I found this work to be highly enjoyable. In spite of the age of this work and the total lack of anything even remotely Eye-Candy qualifiable, I was able to enjoy this production.
Hercules looked like Hercules. The screenplay itself was based on (however loosely) two MUCH older plays written by Sophocles (circa 495 BCE) and Aeschylus (c. 525-456 BCE), and attempts to regale us with a Herculean tale of myth and magic.
I found it fun in spite of its age, and the story (while virtually unrecognizable from the original sources) was coherent and adventurous as it takes you from beginning to end. There wasn't anything plodding about this. It was quite entertaining. Not "rousing," but entertaining.
The story itself is fun and frothy bolstered with energetic performances, costumes so obviously new as to make you chuckle, and sets done in the same way. You'll even recognize a few stock sets used in about a hundred movies from the same era.
I've NEVER been a fan of Mario Bava's film style. His dizzying angles and in-and-out focus is nauseating. Thankfully, he left those (the most annoying of his pitiful repertoire) out of this film.
It rates a 6.3/10 from...
the Fiend :.
Hercules looked like Hercules. The screenplay itself was based on (however loosely) two MUCH older plays written by Sophocles (circa 495 BCE) and Aeschylus (c. 525-456 BCE), and attempts to regale us with a Herculean tale of myth and magic.
I found it fun in spite of its age, and the story (while virtually unrecognizable from the original sources) was coherent and adventurous as it takes you from beginning to end. There wasn't anything plodding about this. It was quite entertaining. Not "rousing," but entertaining.
The story itself is fun and frothy bolstered with energetic performances, costumes so obviously new as to make you chuckle, and sets done in the same way. You'll even recognize a few stock sets used in about a hundred movies from the same era.
I've NEVER been a fan of Mario Bava's film style. His dizzying angles and in-and-out focus is nauseating. Thankfully, he left those (the most annoying of his pitiful repertoire) out of this film.
It rates a 6.3/10 from...
the Fiend :.