WillSushyMedia This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

Neive Bellamy Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Roy Hart If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

Jemima It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

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

Chase_Witherspoon Son of the great man - Argolese (Vadis) - saves heiress Telca (Rozin) from the clutches of a fearsome bear and is granted her hand in marriage by her father the king (Sasso). Before they can marry, Argolese must recover the tooth from a dragon - which he duly does, but discovers on his return that the kingdom has been overrun by bandits and his wife-to-be, kidnapped and enslaved by the evil Queen Ella (Brown). Argolese must overcome not only the Queen, but her trusted right hand man (Clark) and his scheming daughter (Fiore) who has designs on the throne.Vadis is a behemoth (and looks like he's just performed a thousand hack squats before each take), although not as anatomically gifted as Steve Reeves or Reg Park, he still towers above the rest, dispatching men, horses, bears, boulders - he is apparently impervious to just about anything (except a pair of elephants trained to tear his limbs off). Rozin is innocent and sweet, whereas Fiore is the smouldering siren, but with a megalomaniacal streak that makes her both feisty and attractive. Me thinks Argolese, the great chastity-breaker, should re-consider his choice of damsel.If you're accustomed to the peplum genre, then this "Son of Hercules" tale will be no more, no less what you'd expect with another amiable muscleman, scantily-clad babes and the ubiquitous comedian covering all the bases adequately.

bkoganbing Hercules the Invincible finds Dan Vadis cast as the demigod son of Zeus who saves the life of a princess by slaying a couple of lions. Her father is ever so grateful, but asks him if he could do just one more little job for him, slay a dragon and yank out a back tooth which is said to be charmed. Hercules takes the contract and the dragon is summarily dispatched.But while the dragon is being slain, some nasty dudes carry off the king, the daughter, and all other able bodied folks as slaves for their queen who lives inside a hollow volcanic mountain with her subjects. All they leave behind is John Simons who then becomes Hercules's companion.Simons is about as useful to Hercules as Pancho was to the Cisco Kid. But the reason he was left behind is he's hardly a valiant types. The men of the kingdom eat the hearts of the valiant in the belief it will increase their courage. This guy will put it in the negative.The rest of the film is concerned with the rescue with Hercules battling a bear, two elephants, and the volcano itself. He proves to be quite invincible. Simons provides some nice comic relief for the audience. The big guy is stoic throughout Simons's cowardly goofiness.Peplum fans should like this one.

classicsoncall And look at that, it's another Hercules movie, though this time it's billed as Son of Hercules. I can't imagine why film makers rallied around the original Steve Reeves "Hercules" flick to spin off nearly an additional two hundred more of these beefcake bashes. I've only seen a half dozen or so myself, but they're all starting to look pretty much the same. This one's at the low end of the scale, and let's face it, the scale is pretty low to begin with.The standard stuff seems to be here - a love interest for Argolese (Dan Vadis), a wicked queen who attempts to kill him, various beasts to fight and defeat, and even a sidekick, though this time he seems more embarrassing than helpful. The casting of Babar (John Simons) seems to beg the question, 'What were they thinking?'I'm always intrigued when I see Hercules or one of his stand ins use the old speed dial to reach one of the Olympian gods. In this flick, Argolese is about to be pulled apart by elephants when he summons the heavens for help and wouldn't you know it, the chains simply break apart. I mean there wasn't even a pause to reflect on the request and build suspense.I'm sure there are better prints of the film than the one I viewed. It had some jarring jump cuts and a decidedly red hue in many scenes. It started out with a Part 1, signaling to me that perhaps it was made in a serial style format. There were even scenes of coming attractions for Part 2, however the film was spliced together in such a way that the action just continues, only to show those highlight scenes once again in due course. It all seemed quite annoying.There's really no reason to see this flick, and recommending it would be a disservice. My motivation rested simply in the fact that it was one of fifty movies packaged together under the 'Sci-Fi' collection put out by Mill Creek Entertainment/Treeline Films. The only positive worth noting is the catchy little theme song - 'There Be Sons of Hercules'.Hey, was that a real bear or a man in a bear suit?