Bimini Code

My review was written in August 1985 after watching the movie on Prism video cassette.

"Bimini Code" is an amateurish adventure film shot two years ago on the West Coast and in the Caribbean, now making its debut in video cassette form.

Episodic storyline has two pretty girls, blonde Stacy and brunette Sheryl, running a skin diving shop in Catalina. When a local boy is kidnapped while playing near the ocean, the good samaritan gals decide to investigate and rescue him.

They discover that the boy found some containers that were part of a drug shipment. The evil Countess Magda von Cress (a hissable blonde with an eyepatch) is using the drug trafficking to finance her quest to find the lost Mayan Power Stone, which supposedly contains the secret of nuclear fusion and offers the holder unlimited power.

After numerous escapes and recaptures, the girls free the kid and then trek all the way to Aruba, Bimini and other Caribbean sites in a race for the stone. Ultimately they find it in a jar, but when exposed to water the stone dissolves, leaving them empty-handed.

Vickie Benson and Kristal RIchardson are good-looking leading ladies, but director Barry Clark and scripter Gabrielle Rivera unfold their adventures in flat, uninteresting fashion, emphasizing boring underwater footage and corny dialog.

I think the title was supposed to be "Bikini Code" (kind of makes sense), but someone hit the M key instead of K (they're next to each other on the keyboard) and everything got printed out with "Bimini", then because the budget was so low, they didn't have any money left to change it.

But I think if it had been called "Bikini Code", the movie would have made a lot more money. The viewers would know in advance that they were going to see a lot of hot babes in bikinis. So a BIG title mistake!

Another strange thing about the title: Shouldn't it have "The" as the first word? You know, like The Omega Code, The Da Vinci Code?

Laughable movie!

I probably need help, but I actually do enjoy this type of low budget escapism fare. The girls are nice looking eye candy and spend a great deal of time in bathing suits. They are out on the water on boats performing the adventure denoted in the plot outline. I haven't seen the movie for a long time, but I do have it on tape. That's a good thing because Bimini Code may never make it to TV despite having no nudity or profanity. Hulk Hogan makes only a cameo appearance.

I get so tired of slow moving, expensive, complicated, poorly lighted, boring, artistic (over directed) films featuring over acting performers, that a piece of junk like Bimini Code is a welcomed change of pace.