Starring Manu Bennett, Steven Grives, Holly Brisley, Dimitri Baveas, Lauren Horner
Directed by Karl Zwicky
My favorite tale of Greek mythology is that of the Minotaur. It’s also the one tale of Greek mythology Hollywood can’t ever seem to do proper justice to. Is it really so hard to make a rock solid adaptation of this story? It amazes me that no enterprising producers out there have figured this out yet in this day of pandering to the tweener audience. It's about teenagers being sent down into a foreboding labyrinth to be sacrificed to a hideous half-man/half-bull monster; one handsome teen vows to end this cycle of death and succeeds in doing so with the help of the evil king's beautiful daughter.
Sure, I can see why some may scoff, what with the ultimate undoing of King Minos and his maze of Minotaurian horror involving the simple use of string, but this is a story loaded with action, adventure, horror, tragedy, and romance; and best of all the source material comes with instant name recognition and is public domain. Taylor Lautner as Theseus, running around lush Mediterranean settings in a loin cloth, romancing Vanessa Hudgens as the princess longing to escape her cruel father’s clutches and saving his fellow teens from a horrifying fate by slaying a man-bull in catacombs of Saw-quality dankness; does that not sound like a license to print money? But while the world awaits word that production has begun on Minolight, those of us looking for our Minotaur fix will just have to settle for the likes of Sinbad and the Minotaur.
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