It wasn't bad, it was nice enough actually. I didn't particularly like the ending, but all in all a good enough movie.
Arrived inside the city, Amphitryon challenges the king and wins, easily too. The city of Argos was no threat and no enemy though. His wife, the queen Alcmene is not happy, she had thought she could change him once (really, girl, that never ever works), and make him more human but he only cares about wars and power.
She prays and Goddess Hera listens to her. Alcmene accepts to bear the son of Zeus, and he’ll be named Hercules.
The king sort of witnesses the end of the conception and of course he thinks his wife cheated, but there’s no man he can find. He names the baby Alcides.
Twenty years later, Alcides/Hercules and Princess Hebe love each other, but she’s to marry his brother, the first-born, the jealous guy who publicly insulted him in front of Hebe and all their parents and even took credit of Hercules’ win against a Nemean lion, thought unkillable.
Now his mother reveals the truth to him: “you are Hercules, gift of Hera, son of Zeus”, but he doesn’t believe her.
The king sends Alcides to Egypt with a small number of soldiers. Most of them die before Alcides or captain Sotiris even know anything happened. The few that remained, it seems like it’s twenty or so, fight like Romans but all soldiers die but Alcides and Sotiris who are kept alive in order to be sold.
Alcides says he’s Hercules and word is sent home that prince Alcides is dead.
The two women cry desperately.
Our two men are marked and sold for labour, but Hercules promises Sotiris they’ll be back home before the wedding in three months. They row, they fight, they kill. And together they convince their owner to go to Greece.
Alcmene tells Amphitryon about Zeus, her only ever loveer, to end his reign, and he kills her.
Hercules and Sotiris arrive in Greece to fight in their big big event. Sotiris was injured though so Hercules fights alone against six undefeated Greeks.
He wins; meanwhile Sotiris is regrouping loyal men to rally against the king and his heir.
But Hercules must accept who he is first.
Hebe wanted to kill herself but Chiron stops her and she’s reunited with Hercules.
The king and his son want them dead. They kill Sotiris’ men and wife, and to spare his son he gives them Hercules’ location.
Hercules is whipped publicly and has to watch his brother kill Chiron.
Now finally Hercules accepts Zeus and asks for his strength so he frees himself before Sotiris is killed too. He still has four divisions of men on his side to take back their kingdom.
When Hercules challenges the king, he does not accept and sends men forward.
Zeus helps Hercules and now he has lightning protruding from his sword.
Once finally against the king, he fights as a man. He is winning when his brother arrives with Hebe at knife-point. She wants to save him so she uses that knife to stab herself and maybe wound him who is behind her.
Hercules resumes his fight with Amphitryon and wins.
It seemed that Hebe died in his arms, but then we see her delivering their child, they’re a family and he’s now the king, and smiling.
Hercules - Kellan Lutz
Hebe - Gaia Weiss
King Amphitryon - Scott Adkins
Iphicles - Liam Garrigan
Sotiris - Liam McIntyre
Chiron - Rade Serbedzija
Lucius - Kenneth Granham
ITA Hercules-la leggenda ha inizio
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