Lost City Raiders
Pinnacle Films
R4 DVD
This
film starts out well as a good adventure thriller. Unfortunately about halfway
through it loses its religious theme and starts to become New Age. By the end
it is just getting silly. The pseudo-religious approach worked well in Indiana
Jones but only partly works in Lost City Raiders.
It
is 2048 and most of the world is flooded by a rise in sea level. A father and
his two sons run a salvage business, rescuing artefacts and valuables from the
sunken cities. They are taken on by the New Vatican to find a mysterious
sceptre from very early times. The sceptre can control the water levels on the
planet. Each time they think they have the sceptre they find only another clue
to its whereabouts. They also have a rival – a real estate magnate who wants to
raise the sea levels to cover the remaining land and force people to buy his
floating homes. We are given no clue about what they will eat when the last
land is covered by water. A young priest in the New Vatican is passing
information to the magnate. He claims “You cannot stop the Rising. It is an
event foretold by the Scriptures. It will herald the Second Coming”. So far, so
good, but Jesus had better be able to swim.
They
find the sceptre and follow the clues to a huge cave complex. Now it starts to
get silly. This cave complex apparently has the capacity to hold the world’s
excess water, and the water can be directed into the caves by moving the
continental plates. A supposed scientist explains it as manipulating “cosmic
energy convergence points”. They “activate the pressure point to shift the
tectonic plates”, the caves are opened up and water starts rushing in. Has the
world now been saved?
Leaving
out the plot deficiencies, it is a good thriller film. The acting is a bit
rough in places and most of the characters are rather two-dimensional, but the
CGI is outstanding and mostly very believable. Suspend your disbelief, sit back
and enjoy the film.
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