 Critic Mordaunt Hall gave the film a negative review in "The New York Times", writing that "After a none too hopeful beginning, Richard Barthelmess's latest talking film, 'Son of the Gods,' plods its weary way through banal episodes" and that "Mr. Barthelmess is not the genius who can turn to good account the character allotted to him in this uninspired narrative".The film only survives in black and white.One reel was originally in Technicolor, but no color prints seem to have survived.