Should you see it? Only if you're a huge fan of Danning or Lou Ferrigno.
This film started as a way to capitalize on "Conan the Barbarian," but using Lou Ferrigno as Hercules meant trying to get his "Incredible Hulk" TV audience, so all the violence and sex was removed from the script. What we're left with is Lou as a baby repeating the Moses in a basket on the Nile, Lou throwing a bear into the sky to make a constellation, Lou and a sword pulled from a stone as in Arthurian legend, Lou fighting with what looks like Star Wars light sabre... and two women wrestling. Everyone's dubbed, even if they speak English. The effects are all dated. The plot devolves into a "Seven Samurai" remake with Lou, Sybil Danning and five guys no one can remember.
It was bad, but I do remember enjoying it.
ReplyDeleteGreetings. This time you have spliced 2 movies together :HERCULES directed by Luigi Cozzi and THE 7 MAGNIFICENT GLADIATORS by Bruno Mattei (produced by Cannon). Both were released in 1983 and both starred Ferrigno and Danning.
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