Pan Samochodzik i Templariusze

The movie has absolutely nothing to do with the book other than the name itself. Another good story wasted by Netflix.

A series of books describing the adventures of Tomasz, an art historian, tracker of smugglers and thieves of national treasures. He was called Mr. Samochodzik in connection with the vehicle he drove. He inherited it from his uncle, who built a ridiculous body covering the wonderful Ferrari 410 engine and equipped this ridiculous structure with many interesting and useful inventions of his own invention. Tomasz's friends help scouts in solving puzzles. Nienacki's books are one that is read with bated breath. In addition, they develop great respect for Polish monuments and history.

Whoever made this movie made it abundantly clear that they have never read even a single Pan Samochodzik book. I cannot understand how one can transform an exciting story into such a mess of a movie. It is sadly one of the most boring movies I have had the misfortune of watching. The acting at times is terrible, and the dialogue sounds wooden.

Another disappointment is how the iconic car looks. The car has a completely different look than in the books and the movie has made some horrible choices while designing it.

If made right this movie could have been a polish version of Indiana Jones, instead it's a disappointing mess.

It's a low-budget mashup of National Treasure and Super-8 featuring plucky kids who insert themselves into a dangerous treasure hunt. Plot holes abound and everything is relatively low-stakes. The one character that gets developed has his arc telegraphed from the outset. The story is both familiar and instantly forgettable. Nevertheless the movie is affable enough, with a breezy tone, PG-13 action and feel-good resolution. It's an enjoyable enough diversion if you're prepared not to take it too seriously. The cast generally do a good job with what they're given and the pace, direction and editing are all decent.

Most of reviews here are written by disappointed 40+ Poles who are biased by the original book and a tv series that aired a half century ago.

The truth is, that if viewer has no such point of reference, meaning a pretty much everybody else, he'll get a decent movie. I especially liked the camera shots, the way they present locations in country side, castles or even communist era vehicles. There's a lot of action so it's hard to be bored.

Yes, the characters are rather shallow, rheir actiona and plot sometimes make little or no sense, bit overall I can't say that watching this movie was a waste of time.

And last, but not least, I'm 40+ Polish, who read the book and watched the original show but when I quit comparing them to this new Netflix production and put frustrations aside, I can easily rate this movie as 6/10.

I have seen many movies and tv series on Netflix platform. Some of them were great and some of them were bad but this movie is the worst movie of all time that was aired on Netflix platform. This is not a family movie or an adventure movie. Very bad acting, very bad story and disastrous ending. In addition to all of these, very bad camera that can cause trouble to your eyes. The most funny thing is that there is so called Argentinian treasure hunter who speaks natively Polish and using some traditional Spanish phrases for the audience to believe that he is from Argentina. This is a very bad copy of Indiana Jones and National Treasure series. Stay away !