This movie seems to be trying to be a Indiana Jones style movie and while it works in some ways, the acting is so bad that by the end of it it was making me wince. It is not just the acting though but the premise seems to be a bit lame to me. Indiana Jones was a university professor who happens to be a part time adventurer, while Flynn is a perpetual student who is kicked out of university so that he can learn from real life, and ends up being employed by a mysterious library that collects mythical artifacts, and put into the position as 'The Librarian'.There is not really all that much to say about this movie with the exception that it does deliver on the action and adventure scenes, however I am surprised that experienced actors like Bob Newhart come across so bland and shallow. However I suspect that it has a lot to do with the script that they were working with. Even then this should not be an excuse since experienced actors should be able to have a lot of input into the script so that they can mould it to end up suiting the characters that they play – the actor is the essence of the character, so a good actor should be able to rework the script to be able to give that character essence.I have also noticed that this is a made for television movie, though that should not be an excuse for bad acting and bad directing. I have seen some pretty good television shows with some pretty good acting in them. Big Bang Theory is one of them, though I suspect actors in the TV series have a lot more to work with, and television movies probably have a lot more budget constraints. Anyway, if you can put up with the bad acting and the corny back story, and a like a good adventure movie, then give this one ago, otherwise leave it on the shelf with all of the other bad movies.

First part of the Librarian series with lots of entertainment and fun.This outing in the popular ¨The Librarian franchise ¨(1ª Quest of the spear-2004- by Peter Winther, 2ª Return king Salomon's mines by Peter Winther and 3ª The curse of the Judas Chalice-2008- by Jonathan Frakes) concerns on Flynn Carsen(Noah Wyle), the roughest, toughest,silly, and botcher hero with 22 university degree . Flynn receives a note from a strange book captioning that has been selected to an interview at the public Metropolitan Library. Flynn is appointed as the new Librarian and assigned missions around the world and recover priceless objects guarded into Metropolitan library where are the Sacred ark, Lance of Longinus, box of Pandora, Arthur's Excalibur blade, the skull of crystal, Saint Sheet of Turin, the magic flute, among others. Meanwhile Flynn is having problems , he just doesn't time for his life and relationship . Now he must find the lance of Longinus which holds supernatural powers and has been robbed by the serpent's brotherhood . He goes to Amazons jungle looking for tracks .Flynn accompanied by a beautiful adventurer (Sonya Walger) discover a Maya temple and later on they head to Himalaya where allegedly is the lance hidden by Tibetian monks. Our unpredictable heroes risk their lives against a set of the ambitious villains (Kyle Machlahan, Kelly Hu) you've ever seen.Entertained TV movie plenty of action-packed,tongue in cheek, adventures, love story and extremely funny. This one has a little bit of everything : rip-roaring action, thriller,Sci-Fi,fantasy,derring do and an exciting score by Joseph LoDuca. Along with a sympathetic Noah Wyle appear the habitual secondaries, as a deadpan Bob Newhart,a serious Jane Curtin and his likable mother well played by Olympia Dukakis. Besides Kyle MacLachlan as former Librarian. This enjoyable picture combines splendidly ¨Riger Haggard's mines of King Salomon¨ with ¨Spielberg's Raiders of the lost ark¨. Spectacular final scenes with excessive and mediocre use of computer generator special effects, adding a colorful cinematography by Alan Caso. For utter spirit-lifting bemusing you can't do better than this television movie. The picture is lavishly produced by Dean Devlin in partnership with Noah Wyle and TNT and efficiently directed by Peter Winther. Rating : 6,5, worthwhile watching.

This movie could only be comedy because we do not have clear water with rocks and falls in the amazon forest, treasure for Maya peoples was not gold coins and they used to live very far away from the rain forest, only Indian that live close to cities speaks Portuguese (better than Spanish of course). What should I expect in the next movie, Buenos Aires being the capital of Brazil? Ah... almost forget, we have a lot of falcons in the amazon forest so the Indian could wear falcon feathers (maybe they bought them at eBay). The studio should read a little more geography and history before making movies in other countries and cultures.

The Librarian series of movies has enough intelligent humor and 'cool factor' for adults, and enough 'cool factor' and zany action for kids ... a perfect fit for the family that would like to see an adventure movie without worrying about it causes nightmares for the kids or boredom for the adults.There are some posts criticizing this movie, and I can only imagine that they are from idiots who think that if the film doesn't have lots of bodies dripping gore it is somehow unworthy. Those people are entitled to watch what they want. They are not, however, entitled to ignorantly criticize a top notch family film just because they are too dim to appreciate it.A three movie series (so far), Quest for the Spear is the "origin story" for our intrepid hero, the new Librarian. Pushing this bird out of the nest has proved impossible, but events here conspire to finally have him face the world.If nothing else, the sheer presence of Bob Newhart and Jane Curtain guarantee good scenes, but the rest are also enjoyable. My wife and I, our son and daughter-in-law, and our 8 year old grand-daughter just watched this on DVD last Saturday.We ALL laughed a LOT. (and for the right reasons)