Hades: [last lines, as the film closes] What do you say? It's happy ending time. Everybody's got a little taste of something but me. I've got nothing. I'm here with nothing. Anybody listening?! It's ...

Everything seemed to imply that Brett Ratner's Dwayne Johnson starring Hercules would be a disaster—a terrible movie that flops at the box office—and while it could still crash and burn with audiences ...