El Dorado

Small Indiana Jones. With each piece of clock in perfect place. Charming hero, beautiful girl friend and dusty companion. South America as arena. Subject - mythical city of gold. So, a nice puzzle. Bad guy - part of a conspiracy. Corrupt army general. Wonderful images. And running, gun fires, old machines for protect artifacts, dusty story and victory of good guys. A tale with well known lines. But not boring. For the meeting of elements from a way to rebirth adventures in a gray world. For the errors , many childish of script. For the large eyes front of spectacular fight scenes. For the ambiguous line between good and bad. And for Luke Goss in the role of without soul brute, for a Shane West as a kind of James Dean the explorer.El Dorado is perfect excuse for this action movie.

I am a total sucker for adventure movies. I have watched all the best of them; Indiana Jones; Romancing the Stone; National Treasure; The Da Vinci Code; King Solomon's Mines; Jewel of the Nile. And now I have watched one of the poorest attempts at replicating them: El Dorado.

As it say's in my headline summary "El Dorado" is based on a very poor script where the "archaeology" plays an extremely small role. Because of that it seems that the director has decided on filling the very obvious plot holes with endless and pointless chases, shoot outs and ever changing hostage and blackmail situations. The problem is that no matter what happens and how many twists are used to try to confuse or shock the viewer we always know what is going to happen long before it does and all of the smoke, screens and mirrors never really cover up the fact, that there really isn't much of a story to engage in.

These shortcomings are furthermore enhanced by the very poor acting displayed by the majority of the actors. Some of the minor supporting actors are actually quite good, but they just can't carry the weight of the rest of the cast and the very poor script.

Add to that the lacking of either skill or vision (possibly both) in the special effects/CGI section of the production crew. The CGI portions of the movie (especially the ending) are so bad, that most people would expect more from the graphics of a 10 year old, cheap PC game.

On top of all these shortcomings comes the ending of the movie which I will not reveal. I just want to say that it is bad. Very bad. In fact so bad and so badly thought through, that you can't help but wonder how (in actual history) the Incans could have possibly lost to the Spanish when they had such great powers on their side.

It seems to me that the best part of the movie is actually the stunts and chases which are rather imaginative and well performed, so if you like that, you might like the movie - it's actually the reason why I gave the movie 3 instead of just 1 star...

So just to sum it up, El Dorado is a very bad movie, based on a very bad script, with rather bad actors, containing very bad effects and CGI and with a very bad and unfulfilling ending.

I watched the two episodes last night and I thought they were great. I wanted to be entertained and I was. Exciting story; yes very similar to Indiana Jones but any treasure/artifact hunting film will be. The story was good and well thought out, exciting while not being in the realms of the ridiculous. I enjoyed Luke Goss's performance. He is charismatic and those penetrating blue eyes riveting. He does not get enough credit for his performance in this film. It is the first time I have seen him act (only remember him in Bros!). The locations up in the Andes, the jungle and coast were truly spectacular, wonderful to see, especially for an armchair traveller like myself. I do not hold with the view that a film has to be 'Oscar' standard to be highly entertaining and in my opinion these two installments provide one with an excellent evenings viewing.

Found the movie version of this, I do see how others see this is an Indiana Jones rip-off. Its still interesting and good in its own way. Then again, he isnt that likeable, when he actually talks to people, mainly because he is always fighting everyone.

This man explores places, gets chased, starts explaining what El Dorado is because the other geologist chaser doesnt know what it is (but also me as a viewer I dont know anything of this legend) But as a movie plot, it don't make sense that this women he explains to that she is suppose to be super talented and knowledgable, doesnt know about El Dorado.

I think this could be a good series either way, if it had continued, memorable leads technically.

This has great chase scenes, like very actioby and creative with the bulls. But also, cliff hanger of an ending...

As Audio Engineer, the sound team should be fired! Episode one was watchable. I could only stand the first few minutes of Episode two, the audio was so terrible I couldn't bear it.

The scenery in Peru is beautiful! The several elements of CGI were so obvious - sad. I didn't have a problem with the acting for the most part, and the story was fun although I really wanted the bad guy dead from the very beginning.

But all of the acting and wonderful scenery becomes moot if you can stand to listen to it. I gave it 3 stars primarily for the scenery.