When prince Hercules learns of his real identity, he must choose to flee with his true love - Hebe, Princess of Crete - or to fulfill his destiny by overthrowing the tyrannical rule of the king and restoring peace to a land in hardship. From: IMDb.com
Directed by: Renny Harlin
Starring: Kellan Lutz, Gaia Weiss, Scott Adkins and others
It's perhaps no big surprise this movie is being the worst one out of
the series, as of yet. And that's coming from a guy who still sort of
liked the first 3 movies.
Things were already starting to go downhill very rapidly with the
fourth movie but this one takes the cake! There are not only specific
horror issues I had with this movie but standard things such as
storytelling, editing and acting were also terribly lacking for this
movie.
Guess the most annoying aspect about this movie was being its story.
You could say the movie is trying to be original by changing its
settings but simple fact remains that it just doesn't make any sense
and sort of takes away the tension, which most of the previous till
some extend still had in them. They changed the settings from a forest
to a small town this time. What's the point of having mountain men as
killers if you change the setting to an urban setting? But this hardly
was the biggest problem I had with this movie. The main premise of the
movie concerns a bunch of the mountain men trying to bust one of the
buddies out of jail. But I can tell you, the evil cannibalistic,
hillbilly, mountain men are doing a whole bunch of stuff in this movie,
except trying to get their buddy out of jail. Seriously, there are so
many needless and pointless distractions in the story, in which a whole
bunch of people are getting killed for no apparent reason. The movie
even toward its end starts to turn more into a "Saw" type of movie,
which completely came out of nowhere and served no purpose for the
story at all. And what was with the fact that there seemed to be nobody
else around in the town? There are shootings, fires and things blowing
up but none of the townsfolk ever gets outside to check it out or
bothers to call the state police. There are only a handful of
characters in this movie and they appear to be completely alone on the
world.
So the story is bad but it also got distractingly bad put together by
both its cast and crew. It's not the lowest of budget looking genre
movies but it still has some bad looking elements to it, such as its
makeup. The editing and pacing was also incredibly sloppy at times,
which definitely took me out of the movie constantly. And the
acting...Well, let me just say I don't think we'll hear anything good
from any of the actors ever again. Some people might be excited Doug
Bradley is in this, the guy who played Pinhead in the Hellraiser movies
but even in the Hellraiser movies I had problems with Bradley's acting,
especially when he was playing the human version of Pinhead, captain
Elliot Spencer. And no, he also hardly ever impresses in this movie and
as a matter of fact is being part of the reason why it at times works
out as an annoying and dragging experience. You'll most likely grow
tired of his character, very early on already, especially since he's
mostly saying and doing the same stuff over and over again in this
movie.
But is there at least any good- and decent amount of gore? Well, I
guess but it hardly makes this movie any more watchable, trust me on
this one.
It's true I most likely would normally give this movie a 4 out of 10
rating, since it's hardly the worst- and also not the worst looking
genre movie but knowing this is part 5 and this series has to stop
already I'm putting my foot down and say; no more! There is just no
excuse for this movie to take such an unimaginative, ineffective and
simplistic approach and there is absolutely no reason why you should
ever watch this movie, or why the series should produce more movies in
the future.
