Alla ricerca dell'impero sepolto

During the 1980s, jungle adventure movies became popular again, so Italian producers decided to make a quick cash-in on the success of "Romancing the Stone", "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and such-like by sending Inca Man (Bruno Minniti) and the secretary Linda (Kelly London) on a journey through constant peril, from human sacrifice to piranhas, from poisoned arrows to a hungry plastic crocodile. A poorly acted, cheap, silly, hilarious little low budget flick - it was a lot more entertaining than I expected, I have to admit. Don't ask me what the whole chase was all about: an alien astronaut, a hidden treasure or an ancient sun-god with an electronic organ? Every time the audience starts wondering, a bunch of heavies with machine guns turns up, and that works somehow. Footnote: This was the last movie by veteran director Gianfranco Parolini, known for many westerns, thrillers and historical epics of the 1960s.