Film review: Hercules (3 out of 5)

This article contains affiliate links. We may earn a small commission on items purchased through this article, but that does not affect our editorial judgement.

It seems a modern idea in films to deconstruct characters, turning accepted concepts on their head.

The Lone Ranger and Tonto were more like the Keystone Cops and Maleficent was definitely a different person to the evil witch we knew and hated from Sleeping Beauty.

So now we have Hercules, the son of Zeus - except that we are told the amazing stories are just that, tall tales.