Review – Manticore

The Sci Fi Channel strikes again. This time it’s an Army unit in Iraq that runs up against an ancient beast awakened by the local populace. The monster is cute in a computer-animated videogame kind of way. But whatever points the monster wins for the production are immediately squandered by the stereotypical treatment of journalists. Overall this is just another run-of-the-mill horror movie, which is a shame because the archaeological elements and use of a “real” mythological creature could have been done to much better effect. Mildly amusing