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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
If The Mummy, Indiana Jones and Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon had a baby, it might look a little like This film. Part western, part romance with sporadic comedy thrown into a treasure hunt adventure, Taiwanese director Kevin Chu's latest offering is all that and much more.
All together it is an impressive attempt at a western, martial arts filled treasure hunt with an unexpected climax at the end.
All together it is an impressive attempt at a western, martial arts filled treasure hunt with an unexpected climax at the end.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase
Trailing a dismal reputation in its wake and escaping without fanfare to budget DVD, The Treasure Hunter may have been made solely to cash in on pop star Jay Chou's huge popularity in Asia but it's a perfectly serviceable Summer movie if you're not expecting Taiwan's answer to Raiders of the Lost Ark or The Mummy. Riffing on Romancing the Stone, Chiling Lin is the author of pulp adventure stories reunited with her Indiana Jones-like childhood sweetheart Chou - who restores stolen antiques to the countries they've been looted from rather than raiding tombs himself - when her estranged father's map to a lost city leads to her being kidnapped. From there on it follows most of the usual lost city clichés as the rivals race to get there first, just in time for it to fall to pieces and leave them to try to escape - naturally empty-handed - as lost cities are wont to do in these kind of movies...
It's join the dots stuff as it moves from setpiece to setpiece, not helped by having its two best action scenes, a fight with a knight made of sand and a `sandstorm legion' of desert riders, in the first half of the picture. Nor are the characters particularly interesting despite the attempts to pad them out with backstories that go nowhere, relying heavily on the charm of the cast to paper over the gaps. Chou and Lin are personable enough, Eric Tsang alternates between warm nostalgic sentimentality and Lou Costello shtick while Daoming Chen strikes the odd pose as he stares into the faraway distance as The One Who's Been There Before But Won't Explain How He Alone Survived (but he isn't happy to be around raw meat), but at times they're used almost as much as scenery as the desert locations. Still, it's a lavish production that has some decent special effects and is modestly entertaining if you're in an undemanding mood and just looking for some easygoing eye candy. However, some of the horse falls look rather worryingly like illegal tripwire stunts.
The only extra is the internationmal trailer but the DVD offers a good 2.35:1 widescreen transfer.
It's join the dots stuff as it moves from setpiece to setpiece, not helped by having its two best action scenes, a fight with a knight made of sand and a `sandstorm legion' of desert riders, in the first half of the picture. Nor are the characters particularly interesting despite the attempts to pad them out with backstories that go nowhere, relying heavily on the charm of the cast to paper over the gaps. Chou and Lin are personable enough, Eric Tsang alternates between warm nostalgic sentimentality and Lou Costello shtick while Daoming Chen strikes the odd pose as he stares into the faraway distance as The One Who's Been There Before But Won't Explain How He Alone Survived (but he isn't happy to be around raw meat), but at times they're used almost as much as scenery as the desert locations. Still, it's a lavish production that has some decent special effects and is modestly entertaining if you're in an undemanding mood and just looking for some easygoing eye candy. However, some of the horse falls look rather worryingly like illegal tripwire stunts.
The only extra is the internationmal trailer but the DVD offers a good 2.35:1 widescreen transfer.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase
I liked this film,i know its a blend of two others,Indiana Jones and the Mummy ,but once i had stopped noting the debts it owed to those two films,i just enjoyed it,its no classic to be sure,and the ending is such,a sequel is well on the cards,no point telling anything about the story,if you,ve seen Indie and the Mummy and nod there to Spiderman i thought ,with the bandageman, you,ve got it, if a sequel comes along i will be taking a look
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Not what i was expecting.
A good film, entertaining throughout, maybe it's a bit too fake with all the mythical things going on but it depends on your expectations.
Published 5 months ago by Gitch28
Zero star if I could.
If it weren't for a bit of spam from Amazon emails recommending this to me, I had forgotten that I had watched this utter nonsense. So all the horrible memories came flooding back. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Mr. Km Liu
treasure hunter
i wouldnt really describe it as treasure hunting as such or much fighting.
I wouldnt give it a 15 thats for sure.
I wouldnt give it a 15 thats for sure.
Published 6 months ago by j799lol
OK, a 3-star movie
The dvd came on time and in good order.
The story and acting are just OK, nothing special to mention.
The story and acting are just OK, nothing special to mention.
Published 8 months ago by Tan
asianindianajone
Action packed movie with a ridiculous combination of western,modern ,motoycling etc etc ....but very enjoyable @ funny to watch. Read more
Published 8 months ago by davidli12
Treasure Hunter
It was fantastic, great picture quality, great acting it was not really what I expected, but I really enjoyed it
Published 12 months ago by Tendai
Subtitled
I think this is probably a good film, but there is a mistake in the description as it isn't in English as stated, but in Mandarin with English subtitles. Read more
Published 22 months ago by S. Wilkes
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