It takes awhile for this Hercules entry to get going, giving a very dull half hour to start the film. These Italian gladiator movies are a mixed bag, but they all seem to have one thing in common. An evil woman is somehow responsible for disparity out of her people or in the case of this film, her own daughter. She has sentenced the princess to death because she believes that if her daughter outlives her, their kingdom will be destroyed. So the young heroine becomes the subject of Hercules and his son's efforts to rescue her from certain death, which means fighting a horny rubber alligator and using a sling to kill the guards who are preparing to test the princess off a cliff. Reg Park takes on the role of the Greek hero in this film, which opens with very attractive credits of suppose Greek artwork which actually looks more Egyptian.
Even though the names of the Queens change from film to film, their motivations are pretty much all the same, and the characterizations are one-dimensional and without any sort of variation. The dubbing is better than normal in the print that I saw, but the film remains more chatty in its emphasis to attempt a more solid story. Lacking in action for the most part, this is deadly dull in many moments, and ultimately this leads it to be quite tedious and predictable.
Even though the names of the Queens change from film to film, their motivations are pretty much all the same, and the characterizations are one-dimensional and without any sort of variation. The dubbing is better than normal in the print that I saw, but the film remains more chatty in its emphasis to attempt a more solid story. Lacking in action for the most part, this is deadly dull in many moments, and ultimately this leads it to be quite tedious and predictable.