Treasure

But I can't figure out if it was the writing, acting or direction that was off, maybe all 3? For some reason I watched the whole thing (boredom?). The best part was the geocaching storyline. But that starts with her saying "there's my friend from work." At what point did they become friends? It's a lot of that.

Simplistic acting and story development, but story was valuable. Those who demand great acting and directing to appreciate a story will be disappointed. But those who can appreciate a good story and uplifting entertainment will enjoy. Good to watch with family and kids. Rebecca Blair was probably the best actor in the movie, but everyone else did a good enough job to make the story passable.

Treasure is a great, family friendly movie. Erica's story is one that a lot of people can relate to at least in some part. Everyone has gone through a hard time in life, much like Erica is. Being a geocacher myself, I can tell you that geocaching is very accurately depicted in Treasure. The character of Ryan, played by Matt Mercurio, explains many of the rules of geocaching to Erica (Ansley Gordon). I really enjoyed that many different aspects of geocaching were included in the film, including puzzle and multi caches, trackables and geocoins, swag trading and Cache In Trash Out. While geocaching is a large part of the story, there are many other great parts to it as well. This kept the movie fresh. If the movie was just about people going out and finding geocaches, I'm sure a lot of people would be less than interested. There's a lot than can be learned from this movie as well; how to deal with grief and peer pressure, how to help your community and how to treat others in general. Overall, a job well done by all of the cast and crew.

Seriously, a lot of the acting is wooden and ranges from competent to poor. The dialogue is often unnatural and cliche'. The actor's pulled punches in a fight scene and the contrived resolution of the resulting confrontation were both laughably bad. And the story itself and plot devices were mostly cliche' and predictable. Characters evolved too quickly and without enough justification. But I still found myself wiping a tear from my eye at times. Go figure.

I could make more criticisms if I were of a mind. And a person could reasonably rate this movie at 3 or 4 stars based on the overall quality. But, I've turned off movies that were crafted far better than this one because they failed to make me care even a little bit about what was happening. Somehow, this movie made me care and the movie's many flaws somehow didn't spoil it for me. So I watched it through to the end with the help of a bit of tissue (while still noticing that the color correction and lighting of that final scene were kinda bad). If you can look past this movie's significant imperfections, it may be a worthwhile watch for you as well.

Chris Williams has done excellent job in creating the story with great thoughts to every detail which makes you feel that you are in it yourself. Many laughing moments, many sad tear jerking moments as the main characters encounter people with needs making them realize the meaning of life. Geocacher was not even in my mind whole watching bcoz my attention was more on the social, cultural, family, homeless needs. Excellent story, excellent cinematography, very good editing, superb background music matching the moods, realistic dialogues, good acting, good locations, appropriate colors, meticulous direction. Has both domestic and international appeal. Will do very well in international market. Overall rating: A+ 4.0/4.0, highly recommend this movie.