HERCULES 2 (2025)
Zero. To. Hero. On. Steroids.
Dwayne Johnson is back as the son of Zeus, now swinging a hammer the size of a city bus and looking like he bench-presses Mount Olympus before breakfast. The Twelve Labors? Cute. This time it’s the Hydra growing hellfire heads, Stymphalian birds dropping bronze nukes, and a pissed-off Ares turning the Aegean into a lava jacuzzi.
Ryan Reynolds as Iolaus is the sarcastic sidekick we didn’t know we needed: quipping while reloading a ballista, stealing every scene he’s in. Akshay Kumar storms in as Theseus doing full Bollywood flips off minotaurs, and Gal Gadot’s Megara? She’s done playing damsel; she’s straight-up slinging lightning and breaking necks in slow-mo.
The action is pure chaos porn: coliseum-sized mechs vs. hydra, a chariot chase across a collapsing sky-bridge, and one insane sequence where The Rock surfs a tidal wave of molten gold. It’s so stupid it loops back around to genius.
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