The Librarian - Return to King Solomon's Mines
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Movie Reviews of The Librarian - Return to King Solomon's Mines
Movie Review: A Great Romp
Summary: 4 Stars
Noah Wylie returns in RETURN TO KING SOLOMON'S MINES as the bookish librarian Flynn Carsen. Check your tongue firmly in cheek for this stroll through derring-do. There are laughs a-plenty and more trivia about nearly anything than you can shake a stick at.
While the TV-movie-gone-DVD is highly watchable, the story isn't going to take a single twist or turn that the avid movie watcher won't pick up from a mile away. From the pictures Flynn used to draw about his dad's story of adventure and magic, to the real culprit who killed Flynn's father, the movie enthusiast isn't going to be surprised.
But that's most of the fun in the movie. You know what you want when you sit down and plop this DVD into the player. RETURN TO KING SOLOMON'S MINES pays off in a diverting 90 minutes of good clean fun and black-hearted villains with nothing less than the future of the world at stake.
Jane Curtain and Bob Newhart reprise roles that are campy and fun, and don't stay onstage very long, but they're welcome. The rest all rides squarely on Noah Wylie's shoulders.
The beginning of the movie this time smacks of an Indiana Jones-style beginning, and the plot touches on the parent-child pain of the first Tomb Raider movie, and it even has stylings toward the H. Rider Haggard ALLAN CHAMBERLAIN AND KING SOLOMON'S MINES movies starring Richard Chamberlain and Patrick Swayze, as well as the black and white ones. But it's an endearing adventure nonetheless.
Buy it or rent it for the family and enjoy popcorn action and booing the villains.
Movie Review: the librarian 2
Summary: 5 Stars
loved this one, loved the first one. great for just relaxing and enjoying a fun movie. hope there is more by noah wylie like this.Movie Review: The Librarian Return to King Solomons Mines
Summary: 5 Stars
I love this series. Fun, adventure, laughs. I want the book. Please write the book. This is so fun. Our hero, Librarian Flynn Carsen, now at the Library of Unknown Sciences for 1 year, is ready for a new adventure, this time solo, that leads him to his past and to his father and King Solomons Mines making friends along the way. It must have been filmed on location, the scenery is beautiful. See the original if you haven't yet, for more fun: Quest for the Spear.Movie Review: You get just what it is!
Summary: 5 Stars
This and the first movie are not trying to make movie history or even create deep thought. It's what movies were like when I was a kid and what they should still be...a fun light adventure that when you dismiss what would be real and what would be possible you can enjoy. The acting is excellent for the material and the low budget does not stop your enjoying the fun everyone must have had making this "adventure hero" flick. Now, for those who need blood and gore...look elsewhere. For those looking for a good popcorn and family movie...which could lead to some good talks about "myth's" and "real history" this could be just the thing to watch instead of the latest "McRealality" brain junkfood the networks force on us.Movie Review: Libraries 1, Facts 0
Summary: 3 Stars
As the other reviews will tell you, this movie is fun on the order of the Indiana Jones films, and several others. The Casablanca reference works because the couple (Noah Wyle and Gabrielle Anwar) parts at the end.
On the other hand, for two people with close to fifty degrees between them, well eclipsing my five, you would expect a bit more critical thought and continuity in the film. An ancient scroll can be either parchment or papyrus, but Wyle says it's in that group of materials, and doesn't seem to know what it is specifically. If you see a scroll of parchment, it looks nothing like a scroll of papyrus. At least he doesn't call it paper, which is what it looks like.
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I'm glossing over the archaeology, and how it might be related to the Queen of Sheba--NOT. There is a pointed scene, in King Solomon's Mines,
where Anwar notices, but says nothing about, a large face in the stone behind her--next episode, starring Anwar? I thought, "Ah, she's found the Queen of Sheba. Perhaps she keeps her own counsel until the next adventure? That's the trouble with the lack of continuity; one keeps inventing what might happen, what might have happened, or what will happen.
There are some real howlers: finding the Dead Sea Scrolls, "all of them," in the Mines, when Solomon lived almost a millenium earlier than the DS Scrolls were deposited. I can sort of understand all the places that the keys to understanding the map and locating the mines were found, out of chronological sequence, but later than Solomon. The escape from the water-filled pit was magical, rather than clever. We don't understand how the rescuers knew the couple was in peril. The biggest howler is that Solomon's key is a medieval-looking BOOK. Books did not exist until about the second century C.E., at the earliest. Before that, there were scrolls, either parchment or papyrus.
On the other hand, some things are oddly authentic. The bad guy reads from the BOOK in both English and a mystical language that is actually mishnaic or modern Hebrew, not the Hebrew of the time of Solomon. But it's not gobbledegook, at least. Also, indeed Solomon was, throughout time, connected with the magical and supernatural and legendary. Someone writing a magic treatise would often write it in the name of Solomon.
One star comes off for the historical inaccuracies, and another comes off for the lack of continuity. Another reviewer refers to the Saturday kid's matinees with cliff-hangers. I too grew up on them. This movie is on that level, in characterization and effects and lack of continuity. So I won't grade it down any more, but adults should know it's more childish than the Indiana Jones stories.