Don't listen to the negative reviews

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

What was that? Hercules (Lou Ferrigno) is a big man, like a King-Kong. In this stupid movie struggles against mechanical creature like a centaur or a fly. He is immortal and absolutely invincible and Minos cannot stop him.Zeus (Claudio Cassinelli) looks like Saint Nicolas in this funny show. His beard is so long and white :-).Immortals from Mount Olympus lives on the moon and Daedalus is a woman in this movie.Best scene: Hercules vs. Bear Very funny movie.

I accept bad movies with low budgets. But usually, its hard to me accept really, really bad movies with a reasonable budget! And "Hercules" is flagrant case. I know that Yoran and Globus productions are a quite "B", but they are reasonable in terms of cache, actually they are pretty reasonable for the "B" universe. I think Luigi Cozzi (the director), did a mediocre movie. The plot is absurd, makes no sense! King Minos is the bad guy? King Minos? but why? And what the hell are that robots? (Ray Harryhausen rip off?)If Hercules is so strong why he makes a such a brutal effort in a sword fight against normal human beings?? Well we never know..Oh one more thing, Daedalus, evil? a woman??!!...no comments.. With that budget, many directors could been done a much better movie.. But not everything is terrible in this movie, if you are in the mood for bad movies, call friends,and watch this incredible comedy! Tremendous fun! Trust me! If if you like this one, i recommend: "Hercules 2"(Luigi Cozzi) and maybe "Battle Beyond Stars" (well, don't ask me why, but i find similarities)"

action mainly consists in retarded, muscled-up Hercules ( check the variety of facial expressions ) wrestling cheap robot toys (the garage sale variety ) in papier-mache studio sets thought to be impressive...but there is only so much one can do with $100 worth of carton boxes.Acting is slightly better than the sequel, but still the best thing is a silly "lat spread". SFX are laughable, mainly with poor film quality and awful superposition effects.Plot is paper thin. The beginning of the movie clearly mocks Conan the barbarian, and other movies. Some exteriors are shot at night in roman ruins in the Italian countryside i suppose.There are catastrophe scenes, but toy miniature cities look terribly fake and guards battling Hercules look like 60yo out of shape from a nursing home.Pretty women in scant dresses are a plus, but not enough to save this amateurish C grade waste of money.SFX make other tier-II Italian salad bowl movies such as L'UMANOIDE & STAR CRASH look like masterpieces.Well, considering that Ferrigno's main acting exploit consisted in impersonating a retarded green monster, wearing a whig and green espadrillas, we ought to be lenient.Watch it & forget about it.

Yes, it's awful. Mind-bendingly awful. But it's one of the most hilarious things I've ever seen, and well worth seeing for that reason, even if the hilarity is entirely unintentional (which it is). Lou Ferrigno, overdubbed and letting his pecs do most of the acting, is a riot all by himself, but it's the guys playing Zeus and King Minos that really push this thing over the edge. I defy anyone to keep a straight face when Minos points to a crappy prop robot-monster and says in his booming Shakespearean tones, "He is programmed...to destroy Hercules?" And don't even get me started on the scene where Hercules invents constellations by exploding a ratty-looking fake bear in outer space. This is so much funnier than 99% of what passes for comedy these days. See it if you haven't already. You'll have a great time.