Lightdeossk Captivating movie !

CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Derrick Gibbons An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Logan By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

mark.waltz 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.

Aaron1375 Once again Hercules is back to do what he does in nearly every movie! This time Hercules is played by Reg Park, who just is not quite as good in the role as Steve Reeves was. He looks okay, but something about him is just off. This is the fifth film in the series following Hercules, Hercules Unchained, Goliath and the Dragon and Hercules vs the Hydra. The two films before this one featured two other guys in the role of Hercules; however, Reg Park would make one more Hercules film besides this one. There are a whole lot of Hercules films that were released during this time and there would be several more films after this one as well. I only saw the first and second film before this one so I do now that the first and second film do follow each other; however, I am not sure how this one follows the previous two films. Hercules has a son at this point, but due to the very confusing way this film opened up I literally did not realize it was his son until the thing was nearly over when they were helping people out of the pit. Of course, the fact the opening of this movie was so confusing may point out that it did follow the previous film and that one would of had to seen it to understand what the heck is going on! Hercules Unchained was a bit confusing too, until I watched the original Hercules film.The story is very cluttered, especially at the beginning. All I know is that there is a brawl in a bar and Hercules and his buddies go riding and there is something with the sun before they are in a throne room where a man who is king or something declares that he is going to try and thwart some sort of threat against Greece. Hercules trashes his throne and then they are off on an adventure where Hercules ends up on a piece of driftwood before fighting a monster that turns into several monsters and saves a girl who takes him to Atlantis where he is drinking with another evil queen. Thankfully, he seems to have learned his lesson and does not drink the tainted wine and he has to save the people from a rock that a leper guy lectures Hercules about before being vaporized and there is kind of a volcanic finish as Hercules does not get a really cool battle to end this one.This made for a good episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000, though watching this Hercules films, they all kind of do things the same way. They riffed three true Hercules films during the shows initial run as they did this one and the first two Hercules films. They also riffed Hercules Against the Moon Men, but that was not a true Hercules film, believe it or not. It was part of a series called the Maciste series, though my guess is kind of an Italian version of Hercules. There were 17 or so Hercules films and several more of the Maciste films and there were others that featured a large muscular guy that was a Hercules type hero. Suffice to say, there was a whole lot of Hercules type films back in the day! They made for some good material for the gang of MST3K.So, this film was just not quite as good as the first two films. Both of those films seemed a bit better quality than this one. Reg Park just did not seem as good in the role of Hercules as Reeves did, but not placing the blame squarely on his broad shoulders. No, the plot was kind of a mess, but as I said that may be due to the fact one needs to watch this series of film in the order presented. Still, a lot of what they were doing in Atlantis was perplexing and it had nothing to do with the strange opening that may or may not have required additional viewing. Also, if you are going to have Hercules in your film, he should figure more in the end of the film rather than just moving a rock or two. He should be involved in a battle, in this film the best battle of the flick was when he fought Proteus at nearly the beginning of the film.

bkoganbing Some rumors about a distant land with terrible weapons of mass destruction arouse all the kings of the various Grecian city states. Hercules sets sail with a woman whom he rescued from the sea who confirms them and brings her back home.British body builder Reg Park is the legendary Hercules in this film and he brings the young maiden back to Atlantis where her mother the evil queen rules her domain with some interesting brain washing techniques developed years ahead of time. In order to keep Atlantis's population growing they also abduct women from faraway places, hence the title Hercules And The Captive Women.Fay Spain plays the Queen of Atlantis and she looks like she would rather be somewhere else, but to cover it up, chews enough scenery for about three sets. No giving this story away, you all know what happened to Atlantis.

dbdumonteil ...why Atlantis disappeared! Although Hercules often calls upon his Father ,Zeus -note that his son never invokes his granddad-,this is as far from Greek mythology as it can be."The famous Four" best describes the plot: Hercules ,his son,Androcles (a Roman slave handed over to lions then granted an imperial pardon ,what is he doing here?) and a dwarf feel that Grece is in jeopardy.This is the beginning of an "epic" story which includes a rubber monster,a wicked queen (Antinea of course ,see one of the numerous versions of Pierre Benoit's " L'Atlantide" ),the ancestors of the clones (unless it predates Hitler's Aryan supermen),the perils of atomic radiations (?) The first scene is an interminable free-for-all in which Hercules,who is quietly enjoying his meal ,does not interfere ("help us dad!"screams his son) .Some not-so-bad scenes show a strange Androcles wandering in the queen's palace .It's rather silly,but it's entertaining if you do not ask too much.