Flyerplesys Perfectly adorable

DipitySkillful an ambitious but ultimately ineffective debut endeavor.

Marva-nova Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

Sarita Rafferty There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

krabat-0 *** This review may contain spoilers ***Mira Sorvino was Sandra Bullock, never a sad face below 7/10Scott Foley was tom hanks/similar, and never really in play Nice settings, desert, island, plane, Land Roverserious pace-stopping adult talk to extend the script to 3 hoursunnecessary daughter and brother, who were never in playfoul search by cruel and non-establishment-representing delusional mad scientist for the means to tumble the Christian churchand then BAM, 2hrs 40 minutes in, right in your face the whole shebang turns Christian.Should have seen it coming. Male lead being catholic and all. But they actually masked it in hints and dibble-dabble half-voiced background story to build the male lead character. Honestly, it really was a shocker. For someone who goes a long way to avoid movies advocating Christianity over simply putting faith in what ever gets you through life, if was a transgression. Aside from that, either the script or its direction masks the actual implications of finding a gospel of Jesua from Nazareth. Christians would know what that means, but non-believers, who normally don't give a toss, has to sort of count fingers here, one, two, three... Ah, a gospel by Jesus means that he wasn't the Man. That he didn't die on a cross, or resurrect, thus laying waste to the foundations of the Christian / Catholic Church and making all of it's bloodshed in the name of just another disciple kinda unnecessary... That kind of story. And yes, Vatican priest gets famous last words:" We've put our faith in God for 2000 years, and our belief in the Saviour. We can survive any crazy stunt to discredit us". But, really, I don't care. I just feel robbed of my time. Mira Sorvino probably had a really good time, looking all the time as if she's having a really good time, powerful lady, her own woman, don't let anybody in, but will turn to God for help, when love strikes. Right - that's the scientific method, when everything else fails.This movie is made for Sundays. There is not an ounce of relevant tension in it. It should just be gobbled down like forgotten ice-cream melting on the counter. Or avoided for a diet more honest to its viewers.Or just labeled correctly: No thoughts necessary, Christian or otherwise, as you will leave as you came in. Un-changed. And we are not talking soul here, okay! 3/10

Petri Pelkonen Female archaeologist Tess Chaykin goes chasing an arcade medieval decoder, which is stolen from the New York Metropolitan Museum by four horsemen dressed as 12th century knights.She's helped by an FBI agent Sean Daley.The Last Templar is a mini-series from 2009, and it's directed by Paolo Barzman.It's based on the 2005 novel by Raymond Khoury, which I haven't read.In this mini-series the lead is played by Mira Sorvino.Rebecca Windheim plays her daughter Kim.The male lead is played by Scott Foley.Victor Garber plays Monsignor De Angelis.Kenneth Welsh portrays Bill Vance.Omar Sharif plays the part of Konstantine.I saw this show on a DVD a little while back.It doesn't offer you great adventure like those Indiana Jones movies.And it is much closer to The Da Vinci Code, which was also about a secret the Vatican doesn't want you to know.There is some entertainment value this has to offer.Like Mira Sorvino chasing those horsemen, on a horse, is really something to see.So if you don't expect too much and want just to be entertained, you should watch this.

