Review – Minotaur

Imagine the classic tale of Theseus redone as a bad Alien rip-off and you’ve got this Lion’s Gate / Sci Fi Channel Original firmly in your head without even seeing it. Tony “Candyman” Todd gets his largest speaking role to date as the evil Minoan king (and speaking of political correctness, why are all the bad guys in this movie black?), but despite my firm belief that he has potential as an actor he certainly doesn’t show much of it here. Of course he isn’t given much to work with. The bulk of the script is devoted to finding excuses for a band of raggedy white people caught in the labyrinth – more cave than maze – to fall victim to the horns of the computer-animated bull monster that passes for the title creature. I wasn’t expecting much from this, but I still came away disappointed. See if desperate