We could cheat and just quote basically all of Rob Bricken’s post about Bret Ratner’s Hercules on io9 as if we made it up ourselves. But it’s actually too perfect to steal. So go read it right here. We won’t spoil any of the ‘good’ stuff there, but … really? Seriously? We agree: everything he says about Ratner is true.

We had low expectations to begin with, but if Rob’s description is even half right – and we suspect it’s more like 99.49% pure – it was even worse than we imagined.

Go there. Read away. And save your money for something else, Anything else. And while you’re at it, follow Rob on Twitter here, tell Charlie Jane Anders, editor of io9.com that this is great stuff here, and follow io9.com itself on Twitter too. We want to be io9.com when we grow up.

As for Hercules: You have been warned.