Jewel of the Nile (1985)
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 104m
Director: Lewis Teague
Cast: Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny De Vito
Synopsis:
The characters from Romancing the Stone find themselves on a new adventure while on holiday in Egypt.
Review:
Desperate sequel to a film that was a one-off joke about life imitating art. Here the Turner character ditches her typewriter at the get-go, and with it vanishes anything to distinguish the film from all the other Indiana Jones imitations. The screenplay appears to have been dreamt up while cast and crew enjoyed an expensive sojourn on location, with story and action surrendering to flimsiness and artifice while the bickering relationship of the leads takes centre stage. Dramatic involvement abandoned, its only recourse is to wacky parody. Road to Morocco it ain't, however.
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 104m
Director: Lewis Teague
Cast: Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny De Vito
Synopsis:
The characters from Romancing the Stone find themselves on a new adventure while on holiday in Egypt.
Review:
Desperate sequel to a film that was a one-off joke about life imitating art. Here the Turner character ditches her typewriter at the get-go, and with it vanishes anything to distinguish the film from all the other Indiana Jones imitations. The screenplay appears to have been dreamt up while cast and crew enjoyed an expensive sojourn on location, with story and action surrendering to flimsiness and artifice while the bickering relationship of the leads takes centre stage. Dramatic involvement abandoned, its only recourse is to wacky parody. Road to Morocco it ain't, however.
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 104m
Director: Lewis Teague
Cast: Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny De Vito
Synopsis:
The characters from Romancing the Stone find themselves on a new adventure while on holiday in Egypt.
Review:
Desperate sequel to a film that was a one-off joke about life imitating art. Here the Turner character ditches her typewriter at the get-go, and with it vanishes anything to distinguish the film from all the other Indiana Jones imitations. The screenplay appears to have been dreamt up while cast and crew enjoyed an expensive sojourn on location, with story and action surrendering to flimsiness and artifice while the bickering relationship of the leads takes centre stage. Dramatic involvement abandoned, its only recourse is to wacky parody. Road to Morocco it ain't, however.