Hellen
I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much
Animenter
There are women in the film, but none has anything you could call a personality.
Borserie
it is finally so absorbing because it plays like a lyrical road odyssey that’s also a detective story.
lemon_magic
First of all, am I the only one who thought that the grey chin spinach they pasted on Vadis' face made him look way too much like Abraham Lincoln? I found it extremely distracting. Vadis is a handsome guy, with a nicely sculpted physique, although he does seem preoccupied and glum in most of his scenes.( Or maybe that's the beard.) But the beard absolutely pulls the focus from where it should be - his eyes and cheekbones - and makes his mouth and jaw fade away. Bad costuming choice. Second, the plot is your standard drunkard's walk/generic peplum , where things happen just because the writers didn't really know what to do next, because it had all been done to death. The dialog follows suit, although how much is this is the fault of the dubbing is hard to say. The stunts and fight scenes are staged fairly well, and are the real reason to watch the film.(Assuming you want to watch it at all) The acting is...serviceable. No one stinks on ice or anything, or looks as if they are reading from a teleprompter or cue cards. And the blocking and stage business works as well as you might expect.I assume the actor playing the comic relief has built a career doing this kind of thing. He's not funny at all (at least not that way he's dubbed), but he's mildly likable at least. There's no way a movie like this could go without comic relief, so they might as well use this guy. Doesn't mean I have to like it, or him. In short, this is another Hercules (or Argoles) movie. If that's how you want to fill your leisure viewing, well, here ya go. For what it's worth, it's not the worst one in the genre (that would be "The Loves Of Hercules" with a wildly miscast Mickey Hargetay), but not even as good as "Hercules vs the Moon Men.".
Leofwine_draca
HERCULES THE INVINCIBLE is a low budget sword and sandal adventure for Dan Vadis, the good-looking muscleman with limited acting ability. He isn't one of my favourites of the peplum genre but he certainly gets a lot of screen time here and the plot seems to lurch from one strong-man heroic act to the next. The film was dubbed and re-edited before release in the States as THE SONS OF HERCULES IN THE LAND OF DARKNESS. A strongman goes on a perilous quest when an evil queen takes over the kingdom. There are fights with lions, bears and dragons, alongside battles with mounted soldiers. Expect rivers of lava, collapsing kingdoms, falling bridges, and the usual bar-bending. A pity about the extremely lame comic relief sidekick, but then you can't have everything. This isn't one of the best of its type, but it's good for a laugh regardless.
Rainey Dawn
Right off the bat I have to say this is not about Hercules but about the SON OF Hercules Ercole/Argolese. Most likely "son of" refers to a follower of Hercules. Like father, like son - Argolese is like his "father" so I guess it is a Hercules movie in a way.This one does have some light comedy in it - including the man in the bear suit scenes. Babar gives us some comical lines and looks - the real comic relief of the film.Not only does this peplum action-adventure "Hercules" film give us some light comedy, it is a fantasy film since we have a witch and a dragon. It does feel like a Dungeons and Dragons movie in it's way. And it has all the makings for a film that I enjoy. This one might be my favorite "Hercules" film from the 60s series.6/10
DarthBill
Hercules (Dan Vadis, who also played the role in "The Triumph of Hercules") saves a beautiful princess and, as a reward, he is offered her hand in marriage (which is great for both of them given that they're both nice people) but is also asked to help the royal family against their enemies. Next thing you know Herc is up to his neck in trouble rescuing his fiancé's entire people from an evil subterranean empire. An okay entry in the sword & sandal genre with some decent atmosphere (and some stock footage from the first Steve Reeves Hercules film), Dan Vadis is perhaps the film's greatest asset in addition to the beautiful women. Some may not like him for not being Steve Reeves or Reg Park, but the very nimble and agile lightning bruiser Vadis brings a Burt Lancaster level of energy to what would have otherwise been some fairly generic fight scenes, and he looks quite larger than life battling his way through an army of henchmen. And while he may have had to kill a lion (which looks pretty good since it really is Vadis wrestling the lion) he is nice enough to save a bear that got in his way. Weirdly enough, when the film came out in America it was re-dubbed as "Son of Hercules in the Land of Darkness" with Herc being changed to Argolese, son of the Herc. An unusual choice to say the least.
