An average movie

To be honest, I wasn’t really sure what to expect from this flick but since there was a decent cast involved, I thought I might as well check it out. Well, I’m a huge fan of Indiana Jones and, sure, it might be unfair to compare this movie with such a classic but to be honest, I wasn’t surprised by how lame the damned thing turned out to be. Seriously, even if it wasn’t a complete disaster, it wasn’t far from it though. I wonder if the story worked better in the book it was adapted from because, with this adaptation, right from the start, the damned thing was just a mess. Indeed, instead of giving us a proper introduction, you start in the middle of the story which was rather confusing but, even more problematic, they kept making some weird shortcuts all along. Anyway, somehow, the main character ended up in some weird hotel looking for the Midas box which was first supposed to turn everything into gold but it had nothing to do with gold after all, while his parents and little brother were all kidnapped. How did they come up with this story? The worst thing was that it was so tedious to behold. Concerning the cast (Michael Sheen, Sam Neill, Lena Headey), they also seemed to have some fun but, in spite of their efforts, their respective characters were all boring. At least, Mariah Mundi was an intriguing name for a male character but it was properly the only interesting thing in this movie, I’m afraid. It was rather funny that they did add a cliffhanger (which was also quite pathetic) during the end-credits, obviously hoping that they could come up with a sequel which was obviously never made since nobody care about this movie. Anyway, to conclude, I think my rating was actually really generous here, the damned thing was really weak and you should probably avoid it.