derekblake

I have to admit that I did not watch the whole movie, I could not stand it any longer and after twenty minutes we switched it off. Is this what they spend my money on from the national lottery? I'll be frank, I genuinely could have done a better job with my HD camcorder, it must have had a budget of Oh, say a couple of hundred Scottish pounds. A good half of what we watched was a blank black screen, and the rest was so dark no one could see what was going on, which was good because nothing was going on. If you want a cure for insomnia then watch this film, otherwise forget it.

I was bored.

Very bored

Not even the naked women in the eventual opening sequence (after watching a dot on a black screen for about five minutes, could eject life into this corpse of a movie.

Well what can I say about this made for TV movie? The acting was not bad, although some of the support actors would have had trouble getting into am-dram productions. the story line was the same old 'quest' story, searching for that elusive artifact. One good point was a baddie that actually admits his mistake and works with the Indiana Jones type hero to save the world. However;... . . In my opinion there should be an international law (UN help please) that anyone other than script writers with a physics degree, should be banned from writing sci-fi scripts/teleplays. The worst thing about this movie was the total disregard for science. the continuity in the film is totally missing. In the first part of the film a cave collapses, seemingly covering the floor of the enormous cavern. Later the same cave appears again, but there is no sign of the cave-in and the nice path remains clear of rubble. Nice clean-up Sweden. Then there is the quick rescue when a helicopter crashes in Sweden and a team is sent out from Vienna (that's Austria, at least a thousand miles away) and the rescue team find them and get them back within the hour. That's some helicopter they have. No wonder most Americans don't have a clue about geography.

Personally I was not impressed with this movie, certainly not as good as the first movie, but then squeals that are as good or better than the original are rare. I found the storyline quite weak and the dialogue hard to hear over the too loud mood music, editors never seem to learn this fact. The SFX were OK but nothing breath-taking, and the acting was lack-lustre. In saying all this I enjoyed the movie and would recommend it as a easy-to-watch piece of entertainment, with a bucket of popcorn a cup of coke/coffee and your Kindle to read to stop you getting bored. Someone to wake you up for the exciting bits would also be an advantage.