First of all, I would like to start this by saying I am a big fan of Casper Van Dien. Ever since Starship Troopers, I kept an eye on him and his work. This is to explain why I saw this movie, him and the fact that I'm a huge horror fan. OK, lets dig in:For a Hallmark production, it's rather hard to do worse than this. From the camera work that relies solely on cut scenes and fade to black, to horrible special effects, some of which inspired Birdemic, to a plot that helped gave life to Asylum productions and over the top acting coming from Jonathan Hyde, everything falls either in laughter or in cringe here.The first 5 minutes are enough for anyone to make an impression of what will come after. CGI as low as they get, no ration whatsoever, worst decisions taken throughout the film, forced humor and a bad mix of either heart warming emotions or plain ol' cruelty. A mix that didn't work, so a lot of face palming will be required in order to see it completely. There are 2 endings to this movie, one about the action and one about the aftermath. Don't know which one is worse, a battle that made almost no sense and then closure that seemed as forced as it could be. I was surprised to see that after more than an hour, a To Be Continued appeared, cause it actually got green lighted for 2 parts. Cheers!

The only thing that kept me watching this turkey was the belief (fervent dream) that this sucker was going to improve, hopefully, dramatically. But...no..it..did..not...There were some approaches to good action but they all fell short of Indiana Jones which the movie obviously impersonated, at least at times.There was the usual Computer Generated Imagery made famous by the Mummy movies but that was impersonation on an amateurish level. This entire movie was like that - copycat and poorly made.It makes me wonder how it got financial backing. Did someone lose a bet? Was blackmail employed in order to get funding? Extortion with a 9 millimeter to someone's head?

Let's see, get a lot of neat sets and locations together, mix in lots of special effects and costumed extras, ditch the script and just tack it together, and finally completely forget about any real acting attempt and you have this uh, movie.The Danny Freemont character tries so hard to fill Indiana Jones' shoes that it basically ruins the whole movie, since Freemont could never be Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) and everyone watching is painfully aware of this to the point of frustration.So then there is this Morgan Sinclaire character who goes about literally sucking up friends and enemies like some mad dust-buster (for what reason is unknown) and you would expect this personified evil to finally get what for, but what happens? He himself gets unceremoniously vacuumed up, and thus there goes the villain, sigh, whoopee.Oh you will just love the good against evil fan-dance of flapping wings - what a dismal finale.Best line of the this disaster - "I wish we could all forget"; you said it lady! Unfortunately they didn't forget to produce this wash out.

This is not "The Lord of The Rings" by any means and is not even the best work of Director Russell Mulcahy. And there were far too many natives of India trying to pass as Egyptians. Having said that I found this film to be good escapism entertainment if you realize that they are not trying to present any kind of historical fact. One of the best ways to sum it up is to imagine Indiana Jones on the cheap. Casper Van Dien is always fun to watch once you accept his natural cockiness and are pulled into his ability to be comic and serious at the same time.Johnathan Hyde is always excellent either as hero (ala "Richie Rich) or as villain, and he seems to be fated to play these evil archaeologist types recently. And Malcolm McDowell is always superb. But the winner in this film was the sets, props and the soundtrack. The film was worth that alone. Still, a tighter shot film in a shorter time frame might have made it all work better. Not Oscar material by a long shot, but worth the time if you have nothing better to do.