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Legend of the Lost Tomb
While excavating near the Pyramids, Dr. Leonhardt finds a small box with a map to the treasures of the Pharaoh Ramessess II. On his way to deliver this to the local authorities, he is kidnapped by his nemesis Dr. Bent. Before Bent can retrieve the papyrus map, Karen, who is Leonhardt's student assistant, and John, Leonhardt's son take the map to look for Leonhardt. They soon find that Bent is in hot pursuit and they figure that the only way to save Leonhardt is to be the first to the treasure so that they could ransom the Doctor from Bent. But Bent has other plans for all three of them.
| Release : | 1997 |
| Rating : | 4.6 |
| Studio : | Trinity Pictures, |
| Crew : | Production Design, Director of Photography, |
| Cast : | Stacy Keach Brock Pierce Kimberlee Peterson Rick Rossovich Khaled El Sawy |
| Genre : | Adventure Family TV Movie |
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The Worst Film Ever
Takes itself way too seriously
Such a frustrating disappointment
Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.
This isn't my movie but the movies of the kid because it's one of his DVDS. It's a pity that the disc doesn't include subtitles because I din't get the dialogs. Nevertheless, we had great time with this Indiana Jones / Tomb raider for kids. The young cast is sympathetic (the boy looks like a young John Cena) and Stacy Keach depicts with talent a sophisticated bad guy. But the real asset of this movie is that it has been shot live in Egypt and Cairo. Thus, you got amazing shots of the pyramids and you can feel the pulse of this great city and its inhabitants. For 2 hours you are gone in a exotic country with an ancestral culture and that's just fine.Not bad for a mere TV movie with no amazing stars from Hollywood!
I liked this movie for 3 things: the use of real locations rather than very inaccurately rendered studio sets (do you hear me, Steven Spielberg?); the use of actual modern Egyptian actors in various roles; the fact that the female ingénue was allowed to have brains and be resourceful and even save the guy once in a while. (I'm offended by the comment that called her "jiggle interest". That shows the offensive mindset of the poster here and not the movie). Even the mixing of locations mentioned by a couple of other people and the fact that archaeologists supposedly keep field journals on papyrus are worth a giggle and add to the amusement value. That's why I gave it a 5.I disliked it because of the wooden acting, some of the casting (i.e. Brock Pierce, Stacy Keach) and the stilted dialogue. Then there's the "magical" element. Due to my husband's work I know a lot of archaeologists who been digging in Egypt for decades and nothing sparkly has ever happened on any of their digs.
If not a fan of Egypt then just enjoy this yarn. If you are a visitor, or like me a very frequent visitor, enjoy the story and especially the locations. You can smell and taste the captivating this most beautiful of countries.
This Hallmark movie is clearly aimed at a juvenile audience given that its main characters are teenaged Americans at loose in Egypt. John is there for a reuniting with his archaelogist father,where he meets Karen a keen Egyptologist.They are pitted against the unscrupulous Dr Bent,played by Stacy Keach with a wobbly English accent. Bent is seeking to exploit the discovery of a map pointing to the whereabouts of the tomb of Rameses the second ,which contains the key to treasure both temporal and spiritual. The sole asset of the picture is the striking location photography around the Pyramids and Aswan,and this helps offset poor effects and wretched script development ,which trades in insulting ethnic stereotypes Poor acting and I grow weary of the characterisation of the English as villains.
