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Admirable film.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties.

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.

I only saw this movie because I heard it was the worst Hercules movie ever made, or the worst movie made based on Greek mythology. Whatever the standards, this is quite bad. The biggest drawback is the special effects. I mean, that has to be the fakest looking dragon I've ever seen in my whole life. This movie fails because the buildup is so poor. Almost everything is talked about in the first ten minutes and then the plot just goes from random place to random place. There's little point in keeping up, because you're so uninvested. Many scenes just go on way too long for no reason, especially the parts with the elephants and Hercules opening the door.This film also lacks humor in every sense of the word. For all the flak I give this, I will admit that the backgrounds and sets are actually quite good. They really do come off as quite colorful. That's certainly not enough to save this. I'm used to seeing bad movies like this on MST3K, but not this time. Why didn't they ever use this on the show or even Rifftrax? Maybe they will someday. *1/2

In this peplum movie Hercules saves a king's daughter from a lion attack. The king offers him her hand in marriage if he can slay a dragon. Hercules goes off to do just that but while he is away the kingdom is over-taken by the forces of an evil queen, who takes everyone hostage to her subterranean lair below a volcano.I don't truthfully know an awful lot about the Hercules movies. It seems from what I can gather though that this one is both very typical but also pretty bad. Seemingly, the plot synopsis above is interchangeable with many of the films from the sub-genre. To be fair, I certainly didn't find this to be a good film but it has some moments. Hercules gets to fight a lion, a bear and a dinosaur-like dragon before taking on the forces of the evil queen. Unfortunately, he also has another typical feature of these types of movies - a comedy relief side-kick. I say 'unfortunately' because this character – like most of his ilk – is an appallingly tedious presence, who at no point could genuinely be classified as a relief from anything. If you take him out of the equation though then you have a moderately entertaining bit of sword and sandal nonsense. It also has a silly, cheesy theme tune which was quite amusing.

"Hercules falls for the daughter of a deposed king whose kingdom is held in thrall by an evil queen. The Queen captures our hero and orders him torn apart like a wishbone by wild elephants. He survives, and the queen falls for him, but he is true to his love. The queen's subjects rise up in arms and her realm is engulfed in a volcanic eruption. Somewhere along the way, Hercules and his chubby comic companion fight off lions, bears, and an angry dragon," according to the DVD sleeve's synopsis.Re-titled "The Land of Darkness" for US TV viewing as two parts of "The Sons of Hercules" series (with a mighty catchy theme song). A patchily-edited lion fight signals, early in the running time, that you're not in for high quality product. With his golden beard, Dan Vadis (as Ercole aka Hercules) looks a little like the lions they used, and none are too ferocious. Silly John Simons (as Babar) is Mr. Vadis' gluttonous comic sidekick, and shapely Spela Rozin (as Telca) is the attractive leading lady.* Ercole l'invincibile (3/19/64) Alvaro Mancori ~ Dan Vadis, John Simons, Spela Rozin, Carla Calo