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4.1/10   277 votes
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Director:
Jim Wynorski
Writer:
Steve Latshaw (writer)
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Genre:
Action | Drama more
Tagline:
Don't mess with mother nature
Plot:
A new reality-style game show, "Treasure Hunt" has invited a cast of contestants, including a Los Angeles... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
4 nominations more
User Comments:
A good cheesy romp more (15 total)

Cast

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Treat Williams ... Sam Garrett

Susan Walters ... Susan Billings

Cliff De Young ... Stuart McMahon

Tim Thomerson ... Phillip Edwards

Marcia Strassman ... Kim Nelson

Dave Hager ... Whitney
Gretchen Palmer ... Tina Mason
William Zabka ... Rance
Eric James Virgets ... Jeffries
Renee Ridgeley ... Julie Connors

Bruce Nozick ... Jack MacRae

Tamara Davies ... Mindi Rain

Robert Clotworthy ... Bill Cassidy

Curtis Armstrong ... Steve Chaney

Michael Dudikoff ... Jared
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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated R for violence and language.
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Runtime:
USA:96 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital
Certification:
Iceland:16 | South Korea:15 | USA:R | Germany:16
Filming Locations:
Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden - 301 N. Baldwin Avenue, Arcadia, California, USA more
Company:
Phoenician Entertainment more

Fun Stuff

Goofs:
Errors in geography: The weather forecast showing a radar map of around Midway Island actually shows Santa Catalina Island, which is about 25 miles off the coast of California. Midway Island is in the middle of the Pacific Island. more
Movie Connections:
Edited from Last Action Hero (1993) more

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A good cheesy romp, 28 November 2003
Author: Barry_Norman from England

After reading the comments here I was fully expecting a bad film. This gave me the incentive to watch this film as a good cheesy romp can be entertaining. I wasn't let down.

I agree with an earlier comment made that obviously people here have taken this film WAY too seriously, judging by their reviews. Think, how many disgruntled, suspended L.A detectives do you know get invited to appear on a T.V reality game show?

The first 'controversial' scene with the car chase ripped from Last Action Hero was comical if anything else. It does seem a bit disjointed from the rest of the film but sets up the premise (an over-the-top one) of why our hero is off work and has nothing better to do other than to eat barely-cooked hot-dogs dipped in mustard and appear on Reality TV game show.

After that were introduced to the rest of the contestants and the shady game show host. It appears he has plans about pocketing the cool $10 million prize for himself rather than the unwitting contestants. Again, what T.V company would bury $10 million in a treasure chest on a remote island?

They get there, have a getting to know period where the dominant characters emerge to lead the two teams to the treasure. Of course Treat is one. They later find out that a team of 'pirates' will hunt them down to prevent them from getting the secret stash.

Next day they set off with good intentions but eventually run into a band of men carrying large machine guns, and not paint-ball guns as they were led to believe, and run for their lives. Meanwhile a huge tropical storm is brewing.

Basically then it turns into a cat-and-mouse type of affair but the cats aren't very proficient killers. An over-the-top sequence that resembles the nuke scene in Apocalypse Down, just to take down half a dozen straw huts is hilarious. I wouldn't say this was a particularly violent film. Just an implausible one. Like hiding in a beach cave while a huge 50 foot tsunami wave is just outside threatening to destroy the whole island. And what happened to the building at then end.

You can't really go into this film expecting a masterpiece, just accept it for what it is, ridiculous, over-the-top hokum and you won't be disappointed.

6/10

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