Treasure Raiders (2007)

Touches You

If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Oh, cut this fun and funny movie a break, whydontcha.Here's a movie that revels – no, bathes – in its own ridiculousness to such a degree you really can't escape being charmed by all the fun everyone's having.So here's the silly story: A college professor who doubles as an illegal street racer and triples as an intrepid archaeologist is in Russia on a teacher exchange program but is really seeking the lost treasure of the Knights Templar. Because yeah.He befriends a kindly Russian vigilante strongman, woos the vigilante's Angelina Jolie lookalike sister, and runs afoul of drug dealers, a characteristically evil David Carradine, and Russian police who openly and inexplicably worry about "bad press."Talk about uneven! I lost count of how many movies were going on here. It's a "Fast & Furious" mockbuster, it's a "Da Vinci Code"/"Tomb Raider"/"Indiana Jones" mashup, it's a clichéd drug melodrama, all duct taped and Krazy Glued together into one Frankenstein of a movie.That said, "Treasure Raiders" is an idiotic delight; near perfect comic book escapism, with just enough unintentionally funny scenes like these to make it a big ol' hoot:-- CUT to stunt driver speeding through the streets of Moscow, then CUT to ancient David Carradine gesticulating wildly with a steering wheel, obviously not driving at all.-- Russian bodybuilder Alexander Nevsky is an expressive, genial teddy bear of an actor cut from Arnold's cloth, and is just as indecipherable as Arnold was back in the day.-- And his girlfriend is, oddly, Sherilyn Fenn, obviously old enough to be his mother, who acts as if she wandered in from the movie set next door.There's an ancient coded amulet, a secret bible, plot holes wider than Red Square, and a car that shoots rockets.Actual Russian location shooting lend this movie some much-needed validity, and there are some stunts and racing scenes that are actually quite jaw-dropping. One involving a motorcycle that bursts from a window in the midst of an explosion is truly impressive for a DTV silly like this.Know what I say? Woo hoo! What a Friday night, with "Treasure Raiders," some 7-layer dip and chips, and a coupla cold ones!H8rs gonna h8. Don't listen to them. Listen to me. This is a fun one. Pick it up.

oh boy. what was that ???give it as a present to your mother in law :). the acting is horrendous. nobody not even one actor could act in this movie. the dialogues.the accent.oh my god...the plot... dear god .. please save me from such movies.i think IMDb should flag such movies and provide a warning with the title.i did not read the reviews.i will never make that mistake again in my life.never ever. not even when i am the last person on this planet and this is the only movie left . please do not watch it guys. its not even waste of time. its not even murdering time.watch it on your own risk:)

Okay we all saw Tokyo drift and thought, my god the acting is bad, the dialogue is dire and the premise is weak. But we watched it cos the driving scenes where very good. People who have actually attended a street race know that, (despite a bit of poetic licence) it captured the feel of street racing. Tomb raider was another fun 120 min romp with Angelina Jolie, running about the place in implausible situations. We watched it cos it was a movie re-make of a video game and to that end it lived up to that standard. A fun way to waist a slow evening. So why am I bleating on about a different movies? The answer is simple; I would rather talk about any film then relive this appalling, low end, poor, bile inducing, hate child of tomb raider, fast and the furious and Arnie, on one of his bad acting days!Why? It's bad acting, a terrible obvious plot, weak actors - who appear to be uninterested in the film, bad accents bad, bad acting all alienate you from the film and at no time ever involve you. Instead you feel as though you are a disgusted bystander who wishes to either leave or fling eggs. So the acting and overall film are (imho) awful surly the car chase / race sequences are enough to keep me interested..? No, the race scenes do not appear to be a part of the original vision for this film and they appear to be tacked on afterthoughts. The whole race sceen reminded me of a drive to town with my Gran - slow. So we have 6 cars, down town Moscow, night time,a great back drop ... cars doing 40 kph with the occasional badly staged crash - because all car based films need a crash. The overly obvious ending is painful to watch - does this count as a spoiler? we will all spot the baddie from a mile away and know what will happen at the end, fortunately the baddie explains the whole plot including things the watcher is unaware of, which again makes it all feel tacked on and leaves you feeling isolated as if all the important bits of the film happened off camera while you where watching a lot of nothing scenes. If you must watch this mess of a film then you can entertain yourself by counting all the 80's clichéd lines. As far as I could tell the only one missing is 'I'll be back!' To conclude; I would not watch this film again on a bet. Please do not go see this at the cinema, do not rent this, do not watch it on TV it's just that bad.L_J

After seeing the first scenes of this film I thought I made a new discovery, but my disappointment settled early on. I didn't expect anything special, and so it wasn't. This movie has some of the most unrealistic and wannabe acting I've seen. The characters are false, and the interaction between them is like in a cheap soap opera. The situations created are far from being credible and with a mixture of some superficial special effects, some scenes look really funny, far from their original purpose. Overall it's one of those bad movies in which you have the idea that you know all the way what's gonna happen, and it happens. It has many dead scenes, the plot is too predictable, and the important moments have quite typical solutions. I had the patience to see it until the end, with all of these, and there's no wonder if I won't hear much of it in the future. What surprised me was David Carradine accepting this role, but maybe I haven't seen more of his movies. I gave it a 3/10 for the effort, and I'm not sure it deserves as much.