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      Treasure of the Four Crowns

      PG Released Jan 21, 1983 1h 37m Adventure List
      Reviews 32% Audience Score 500+ Ratings An adventurer assembles a team of daredevils to retrieve four mystical crowns from their heavily guarded resting place. Read More Read Less Watch on Prime Video Stream Now

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      Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times Unfortunately, Treasure of the Four Crowns is so much in love with its dandy new process that it spends too much time using it and too little time getting on with its story. Rated: 2.5/4 Jun 19, 2018 Full Review J.A. Conner Santa Cruz Sentinel There's more plot, humor, originality and literary quality in Bazooka Joe comic than this mess. Feb 7, 2019 Full Review Read all reviews

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      bernie h For it's time in movies was originally most popular for it's 3D presentation , had plenty of suspense and action. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Firstly, this is a early 80's movie. Secondly, if you see this movie, remember that this movie was done with the intention of being a 3D movie, for theaters, while wearing the blue\red 3d glasses... being that it is not in 3D, you'll still see a lot of clips in the film where objects jump at you from the screen. *aka jumpscares, ect.* The movie is similar to Indiana Jones but with less Indy hat & whip, and more of a Loot Mercenary catch and grab type movie. It's story is about a guy (J.T. Striker) who's given a mission to find a very special key that'll open the Treasure of The Four Crowns... It's been said that these Crowns contain jewels with un-surpassing and unlimited powers... All in all, I think it was a fantastic movie. The cast was well chosen. The plot has a good mixture of Dialog and action mixed to the batch. Not only that, but it shares some lore with ghost/poltergeist and inhuman technology (for the time this movie was set in). You just have to watch it to see what it's all about. 4.5 out of 5 stars! Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/04/23 Full Review Audience Member A Tale of Adventure, Romance, and FOUR...No Wait..TWO CROWNS--It has its redeeming qualities!! Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/22/23 Full Review Audience Member Doesn't hold up so well, with the caper and supernatural cult antics wearing on a bit. Rabal livens up the ending, however, and the 3D gouts of flame and `splosions are good fun. And the ridiculous, swampy coda is a blast. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 01/26/23 Full Review Audience Member Extremly bad rip off of Raiders of The Lost Ark,Treasure is a massivly low budget 3D mess that is badly made and virtually has no plot what so ever.Now an extremely all but lost film,I only give this a 10% for the theme music done by the master Ennio Morricone,which most likely cost more then the entire film! Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 01/26/23 Full Review Audience Member I don't get it. I love trashy Italian films and I love trashy Cannon films, but for some reason when the two are mixed it comes out disappointing. Hell even the Cannon film Jungle Raiders from Italian rip-off king Antonio Margheriti came out disappointing! Treasure of the Four Crowns sadly not only ranks as the worst the worst Cannon Indiana Jones rip-off I've seen but also the worst Italian Indiana Jones rip-off I've seen and to be honest that is quite a feat! The film begins with our hero (played by Tony "Tony") wondering into a castle in order to find a key. In his quest he gets attacked by birds, dogs and snakes and everything else but the kitchen sink. By the time he got to the key I was thanking God they didn't have him fight ghosts like in Get Mean. I spoke too soon as no shit our hero even has to fight ghosts in the castle that cause crows bows to fire and float in air. He even has boulders chase him in grand Indiana Jones fashion. They may be smaller than the Jones versions but these ones are badass as they are on fire! After 20 goddamn minutes of him going through the rip-off motions with no dialogue, we are finally introduced to some plot. Tony Tony arrives back home to hand over his employers the key. They state the key opens easy of the legendary "four crowns" and the two remaining crowns seem to be held in a high tech security hold that belongs to a Satanic religious cult. What! A Satanic cult! By this time in the film I was even questioning my own faith in God! Our hero is then assigned some forgettable sidekicks to go get the skulls, but will he be able to defeat the alarms, defeat the cult, and his own temptations? Does anyone care by this point? This film is just dreadful and to make matters worse the film, like the previous Anthony/Baldi team up Comin' At You!, was filmed in "Wondervision 3D" so it is plum full of all the typical 3D gimmickry of shit "flying at the camera". On 2D video our 3D film looks dull and blurry. The plot is just Z-Grade Indiana Jones material full of superficial characters and an absolutely boring "hero". Tony Tony juts looks too old and tired to be playing these parts (not as bad as Roger Moore circa A View to a Kill mind you) and his performance gives me the impression he didn't give a shit either. To be honest this was his final film and for actor Tony Tony and trust me I didn't shed a tear. He had some fun movies in the past but it was due time for him to retire. The film however hits its absolute low towards the end when our hero grabs the two gems in the "good" crown and the "evil" crown and these two powers causes him to mutant into a half-assed monster that shoots flames from his hands. I kid you not.... This not only sucks as an Indiana Jones rip-off but it sucks as a film in general. There's nothing, absolutely nothing to recommend about this turkey and it even fails to entertain on the B-movie level that so many of its Italian counterparts are so successful at. If you want an Indiana Jones rip-off with Entertainment value then see Cannon's King Solomon's Mines or some trashy adventure films directed by Antonio Margheriti. Treasure of the Four Crowns is a treasure not worth discovering. Even though the film sucked, I have to thank my friend Bill for locating me a copy. Thanks Bill for satisfying my curiosity! Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/17/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Movie Info

      Synopsis An adventurer assembles a team of daredevils to retrieve four mystical crowns from their heavily guarded resting place.
      Director
      Ted Kaplan
      Producer
      Yoram Globus, Menahem Golan
      Screenwriter
      Lloyd Battista, Jim Bryce, Jerry Lazarus
      Production Co
      Lotus Films Internacional S.A., Lupo-Anthony-Quintano Productions, JAD Films International Inc., Blum Group, M.T.G. Productions
      Rating
      PG
      Genre
      Adventure
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Jan 21, 1983, Limited
      Release Date (DVD)
      Jul 15, 2014
      Runtime
      1h 37m
      Sound Mix
      Surround
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