JACK HUNTER AND THE LOST TREASURE OF UGARIT (2008) ** For a fuller review, see Jack Hunter and the Quest for Akhenaten's Tomb. This one precedes that one, but I saw the other one first, and they're pretty much the same thing. Just that this takes place in Syria, and that one in Egypt. There is actually one scene where Joanne Kelly and Ivan Sergei start generating some real emotion, but apparently no one could figure out where to go from there or what to do with it, so it just gets kinda cut off. Syria looks very exotic, and some will find enough reason to watch in Ivan walking around a hotel room with his shirt off, or Joanne riding a horse. They do seem to be running away from or at least travelling towards most of the time, and the action that's supposed to break it up never really does, except maybe the finale. It's difficult to imagine the Hashashin much duller, but they do liven things up a little. Syrians behaving, seriously. If you're satisfied just watching something that isn't offensive in any way, but doesn't have much going for it either, this should do fine.
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