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Monday, 17 November 2014

Hercules in the Maze of the Minotaur (1994)

The great Hercules spends his time ploughing his fields and ploughing his understanding wife Deianeira, but he dreams often of adventure. Luckily for him they gave him a TV series, but the fifth and final movie before it began proper is a bit of a cheat: it’s half clips-show and half new adventure. A lot of the new parts are written solely as a means to initiate flashback footage from the previous four films. (There’s a word for that and we know what it is, right, kids?) To add more insult to eye-injury, the new footage, when it decides to actually get on with it, is good, meaning viewing is time wasted and time not wasted! Curse you, half-movie!

2 bedtime stories out of 5

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