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List Price: $14.95 | | Label: Genius Products (TVN)
Salesrank: 7918
Released: May 5, 2009 |
| Our Price: $8.01 |
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MPAA Rating: Unrated
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
An ancient decoder has been stolen from a collection of Vatican art. When an archaeologist discovers its connection to the history of the Knights Templar she enlists the help of a NYC detective to find it before it falls into the wrong hands. Clue by clue, continent by continent, the quest is on to discover a secret that could change the course of history. Based on the #1 international best-selling novel.
The Last Templar Reviews:
Flawed but enjoyable 
2009-12-02 - Mira Sorvino plays Tess Chaykin, an archaologist who attends the opening night of an exhibition of Vatican treasures at the New York Metropolitan Museum. The event is interrupted when four horsemen, dressed as knights templars, rob the museum of some of the treasures, most notably an ancient decoder.
Tess has more success solving the crime than the FBI does and cooperates, reluctantly with FBI agent Sean Daley. They embark on a quest to find the killer and perhaps find the legendary treasure of the templars in the process.
This two part TV movie was based on a novel (see The Last Templar) and some changes have been made of course. I think they managed to get most of the important details from the novel into the movie, with one big exception: The villain's motivation. It is not very clear in the movie. There are some too many convienient coincidences that don't seem very credible.
The book was entertaining but not great and the same goes for the movie. After reading some reviews I thought it would be really bad and it had its flaws but I enjoyed it.
Is it just me or is the MOVIE WAY OFF? 
2009-11-09 - I just finished the book and was quite pleased. Very good all the way through and decent ending. Excited to see the movie I was disappointed in the very first scene. It was obvious they decided to stray from the book BIG time. For example in the movie: After they rob the museum, Tess chases after them and jousts Gus Waldron off his horse. Ridiculous!!!!! I was like WTF? It gets worse from there. Sean Reilys name is Sean Daily lol and the guy who plays him is the worst actor on earth. Mira Sorvino has no life to her. She sounds like a hot sexy robot shooting off lines. I watched it for about 10 minutes more and couldn't take it anymore. Didn't even bother. It's not even the same story. It's like they tried to change the events so it would seem fresh, but its worse. I don't know. I expected a lot more accuracy. I know movies have to do their thing but this is ridiculous. At least the Da Vinci Code and Angles and Demons had everything the way it was in the book. Honestly if you want to watch it for the sake of watching a movie, more power to you. But it's not like the book and the events are frustratingly dissimilar. I passed on it. You should too.
A movie of the week at best
2009-09-23 - Yawn! This movie was too long and too far fetched! This low budget film would be best as a lifetime movie. Cheap and cheesy romance novel comes to mind and that can be ok but never this long!!!!!! Don't waste your money or your time. We like one of the other readers kept falling asleep. I like the actors but at some point I wonder why they didn't turn to the director and refuse to utter nonsense.
what pleases me 
2009-09-01 - This movie is all the excitment one needs. Acting is surpurb, so is the story line.
3 hours of Long and Boring
2009-08-15 - This movie is 3 hours of boredom. Maybe they could have edited out eighty minutes of horrible dialog. I fell asleep so many times. Five of us watched it and all were disappointed.
Please read some of the other one star ratings. I do not want to waste anymore time on this movie but just want to warn others. I am amazed some people have watched it more than once. I feel I wasted 170 minutes of my life. BTW there are no deleted scenes and also Jerusalem is no where near the coast.
