It's not a subtle move to open your story with a tour guide (Oscar Isaac) leading a group around some sun-drenched ruins and telling site-specific stories from the Greek myths. (In this case, the story of how Theseus lost his dear old dad Aegus after killing the Minotaur.) But it's not a bad move, either. Nor is it bad to cast Viggo Mortensen as a well-dressed operator, gone to seed and on the lam with a pretty blonde wife (Kirsten Dunst) in tow. Everything is in place for something sordid-bordering-on-tragic, and if there are mythic reverberations when everything comes crashing down, so much the better. But if you're going to be blunt in your parallels, you'd better deliver something that approaches the visceral force of the original story. It could have been lurid and awful and fun. But with a few exceptions, this is good pulp obscured by good taste, reserve, detachment, what have you. (2014) — Matthew Lickona
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