Director: Renny Harlin
Actors: Kellan Lutz, Gaia Weiss, Scott Adkins, Roxanne McKee
Plot: The origin story of the mythical Greek hero. Betrayed by his stepfather, the King, and exiled and sold into slavery because of a forbidden love, Hercules must use his formidable powers to fight his way back to his rightful kingdom.
Disc Release Date: 19 September 2017
The included screenshots are sourced from a 1080p Blu-ray disc. Watch for 4K screenshots at a later date. The Legend of Hercules is presented on 4K UHD courtesy of Lionsgate Films with a 2160p transfer...
Both The Legend of Hercules and Conan the Barbarian 4K have received audio upgrades on 4K UHD, with both releases being given extremely effective Dolby Atmos tracks. I gave top marks to the 1080p Blu-ray's...
The 4K UHD disc ports over the minimal supplementary material detailed in our The Legend of Hercules 3D Blu-ray review. For the record, the Blu-ray disc included with this package is the combo 3D/2D version....
My The Cabin in the Woods 4K Blu-ray review mentioned how Lionsgate is seemingly randomly going through its vast catalog and upgrading certain titles for the 4K UHD format. Looking back on it now, these...
Probably even more so than with regard to Conan the Barbarian, it's hard (if not downright impossible) to recommend a film this relentlessly silly, but the 4K UHD version offers some nice if patently fake...
The Legend of Hercules hacks and slashes its way onto Ultra HD with a 2160p HEVC/.H265 encoded transfer that is truly better than the film deserves. A CG heavy affair digitally filmed with a Red Epic camera...
Lionsgate wages war on Ultra HD with The Legend of Hercules, giving us a surprisingly well-done Dolby Atmos track (that decodes into Dolby TrueHD 7.1) that would make us think that it was originally mixed...
The Supplemental Material here is the same as on the 2014 release. To check it out click HERE....
I have a confession to make. I love cheesy movies. The bigger the train wreck, the more fascinating it is to me to pick apart and dissect. Throw in a schlocky filmmaker like Renny Harland and it’s a sure...
I find it hard to think of a film that so shamelessly imitates other movies quite like The Legend of Hercules -- where the filmmakers ape the plot of films like Gladiator or Spartacus, with Hercules dropped...