'Hercules': Film Review — hollywoodreporter.com

A movie based on a comic book or a graphic novel cries out for brevity, yet this year’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier is 136 minutes, while The Amazing Spider Man 2 is 142 minutes and the new Transformers runs almost three hours. THR COVER The Drive (and Despair) of The Rock You’ll have to say one thing for Brett Ratner’s production of Hercules: this movie has a sense of proportion. Running just over 90 minutes, the movie is often clunky, but at least it’s fast and unpretentious. And the likable star Dwayne Johnson manages to murder legions without ever seeming sadistic. Less violent than 300, less compelling than Gladiator, this new addition to the sword-and-sandals genre seems likely to please the fanboy audience and stir up some impressive box office numbers.

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