The Librarian: Quest for the Spear (2004)

SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

i know i wasted 90 mins of my life.

A Disappointing Continuation

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

First part of the Librarian series with lots of entertainment and fun.This outing in the popular ¨The Librarian franchise ¨(1ª Quest of the spear-2004- by Peter Winther, 2ª Return king Salomon's mines by Peter Winther and 3ª The curse of the Judas Chalice-2008- by Jonathan Frakes) concerns on Flynn Carsen(Noah Wyle), the roughest, toughest,silly, and botcher hero with 22 university degree . Flynn receives a note from a strange book captioning that has been selected to an interview at the public Metropolitan Library. Flynn is appointed as the new Librarian and assigned missions around the world and recover priceless objects guarded into Metropolitan library where are the Sacred ark, Lance of Longinus, box of Pandora, Arthur's Excalibur blade, the skull of crystal, Saint Sheet of Turin, the magic flute, among others. Meanwhile Flynn is having problems , he just doesn't time for his life and relationship . Now he must find the lance of Longinus which holds supernatural powers and has been robbed by the serpent's brotherhood . He goes to Amazons jungle looking for tracks .Flynn accompanied by a beautiful adventurer (Sonya Walger) discover a Maya temple and later on they head to Himalaya where allegedly is the lance hidden by Tibetian monks. Our unpredictable heroes risk their lives against a set of the ambitious villains (Kyle Machlahan, Kelly Hu) you've ever seen.Entertained TV movie plenty of action-packed,tongue in cheek, adventures, love story and extremely funny. This one has a little bit of everything : rip-roaring action, thriller,Sci-Fi,fantasy,derring do and an exciting score by Joseph LoDuca. Along with a sympathetic Noah Wyle appear the habitual secondaries, as a deadpan Bob Newhart,a serious Jane Curtin and his likable mother well played by Olympia Dukakis. Besides Kyle MacLachlan as former Librarian. This enjoyable picture combines splendidly ¨Riger Haggard's mines of King Salomon¨ with ¨Spielberg's Raiders of the lost ark¨. Spectacular final scenes with excessive and mediocre use of computer generator special effects, adding a colorful cinematography by Alan Caso. For utter spirit-lifting bemusing you can't do better than this television movie. The picture is lavishly produced by Dean Devlin in partnership with Noah Wyle and TNT and efficiently directed by Peter Winther. Rating : 6,5, worthwhile watching.

'The Librarian: Quest for the spear' stars Noah Wyle as Flynn Carsen a rather geeky full-time Student who still lives with his mother and gets given a mysterious invitation for an interview at the Metropolitan Public Library. After his interview the library employee (Jane Curtin) and library head Judson (Bob Newhart) give Flynn the mysterious and secretive position of the 'Librarian' a job which has existed for centuries and its purpose is to protect historical and sometimes magical objects in a secret, well guarded section of the Library. Among the objects contained inside include Pandora's Box, Excalibur, The Holy Grail and the Ark of the Covenant.Soon after Flynn takes the job on thieves belonging to the evil serpent brotherhood break into the Library and steal one of the parts of the 'Spear of destiny' and whoever holds all three pieces can control the entire World, so Flynn is given the task of finding the other two pieces somewhere in the World before the Bad guys do.A tough Lara Croft-type Library employee (Sonya Walger) joins Flynn on his expedition to try and keep him out of harms way as they travel deep into the Amazon Rainforest.The Librarian: Quest for the Spear is hugely enjoyable with plenty of Action & Adventure that isn't a world away from Indiana Jones in vein, Wyle is likable and the rest of the cast do a really good job - and while this was a Made for Cable Movie, a fair bit of money was spent and it has pretty good special Fx - I can't find many if any faults with it.Followed by The Librarian: Return to King Soloman's Mines & The Librarian: Curse of the Judas Chalice.

You can not watch "The Librarian" without thinking about Indiana Jones, but this is NOT Indiana Jones. The best part is that they know it. This is a made for TV movie, produced by TNT. And it feels the part. At times it feels like a good adventure film and other times it feels like a guilty pleasure, fantasy/adventure show that is just so bad it's good and it makes you smile.Flynn Carsen (Noah Wyle) may come close to matching knowledge with Dr. Jones, but, unlike Indy, finds himself quite out of place in the wild and dealing with bad guys holding guns. However, rather than attempt to come up with a single character that could hope to rival the good doctor, the filmmakers cleverly decided to split him in two. The machete-wielding and villain-stomping is covered by Nicole No one (Sonya Walger). The two make a perfectly matched team who both get the chance to show off their strengths.I found the movie interesting and, most importantly, entertaining. I was never bored and I was pleasantly surprised. Not every movie has to be life-changing or groundbreaking, some are just fun. Judging from and A to an F, I give it a solid B. Maybe a B+. And I do enjoy a good B movie.

if we allow the magic and wonder to manifest! my favorite...a comedy? romantic/ adventure movie. a great and complementary cast. a cast such as this makes it an extra special film right from the get go. another movie that blends history and fiction it such a adventurous way that it undoubtedly leads people to understand that such sought after "relics" and treasures as the holy grail, spear of destiny, Excalibur, and others are metaphors for the mystical and spiritual...and is done in a heck of a more fun way than those literal dry, boring stories in religious or history books/movies! and if people take special attention they will have the sense (as in so many movies) that the girl and boy have "known" each other before...almost always recognized by the girl first. have fun with this lighthearted movie and contemplate on how much fun it would be to be engaged with your own adventurous quest!the only reason i gave this an nine instead of a ten is probably just for the fact that they didn't have the huge budget some of these films have for specisl effects. and i really wish these movies i review would get the exposure they deserve.