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The Jewel of the Nile

The Jewel of the Nile (1985)

December. 04,1985
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6.1
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PG
| Adventure Action Comedy Romance

Joan Wilder is thrust back into a world of murder, chases, foreign intrigue... and love. This time out she's duped by a duplicitous Arab dignitary who brings her to the Middle East, ostensibly to write a book about his life. Of course, he's up to no good, and Joan is just another pawn in his wicked game. But Jack Colton and his sidekick Ralph show up to help our intrepid heroine save the day.

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Hellen
1985/12/04

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

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Evengyny
1985/12/05

Thanks for the memories!

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Matylda Swan
1985/12/06

It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties.

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Tymon Sutton
1985/12/07

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

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MichaelMercy
1985/12/08

Even though most people describe this follow-up to 1984's Romancing the Stone as not as strong as the original, I found both of them to be on par. Same tone, quality and sense of 80's fun and adventure. Watching these two flicks back to back will make a great double-feature date night for 80's lovers. The sum of the 'Romancing' duology is greater than its parts in my opinion. See my full review at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-1tlw7h2qQ

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leplatypus
1985/12/09

Watch this movie as a precious relic of a time of freedom as you can see things that would be totally censored in today American movies! In a way, this movie is really close to early Tintin comics as it's pure fun in exotic places and for sure fun means native depicted as Clichés! So here Arabs and Africans are viewed as primitive, a bunch of tribes or peasants, Muslim rebels fighters are helpful and wise! It's hard to judge it against the Zemeckis movie because the setting is totally different: the first was jungle, green, water while now it's desert, sand, sun! I find that the trio has a real chemistry together, there is really some funny moments and if the movie drags a bit at the end, i had a pleasant watching!

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thesar-2
1985/12/10

It was just one dollar cheaper to order a double-feature Bluray of both Romancing the Stone and The Jewel of the Nile, so my initial reaction was: Why not? And now, I miss that dollar and simply ask: Why?Racist, boring, unnecessary, bad special effects and a terrible soundtrack and score were all the thoughts I accumulated during my first viewing. In the movie's defense, however, they did have only one good song (the end credit's "When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going" by Billy Ocean,) a couple of lines were actually good (yeah, I counted only two) and the cast actually looked like they were trying to show up. Other than those positives, this movie shouldn't have been made.While they took the jungle out of Jack from the first movie and made him an Indiana Jones rip-off, they did keep the same story that Joan is highly respected and sought out, despite her writing garbage novels. Basically the rest of the story involves a mesh-up of the first two Indy films that actually had me continuously check the time left and my mind wandering.The first isn't great, but it's a fun, no-harm adventure. This is the second Staying Alive/pointless sequel of the 1980s. Avoid. * * *Final thoughts: Surprisingly, in a movie that had ho-hum and far from fresh dialogue, one of two lines stood out and actually made me laugh out loud: "Don't be ridiculous. Jack would never die without telling me." I have no idea how this made it in, as this would fit perfectly in an all-out comedy. But, at least it gave me something to cheer through this ordeal.

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elshikh4
1985/12/11

I loved (Romancing the Stone). I was quite amazed when I knew that it has a sequel. For a long time I didn't come upon it at all (some channels hate it ?!). It took me 13 years to get to watch it. And did I love it? Yes. But lesser than the first. So why is that ?! First of all, the script. Compare (Romancing..) to this one, and you'd know the difference between the Hollywood perfect script and the Hollywood draft. Simply the first had more emotions; being like a romantic comedy about the opposite attract, more talk about the dreams; which makes the characters humans to be related to, before heroes to cheer on, more hard choices; there was a scene where the lead had to decide between a gem and a girl, and more twists; namely : more heat. This one is only a fine skeleton for all of the above, however empty. Looking to the movie as a whole assures that it's not the matter of the action-with-more movie and its pure-action sequel, rather the memorable B movie and another B movie !True after the jungles in the first they went to the desert in this one, and after pursuing a gem, this time the gem is a man, but that was it concerning any "changing" ! The movie is enjoyable but hyped. Everything runs very fast. In one scene : Joan is at a book signing engagement, meets Omar, a charming Arab ruler, he offers her the opportunity to live at his palace while she writes about him, she agrees, leaves Jack, and travels with Omar…JUST LIKE THAT ?!! The characters don't think, they just do. There is no gag thrown in-between or special emotional moment. And it lacks the surprises along the way. To say the least : It's tangible that the time spent in writing (The Jewel..) was less than the time spent in writing (Romancing..).The title character, "The Jewel", is extremely pathetic! Who is that man anyway? Sometimes he's a very poor street magician, sometimes he's a man of miracles, and all the time he seems like A-one fool ! And more than that I was forced to believe that this fool is a religious leader and beloved icon ???!!! It mirrors dumb writing for sure, especially when he uses naive tricks to rescue Jack at one moment, while – at another – we discover that he can walk into fire with no harm whatsoever!! Or it's part of many Hollywood movies' dogma while dealing with Arabs; whereas they're pictured, eternally, as throng of idiots (the movie, this round, resorts to giving them a funky look sometimes to change the flavor of the pretty old idea though !). Or maybe it's the way things work in a movie about American adventurous leads, where the American must be the cowboy, and the rest must be Red Indians !Then, THE MUSIC ! Jack Nitzsche produced electronic weak thing that doesn't live up to what it expresses of non-stop action and adventures. It's a major let-down which almost turned the movie into a cheap, hasty and cheesy TV episode. And take it from me, don't beat a dead horse by comparing the first's music, by Alan Silvestri, to this; it would sound like a comparison between Charles Chaplin and Tom Arnold ! The special effects took a lot from the movie's personality as something done by big production company. They, instead, fit a B movie from independent destitute company! The walking into the fire scene is clear example.The 3 stars, (Kathleen Turner), (Michael Douglas) and (Danny DeVito), aren't playing their roles inasmuch as playing at them, with not much of fun. However (Kathleen Turner) is still a treat to watch apart. She reminds me, with that husky voice of hers, with (Lauren Bacall). Back then, at her young non-fat phase, she was so sexy. And since her long legs couldn't be resisted, they have been put, exactly like the previous movie, in always torn skirts, so with a lot of running and jumping around you might have a pretty sight indeed. Even at one moment (DeVito) calls her "LEGS", and obviously he has a point. By the way, for every male viewer who missed it; its color was white (You know well what I'm talking about !). The character of (Omar Khalifa) is none other than a handsome version of (Muammar al-Gaddafi), see how the smallest details refer to him (the picture with the commander's white suit). At the time (al-Gaddafi) was a favorite laughingstock in the American movies. Albeit, the Nile doesn't flow in Libya.The stars' glow, not glee, and the action sequences are the sole facts in this movie. Director Lewis Teague, who made many TV series, mastered a good comic book. He was as vigorous as (Robert Zemeckis), the director of (Romancing the Stone), yet with less saturated script and more speedy pace. I bet, with not much time between the 2 movies, they quickened the sequel. Overall (The Jewel..) made money as huge as the first (rarely when a Michael Douglas production goes wrong), it works in terms of being flashy flash, and it shows the nature of the initial scripts in Hollywood, and the initial ideas at understanding other nations in the same city too !

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