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The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

This movie is so uneven that it is hard to believe it is the work of one writer. After an interesting and exciting start with the daring robbery of a Vatican exhibit at a Manhattan museum by knights on horseback dressed as Templars, stealing treasures including (guess what) a Templar decoding machine. This part of the movie is a decent heist / caper movie, and it's hard to dislike Mira Scorvino in anything. Tess is a likable, plucky female (rich) archaeologist and single mom, who gave up her life of adventurous excavations to stay home and take care of her daughter as her dad never had. Scenes with homages to the "Indiana Jones / Tomb Raider" genre abound. Of course, our robbers made a fatal mistake by stealing a key discovery of her late father of the "Cross of Constantine".Interspersed are somewhat confusing and garbled flashbacks that look like blurred outtakes from "Kingdom of Heaven", which basically serve to distract one from the uneven scenes and obscure the pretense of a plot. We have in this movie unscrupulous archeologists, evil minions of the Vatican dedicated to assuring the truth stays buried, and cameos by the CIA, the FBI, and the NYPD. Scenes and dialog almost seem lifted at points from "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade", and absolutely miraculous coincidences and discoveries abound. Then we have the "recovery of the Titanic" portion of the movie, or is it "The Perfect Storm". I could talk about how sad this movie comes in the really wasted role of Omar Sharif as a Christian holy man on a Greek (?) island who rescues Tess and her FBI guy. The parallels between the ending of this movie on the cliff and parallel to "The Last Crusade" where the Templars' fake "Gospel of Yeshua" blows away in the wind. They treat ancient technology (an astrolabe) like it was a modern GPS.Worth watching for a laugh.

This movie includes stereotype against Muslim like many western oriented movies. The history knowledge of the scenarist is very limited that it is shown in the movie as if Mamelukes and Ottomans empires existed at the same time when Jerusalem conquered by Muslims. The scene in Bodrum-Turkey where they shoot the movie is not Bodrum at all and the plates number of the cars are wrong. In the movie, Turkey is represented as Arabic countries camels sands, cloths etc, it is not so actually. In Bodrum- Turkey, you may not even see native people, but tourists, since it is one of the most attractive touristic place in Turkey. Overall, it is not a good movie.

Sory but this film is suck....Especially the part about Turkey. Bodrum was shot like some town from the 3rd world, without even knowing the fact that every single person in Bodrum can speak English and I have never ever seen Bodrum like in the film! However Bodrum like Ibiza or something like that. But in the movie, Bodrum like Afghaninstan or Iraq. Thats not true. Also the movies and production, directing and acting are strictly amateurish.Stop wasting our time with this crap, NBC... maybe you wouldn't have to keep pumping this stupid stuff out if you didn't cancel good shows like Journeyman or My Own Worst Enemy. All you have left is Heroes, and that can't compete with 24 or House... NBC's golden years died with the ending of Friends and Seinfeld. Don't bother to watch it for anything other than the news.

No wisdom of information I thought the places Hollywood instead of Bodrum.Maybe their budget was low and made the casting at some sort of desert,The name Last Templar is good but the rest is emptiness. Like a black hole in film industry.But such a misinformation is unbelievable. I expected better from the Last Templar. Such Professional_Fakes shouldn't do such things.Bodrum is the place of history,entertainment,fun. A key place to visit with magnificent tastes.We expect better performance and production from film makers in the futureBest Regards