Your opening line was spot on. Friday night, needing a late film to watch, with a cold beer and my feet up. I watched 45 minutes. Gave up and won’t go back to finish it. No point wondering how it will turn out for them all - I don’t care.
Hehe, no worries. You've seen it before. At least parts of it, spread across the decades in much better films, from Indiana Jones to National Treasure and more. 😁
I'm going to have to stop reading your reviews, Eirik, as you're pouring cold water on all the popcorn movies/series of which I'd thought 'Oh, I quite like the idea of that'!
But in truth you're absolutely right. There is so much stuff designed, right up to the trailer, to get people thinking just that. It's 'If you liked X, then you'll like Y' film-making by algorithm.
I love me a good archaeology/artefact/treasure map yarn, having been brought up on Indiana Jones. I enjoyed Dial of Destiny and Uncharted and am even in the vanishingly small segment of the world's population to be a fan of Sahara.
But there is a limit to the amount of rehashing a trope can take, especially if, as you suggest, there is no new angle added.
In fact, is it even possible at this stage to add a new angle?
Funnily enough, Benji Chivers' dad turns out to be a friend of a friend, and just posted on Facebook about heading off to the première, and how excited he was. I hope for the kid's sake he has a great time, and the film's a success (also for all others involved in the legwork of making it, though perhaps not the greenlighting producers). But you do have to wonder whether the 'potential franchise' he talks about is really what cinema needs right now.
Heh, well, this one is enjoyable, to a degree, but as a fan of adventure films myself (I have even interviewed Karen Allen via phone call, of all things), it was frustrating to watch this. It just seemed so derivative, like a Frankenstein's monster of adventure movies.
Anyway, bring the popcorn if you're watching this. :)
Your opening line was spot on. Friday night, needing a late film to watch, with a cold beer and my feet up. I watched 45 minutes. Gave up and won’t go back to finish it. No point wondering how it will turn out for them all - I don’t care.
Hehe, no worries. You've seen it before. At least parts of it, spread across the decades in much better films, from Indiana Jones to National Treasure and more. 😁
I'm going to have to stop reading your reviews, Eirik, as you're pouring cold water on all the popcorn movies/series of which I'd thought 'Oh, I quite like the idea of that'!
But in truth you're absolutely right. There is so much stuff designed, right up to the trailer, to get people thinking just that. It's 'If you liked X, then you'll like Y' film-making by algorithm.
I love me a good archaeology/artefact/treasure map yarn, having been brought up on Indiana Jones. I enjoyed Dial of Destiny and Uncharted and am even in the vanishingly small segment of the world's population to be a fan of Sahara.
But there is a limit to the amount of rehashing a trope can take, especially if, as you suggest, there is no new angle added.
In fact, is it even possible at this stage to add a new angle?
Funnily enough, Benji Chivers' dad turns out to be a friend of a friend, and just posted on Facebook about heading off to the première, and how excited he was. I hope for the kid's sake he has a great time, and the film's a success (also for all others involved in the legwork of making it, though perhaps not the greenlighting producers). But you do have to wonder whether the 'potential franchise' he talks about is really what cinema needs right now.
Heh, well, this one is enjoyable, to a degree, but as a fan of adventure films myself (I have even interviewed Karen Allen via phone call, of all things), it was frustrating to watch this. It just seemed so derivative, like a Frankenstein's monster of adventure movies.
Anyway, bring the popcorn if you're watching this. :)