Hercules is a 2014 American 3D excitement fantasy adventure film directed by Brett Ratner, written by Ryan J. Condal and Evan Spiliotopoulos and starring Dwayne Johnson, Ian McShane, Rufus Sewell in addition to John Hurt. It is based with the graphic novel Hercules: The Thracian Wars. Distributed jointly by Paramount Design and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,[4] it was released on July 25, 2014. It is just one particular of two Hollywood-studio Hercules films released in 2014, the other being Peak Entertainment's The Legend of Hercules.
The film earned $244 million on a $100 million budget and won mixed reviews from critics, but praised the action sequences and Johnson's actors. Hercules was released on Blu-ray 3D, Blu-ray and DVD on November 4, 2014 by Paramount Home Entertainment.
Hercules is the leader of a trustworthy band of mercenaries comprising the spear-wielding prophet Amphiaraus of Argos, the knife-throwing thief Autolycus of Sparta, the feral warrior Tydeus of Thebes, the Ebay archer Atalanta of Scythia and his particular nephew storyteller Iolaus of Athens. Hercules is said to be the demigod son of Zeus, who completed that this legendary Twelve Labors, only to make betrayed by Hera who drove them insane and caused him to hard his wife Megara and their young children during a visit to King Eurystheus. Throughout the film, it is no clearly established that Hercules is particularly the son of Zeus, and very are skeptical of the claim whilst well as of the stories of Hercules' famous Twelve Labors. Despite this, Hercules displays unusual strength and nigh-unmatched skill in combat. Hercules is habitually haunted by the memory of some sort of deaths of his wife and girls by his hand, as well nearly as visions of Cerberus.