of warriors that assists him to create the image of his myth and legend. None of the mythical creatures actually exists in this world, none of them.

The heart of the movie is Hercules, the man, taking on other armies and other warriors, nothing mystical or anything. The trailer totally misrepresents what the movie is about in every single way. Not not only in terms of plot, but they blatantly added special effects to shots in the trailer that aren't in the film. The glowing eyes of the enemies to make them look supernatural, not in the film. The glowing flame whip in the trailer, a normal non-glowing whip in the film.

Now if you know the source material you already know this, but I'm going to assume this is going to be a shock to most people. Again, I really enjoyed the movie once it was revealed and I "accepted" what it was actually about, but it was a pretty big shock and a twist to me.

I totally agree with the above. The trailer is so misleading it is ridiculous. Luckily I really enjoyed this "grounded" story of Hercules instead of it just being another Clash Of The Titans rehash. This twist is what really made the movie for me.

Unfortunately, the most interesting of the group bites it which would be a little disappointing with him missing from a potential sequel.

f-bomb

• The human element of the story
• Tydeus... he was the most interesting of the warriors
• The effects that brought the mythological things to reality (i.e. the centaurs actually being horsemen on the hill in the sunset, the Hydra being the helmets of the enemy, and Cerebus being the three wolves, etc.)
• Amphiaraus (Ian McShane) as the narrator

• that f-bomb that dropped out of nowhere
• Joseph Fiennes as King Eurystheus ... he was too, what's the word... Voldemorty?
• the notch on the lion-headed shields kept switching from the left to the right and back as they cut from scene to scene during the battle with Rhesus (continuity errors are my biggest pet-peeve)
• The death of Tydeus, the most interesting of the warriors
• The pour green-screen effects during the scene when the barbarian was charging at Lord Cotys and was plowed over by the chariot

the trailer, because they was foolin' y'all! It was one big stinking flourish, that actually worked.