YetTheSoulObeys
Terrible film. Going in I knew it was going to be classic low-budget quality, but as someone who loves mythology and history I decided to give it a go. However it was without question a waste of time; terrible acting, writing, quality, and editing, the characters that should have been brilliant were about as quick as children, and tried to blatantly rip off Lara Croft and Indiana Jones, it was incredibly predictable, and I don't think any research was done (see the goofs section). I could go on, but I think you get the point.Don't waste your time on this like I did, I wish I had read the reviews here first because they said it all: Waste of time. :/
TheLittleSongbird
Watching Riddles of the Sphinx with little else to do, I was anticipating little and got almost nothing to write home about. Dino Meyer is a sexy and decently charismatic lead. However when it comes to redeeming qualities that's where Riddles of the Sphinx ends. The sets look minimal and nothing to done to make them interesting, and the costumes were reminiscent of the actors having had a fantasy-adventure movie fancy-dress party(or even about to have one). The editing is choppy and the effects particularly with the monster of the title are hopelessly cheap in quality. The script is aimless and filled with unfunny lines that were no doubt meant to be witty, and the story is structurally thin, unoriginal(if it was trying to pay homage to Indiana Jones it took the homage to extreme levels that it feels like a rip-off instead) and has no excitement whatsoever. The characters are badly-written clichés(SyFy clichés in alternative to genre clichés) with none of them likable or developed enough. I was especially irritated by the girl who seems to be cleverest of the bunch, I've seen that plot-device before and something about it always annoys me. The rest of the acting apart from Meyer suffers from the writing and characters, Lochlyn Munro is an especially unconvincing hero. Overall, with the exception of Meyer Riddles of the Sphinx just didn't engage. 2/10 Bethany Cox
leader-16
When i saw the preview for this last Saturday, i thought it was going to be a stupid mummy horror film. What i got was a future Indiana Jones story.Acting was alright for this, music was cool. I find it funny that he was dressed up like Indiana Jones, when there are supposedly in Greece, which is was probably just shot in a wooded area in Indiana or Canada, he was acting like Indy. That probably was the aim for this movie, and this is a rare treat, for those who like horror and comedy rolled into one. This has the potential of a Indiana Jones movie, too much actually, solving seven riddles to get rid of some transforming bird, (actually a gryphon most probably, it looked like one).The jokes kinda wore off, not real funny, it sounded like he was trying to be funny.OK movie i guess, i still have to see the other half of it before i make up my mind.
slstrongarm
The Sci-Fi channel. Despite having some really good original TV series, I always think of the network first and foremost as the "Disaster/Monster B-movie network". Even its documentaries are blatantly science fiction. That may come as a shock to some people, but dude, you CAN'T find a crystal skull with a metal detector...I only watched this movie because I was bored and I have a more than passing fascination with archaeology. I don't normally watch Sci-Fi Saturday.Now, as a writer, I understand that ideas are a dime a dozen, but I also know that we've been out of ideas pretty much since we've had the ability to HAVE ideas. That said, I understand the similarities to The Librarian and Indiana Jones, but COME ON! Don't make the hero of this movie dress IDENTICALLY like Jones! That's just taking the similarity too far!I applaud the idea of a female hero, but don't make her so gung-ho about guns that she admits they're her "security blanket" and continues using them after realizing time and time again the hard way that the monster's completely bulletproof.I can also understand the need to draw in the young adult demographic, but having the tweenaged girl be a complete genius and outthink the adults in almost every scene smacks of badly written Mary Sue fanfiction, especially if the concerned father seriously makes such a stupid decision as to take the kid into the heart of the war in Iraq(wearing bright pink no less), let alone repeatedly exposing the kid to an invulnerable monster when there's a perfectly good hidden sanctuary where she'd be safe. There's a reason why we have satphones, people.As for the writing, the movie was so completely predictable, it's hard to come up with a suitable adjective to describe it.
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