Wow! Such a good movie.

Best movie of this year hands down!

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Recently learning that there had been two sequels to the first Librarian movie, which I vaguely recall probably liking, I decided to watch them both. I started with the third movie, because it had the highest rating on IMDb, and I'm really glad I did, because if I'd watched this one first I probably would have decided not to even bother with the third one.There is just so much wrong with this movie. It is dragged down by too much of the Librarian's angst over his father, which turns out to be a poor device to propel an action flick. It's extremely predictable, and the plot is full of holes. Even in the smaller details, it fails. Anwar plays an archaeologist who, when she sees major undiscovered finds that any archaeologist would give her eye teeth for, reacts like a treasure hunter with no interest in archaeology. And the one-upmanship between her and Noah doesn't really work, feeling forced and not especially funny. Watch the third movie, Judas Cup, and just skip this one altogether.

I love the other two The Librarian movies, they are a lot of fun and I love this movie too, at least as much of it as I could understand. For some unknown reason there are only Spanish subtitles (in Canada?) but no English Subtitles or English Closed Captions for this movie although the other two have English text for those of us who are hard of hearing. I'm one of them. And sadly there are whole conversations and scenes where I may be able to understand what one person is saying but the other person's lines are completely unintelligible, usually Gabrielle Anwar's lines but sometimes Noah Wyle's are too. Occasionally I have no idea what either of them has said and I don't read lips well enough to figure it out either. I'm not that deaf, only about a 50% loss in one ear and the other ear is fine but I do find that often in newer films people speak a lot more quickly than they used to speak and often their enunciation is sadly lacking. They've forgotten about speaking at a 'listening pace' and sadly this movie has that problem more so than the other two. Even repeated viewings have not helped nor has increasing the volume until it becomes almost uncomfortably loud. Please, someone, re-issue this movie with English CC or Subtitles. Please! We have searched in vain to find another release with CC in English in DVD or Blu Ray but have not been able to find one.We both like these movies enough to buy another copy of this one if it had CC in English.

The first part of Librarian was a good project (a lot of humour, pretty good plot, Sonya Walger great as Nicole No one) and I really enjoyed it. Fortunately they've made a sequel, unfortunately they've taken completely different author for the scenario which was a huge mistake.In the second part the casting wasn't impressive (especially Gabrielle Anwar didn't fit in), the plot was weak, another huge mistake was moving toward the family themes (his father, uncle, etc.) and together with Nicole No one character the chemistry was gone and the humour just wasn't good enough.It was a good try, but creators missed the first movie example by miles.

The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines is a Hugely enjoyable sequel to the original 'Librarian',There is plenty of Action,Mystery,Intrigue and suspense, Beautiful Locations, Very Good Special Effects for a Made for Cable (TNT) Movie, Likable Performances from all the cast, and it looks like quite a bit of money was spent.You'll like this if you're a fan of The Indiana Jones Quadrilogy or National Treasure Series.***1/2 out of *****Followed by The Librarian: The Curse of the Judas Chalice