johnslegers If you are familiar with the action/detective/adventure genre we know from classics like the "Indiana Jones" franchise or the franchise built around Dan Brown and perhaps the quite bad "National Treasure" franchise or "Lost City Raiders", there is little "The Last Templar" has to offer. Most of the mini-series I felt like I was watching a poorly acted, poorly researched, poorly scripted, poorly directed extended remake of "The Da Vinci Code" with a little bit of "Indiana Jones" thrown in the mix, that somehow managed to add a pro-Catholic message.At the very start of the mini-series, I just new I was not going to like it. While there's an exposition of ancient Vatican artifacts being held in the middle of New York City, four men fully dressed in medieval Templar outfits are riding their horses through the metropolis, somehow not being stopped by police officers. Then they ride inside the exposition area after first decapitating a guard, steal a whole bunch of artifacts and ride off into the night.The only valid reason I could think of why these guys would wear such an anachronistic outfit to go rob an exposition was if they were actual Templars in their authentic outfits who traveled through time, but this just wasn't that kind of story. The more I hoped for an alternative explanation, the more I got disappointed when it turned out they never even cared to offer one. We were told that one of the artifacts was a Templar artifact and one of the robbers was an expert on Templar history, but that's really all the clues we get on why the robbers came up with the ludicrous idea to use horses and medieval outfits. Did they really expect that anyone with more than two brain cells would find it remotely plausible that four men dressed as Templars and riding on horses rob an exposition of ancient artifacts in the center of New York City?! But let's not stop here. The Indiana Jane of our story (Mira Sorvino, why are do doing this?) runs after the robbers in her cocktail dress and high heels, steals a police horse and ancient pope staff in the process, continues to follow the robbers and then manages to knock one of them out in some park (Central Park?). After being arrested when taking an artifact from the knocked out robber, she's nearly instantly believed by the FBI agent that's put on the case who decides to let her go.This pretty much sets the tone for the rest of the mini-series and the plot never becomes any more credible than in the first few scenes I just described. The foreign locations are hilariously unauthentic, the Templar mythology is childish, the events taking place are too contrived to take seriously and the main characters seem to make all the right decisions while at the same time coming off as incredibly naive. Besides our Indiana Jane's (actually it's Tess Chaykin, but I prefer to call her Indiana Jane) little daughter, none of the important characters seemed remotely believable in what they said or did. I suspect this indicates the mental age of the people involved.While these are already more than enough reasons to think of this as a horrible mini-series, what offset me most was the way they decided to end it. The last part of the mini-series was not only incredibly boring, when something actually happened it was an insult to rationality and an ode to ignorance. Somehow our always rational archaeologist who had put most of her life in service for the search for historical truth and accuracy suddenly became a Christian after being cared for by a religious hermit on some remote Greek island (who for some reason spoke perfect English) and noticing the apparent harmony of the local community. Somehow she must have figured that it was Christianity that made these people so kind and caring and that if she wanted to be just as kind and caring she had to become a Christian. The logical fallacies involved here are just staggering. She ignores the fact that being kind and caring is unrelated to whatever mythology you believe in and that there are Buddhists, Hindus, Wiccans, Asatruar, Shintoists as well as atheists that are just as kind and caring. She ignores the fact that the Catholic Church was involved in mass murder for a significant part of its history and that there was a cardinal having people murdered in order to stop her own quest. She ignores the fact that faith in a primitive anthropomorphic personal deity goes against everything she's ever stood for. etc.What's even more shocking, is that she somehow decides to throw away the gospel of Jeshuah because she apparently thinks it's better it's not known to the world. I guess she didn't want to lose her new-found beliefs if scientific research proved the document to be authentic, but that's pretty much as unscientific as it goes. Not only does this go against everything she's ever stood for, it is probably the worst thing an archaeologist could possible do from a scientific perspective. In fact, it's so anti-scientific and pro-ignorance it's pretty much in line with the attitude of the Spanish inquisition during the days of Galileo, Keppler, Copernicus and Newton... as well the murdering cardinal from the same mini-series."The Last Templar" is a totally unnecessary waste of film that lasts too long to enjoy for its cheesiness and that's too ignorant not to get angry if you have more than two brain cells. Aaargh !

Ermano Arsaunari No wisdom of information I thought the places Hollywood instead of Bodrum.Maybe their budget was low and made the casting at some sort of desert,The name Last Templar is good but the rest is emptiness. Like a black hole in film industry.But such a misinformation is unbelievable. I expected better from the Last Templar. Such Professional_Fakes shouldn't do such things.Bodrum is the place of history,entertainment,fun. A key place to visit with magnificent tastes.We expect better performance and production from film makers in the futureBest Regards