in technical aspects this movie was adequate (though not particularly good): the sets look Egyptian, the special effects are acceptable for a TV-movie.the acting ranges from 'phoning it in' (our hero and heroin) to 'cringe-worthy' (the bad guys and extras) the story is the biggest problem: to say that the writer wiped his ass with historical accuracy is an understatement. but such an offense could be easily forgiven if the departure from history is for the sake of making a more entertaining story or for trimming a confusing back-story. this story however fails at both: it constructs an elaborate back-story (or at least pretends to have done so, while in fact it's just 'good versus evil') and fails to be entertaining.the only entertainment this train-wreck offers is in schade-freude: laughing at the huge pretensions that seep through and at the actors who must at one point have thought they were in a half-way decent movie. that the hero and his friends are boring and not very intelligent is to be expected (they are audience-avatars, and the people who make these movies don't have a very high opinion of their audience). but the biggest problem is that the villains are equally stupid and one-dimensional and (most damning of all) boring as hell. their only goal is apparently to 'be bad' (and not in the 'getting drunk and having fun' way, but in the 'having countless staff-meetings and doing boring political things' way).

I almost cried after watching this move, not because it was emotionally moving, but because I wasted $5 to rent it for the weekend. First of all, the editing sucked, some parts of the movie seemed to be recorded on a camcorder. The climax scene was more flat than week-old soda. Many things didn't make sense at all - such as French soldiers in full uniform in 100 degree heat, or dynamite blowing a perfect square hole in the ground in front of a tomb. The whole movie was not believable AT ALL. Honestly, I've seen better acting in porn. If you want a good Egypt movie, watch The Mummy instead.Too bad I can't give this movie negative stars.

I'm not sure how to describe this very long sci-fi fantasy. It rips off everything: The Mummy, Stargate, a dash of Star Wars, and of course a huge helping of Indiana Jones. It even has a Satanic secret society of super-villains whose whole "raison d'etre" is to take over the world and rule it with the usual iron fist. Casper Van Dein is clearly playing a younger Indiana Jones, complete with a professorship, a brown fedora, and a whip. Although the date of the setting implies he's a younger, alternate Indy in another, more fantastical universe, he doesn't quite cut it. Unfortunately for him, he's not Harrison Ford. He's not even Brendon Frasier, that other Indy-like action hero of archaeology and ancient legends. One cliché after another, not a single original concept. And at the same time, I found myself enjoying it enough to sit through all three hours of it. It is just escapist fantasy, and there's nothing wrong with that. Sometimes a little nonsense doesn't hurt.

Just so you know, I allude to the ending. Read on only if you feel this review will not spoil it for you. I don't think it will. After setting through this yawner, at the end you think that maybe you will see a little action then it ends with "to be continued". What is up with that? The plot is a rip-off of "Indiana Jones" and "The Mummy". It had virtually no originally. It did have good potential at the beginning then died a slow painful death; the writer fell asleep at the switch. What was the director thinking? I am a movie junkie however I really am disappointed. The quality of the production was good. I think that if they might have been better of making this a trilogy and warn you a head of time. Maybe their intent was to end this a "cliff hanger" but when a movie is this long the audience should be rewarded with a little more exciting end. If you are asking yourself, "Will he watch the next installment?" The answer is yes, if there is one. I have to. I can only hope that I will be rewarded for my tenacity.