Dilutedthought1 While not the greatest creature feature i've come across it's still very entertaining. If your tastes lies high quality production, michael bay, type movies you won't enjoy this. If you enjoy great story telling fantastic mind blowing content, you won't enjoy this. If your looking for a fun b-movie with a wicked looking creature, cheesy dialog and splashes of blood then i suggest you give this a chance. Its better than almost anything SyFy is making these days. Funny, considering i saw this when SyFy was still SciFi. For lovers of B-Movies and Monsters!

bluemagus I've got a bit of history with the SciFi original movies, I used to watch them all the time whenever there was absolutely nothing on TV, and nine times out of ten that was the case. But I saw previews for this movie and said to myself "that looks interesting, I think I'll watch it." I think the SciFi channel(now re-titled SyFy and they're constantly ridiculed for it)has a lot of problems with their original movies. Whenever they have to create an original idea, well you get stuff like Dark Relic, Riverworld, Ice Spiders etc. But then there are movies like The Wraiths of Roanoke, which is pretty damn good if you ask me, Abominable, which I regard as one of the best Bigfoot movies ever even if the Monster looks goofy. Minotaur if you ask me is one of the HIGHLY superior original movies. It does move a little too fast in the beginning and it's not really all that intriguing but when you have Tony Todd play a villain things always get more interesting. The characters in this movie are all likable to some extent, well okay maybe not the screamer girl but to her credit she does have a Lesbian scene for what it's worth. The story in this movie is a retelling of Thesius but done in the way a Monster movie is. That's kinda genius, sure I can talk all day about how the Minotaur from Greek Mythology doesn't look a thing like the one in the movie, in fact the movie Minotaur is more like a big ass bull with a skull face than anything, and he's supposed to be half man/half bull. But I can forgive that because the special effects the use for him are surprisingly top notch.I don't know why it has such a low score on IMDb, I'm guessing it's more critics whining about what they think it should be or something, when you get to the bare bones of this movie(if you watch it that joke is actually kinda funny) is this. It's a monster movie version of Thesius, you really can't do any better than what we have here.

Bill Shroyer Not too bad as far as sci-fi m-f-TV movies go. I must object, however, to the complaints by some critics regarding the manner in which the myth of the minotaur was changed to suit this film: If you don't think one should alter a myth to suit contemporary sensibilities, there is but one word that totally knocks that notion down: Vampires. If any myth has ever been changed to better suit a newer age, it's the vampire myth. And I don't see anyone objecting to how that's been changed so dramatically over the years. Minotaurs are no different with regard to how "inalienable" ancient myths of them go. In fact, revising myth to suit modern times is practically an _obligation_ of theater - if theater fails to speak to the audience of the day and it's not a period piece, then it isn't theater, period.

unbrokenmetal The reason why myths like the adventures of Ulysses, Hercules or Theseus survive thousands of years is simply that they are terrific stories worth telling. So quite obviously it was not a good idea from the start to skip the story of the Minotaur completely except that there is a beast and a labyrinth, too. No Athens, no King Minos, no Ariadne, no string for the way out. The script takes us instead to a demonic Crete where a rather African looking, drug inhaling high priest and his sister throw prisoners into the pit until some Northern barbarians start fighting back. The producers better would have made this a fantasy movie with a killer rat in the maze and omit all historical references to the Minotaur myth if they did not intend to use the best parts of it, anyway. Apart from that (and the annoying stupidity of the characters who hide from the beast by shouting a lot), "Minotaur" is an average action movie that deserves an average mark due to its good camera work, lights and editing, I give it that much.