Treasure Raiders (2007)
Michael, an American professor teaching history at Moscow University, finances his passion for treasure hunting with competitive street racing. His racing nemesis Wolf becomes his ally as they both embark on a quest to search for a famous ancient Russian treasure.
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It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,
Hasn't everyone get tired of lame Hollywood films like this? Apparently, Hollywood produced an addition to their verrrrry long list of action films about Americans in Russia.I guess the producers were brainstorming about what's next in action films and they were thinking, "Yeah. This is the 21st century. Russia is becoming cool, so let's not make a story about a dude who kill impoverished evil Russians. Just make them look cool." And then someone suggested, "Hey! I heard that people's into The Da Vinci Code and stuff, so let's say there are two cool guys, one is a professor and one is a racer, and then they are looking at a treasure that has a code in it." So they went to Russia to find good places to shoot the film, hired a special effects "expert", and to cut costs, they searched for so-so actors with low talent fees.The result? A cheap, terrible and cliché-ridden "Treasure Raiders." See? This gotta be worse than any of Steven Segal's idiotic films. In fact, this gotta be one of the worst films about Mother Russia. Damn! I can't believe I've finished it!
This film is quite possibly the biggest piece of crap I've ever had the misfortune of watching, and that's saying a lot.The acting was painful to watch. It seemed as if they just pulled some random guys off the street and told them to wing it. The timing was unbearable. The chemistry: painfully lacking. The characters: one-sided, shallow, and downright weird (what were thy thinking w/ the guy from Colombia). Carradine and Fenn must be pretty hard up to have taken part in this monstrosity. Trust me guys, get new agents; making this kind of crap isn't going to bring you back.The plot was non-existent as if they set a couple of grade-schoolers loose with some crayons, took the end result, and used it to start shooting. Seriously, the big, Russian, wolf-guy who wrote this should be beaten to death with a playwriting guide.The title is confusing as there is no treasure and no raiding anywhere in this nightmare. Just when it shows a glimmer of getting interesting (more interesting than sleeping that is), the credits roll out. I give it 2 stars, and that's because I'm in a good mood.Do yourself a favor and avoid like the plague.
David Carradine what are you doing? Sherilyn Fenn what are you doing? Since when does unknown beef boy Alexander Nevsky get top billing over Carradine? Man this movie simply sucked. *** May contain Spoilers here *** A professor who likes to race at night as a hobby gets caught up with the usual suspects: Russian drug lords, backstabbing Columbian doctors and - David Carradine. Oh and this professor is on a journey to find the secret treasure to the nights templar - could they have found more to put into the plot? Sure! Why not throw in an irrelevant useless police force in there as well?! and have them appear whenever we need them to tie up loose ends in our swiss cheese plot?! or how about we kill interesting librarian characters without any explanation whatsoever? yes! let's do it! We've got ourselves a winner here! *** End Spoilers *** The only reason it gets 2 stars is because I found some serious scenes hilarious. The plot is all twisted up in the wrong way, but what I don't understand is how they've got explosions and cars getting busted up but the production quality looks like a film made on a 10g budget! Actually I've seen films made on a 10g budget and at least the acting was decent!! Sad to see actor's grab up a role just to keep themselves busy.
Absolute rubbish...Editing, acting & storyline was very poor... production values not too bad, but overall, RUBBISH!The new would-be Russian big-guy that plays "Wolf" can't act for toffee.Carradine's role is predictable and the closest thing to a good turn in the whole thing... and that's saying something!The Russel Crowre look-alike in the lead role was acceptable, bit that's the best I can say...What a waste of time!