Poor Man's Jones
31 July 2010
Warning: Spoilers
If you've seen the Indiana Jones series, you don't need to see this.

Handsome Ivan Sergei plays an Indiana Jones style archaeologist named Jack Hunter, right down to the requisite fedora.

Beautiful Joanne Kelly plays the American-educated, American-accented Syrian, Nadia Ramadan. She starts out tough, but becomes increasingly wimpy the more she gets to know Jack.

Rugged, blond Thure Riefenstein plays the ruthless Germanic, Russian-employed, villain, Albert Littmann.

Susan Ward plays Liz, assistant to Jack's professor-mentor who meets disaster early on. Liz turns out not to be what she seems. Her true identity should be revealed in part two of this three-part series. (Parts two and three are not immediately available for viewing as one writes.)

There are virtually no surprises in this Indiana Jones rip-off, save possibly one near the end. Most scenes attempt to deliver mystery and suspense, to little or no avail.

There is one tender scene between Jack and Nadia, but it's not enough to save the movie. The best scene, photographically, has Jack and Nadia riding horseback toward their goal.

If you want to see a much better Indiana Jones style TV series, check out The Librarian series, starring Noah Wyle.
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