Hercules (2014 film)

Hercules is a 2014 American 3D action fantasy adventure film produced by Barry Levine and Beau Flynn with Peter Berg, Sarah Aubrey, Ross Fanger, and Jesse Berger serving as executive producers, directed by Brett Ratner, written by Ryan J. Condal and Evan Spiliotopoulos with music by Fernando Velzquez and starring Dwayne Johnson, Ian McShane, Rufus Sewell and John Hurt. It is based on the graphic novel Hercules The Thracian Wars. Distributed jointly by Paramount Pictures and MetroGoldwynMayer, it was released on July 25, 2014. It is one of two Hollywoodstudio Hercules films released in 2014, the other being Summit Entertainments The Legend of Hercules. The film earned 244 million on a 100 million budget. Hercules was released on Bluray 3D, Bluray and DVD on November 4, 2014 by Paramount Home Entertainment.

After finishing a recent mission and saving his nephew on the Macedonian Coast in Northern Greece in 358 BC, Hercules and his team are celebrating and drinking at a tavern when they are approached by Ergenia on behalf of her father Lord Cotys who wants Hercules to train the armies of Thrace to defend the kingdom from bloodthirsty warlord Rhesus. Hercules accepts after he and his men are offered his weight in gold, and the band is welcomed to Thrace by King Cotys and General Sitacles, leader of the Thracian army. However, Rhesus has reached the Bessi tribe in Central Thrace and Cotys insists that Hercules leads the army into battle to defend the Bessi, despite their lack of training. However, they are too late as Rhesus sorcery has turned the Bessi against the Thracians.After the Bessi are defeated, Hercules properly trains the army, then Hercules and Sitacles confront Rhesus and his soldiers on the battlefield before Mount Asticus. The Thracians force Rhesus army to retreat, but Rhesus himself rides out to confront Hercules and is defeated by him. Rhesus is taken back to Thrace as a prisoner, where he is tortured and humiliated. Hercules takes pity and stops the townfolk from throwing more objects at him, then Hercules mentions Rhesus actions of burning down villages, Rhesus tells him it was not him or his army, and tells Hercules that he has been fighting on the wrong side. Later in the hall of the palace, Rhesus has been chained up and left on display, noticing that Ergenia has taken pity to him, Hercules confronts her and finds out Rhesus was telling the truth in that he was merely retaliating against Lord Cotyss aggressive attempts to expand his kingdom, and, although Ergenia doesnt agree with his methods, she goes along with them for the sake of her son Arius, Lord Cotyss successor to the throne, who is being threatened by Cotys. ........

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