À la poursuite de la pierre sacrée

They must have paid Klaus Kinski some major dinero for this stinkeroo. YIKES!!!! It is hard to imagine that the great Kinski and Uli Lommel could team up and have a product so sorely lacking in any professionalism whatsoever. I've seen better acting and directing on the TBS monkey channel. I am not going to begin to comment on the movie itself which is so ridiculous as to not even warrant any type of review so as to justify it as a real movie. Based on what I watched (painfully so), the movie should have been filmed on video tape using a hand held home video camera. The budget of this film; about 3 or 4 dollars after Kinski's salary; was more than this disaster deserved. Klaus...you done yourself wrong buddy. But...if you are the Kinski completist then this is definitely a must own...if you can find it. Actually it does exist on PAL vhs and was, believe it or not, released on home video. Hard to imagine that this film ever had a theater debut. If it did I am certain the every movie goer wanted their money back. And I am doubly certain that if there were a premier of this movie, Kinski most certainly did not attend out of shame.

The "acting" is very bad because the directing is very bad. It has a bunch of nonsense and a tacked-on forced plot via voice-over. Yet, it was semi-enjoyable bad not "OMG is it over yet?" 20 minutes into the movie bad. The locations and colors were nice and saved it from looking like something anyone with a camera could have made. Kinski is limited in his appearance and doesn't give any notable performance (again, bad acting thanks to the director, but not the enjoyable over-acting you can see Kinski to lots in other movies.) Most likely if you watch this you'll just sit around going "why did I decide to watch this?" as you twiddle your thumbs and shake your head.

I wasn't expecting much from looking at the reviews here, but the preview was cool so I went ahead and bought the VHS for a cheap price. This turned out to be fun from start to finish. The only negatives are that some of the coolest characters kept dying or only appearing for short scenes and the movie itself was too short. It left me wanting more of the strangeness. The main actor and actress were likeable and corny. The setting was great. The gore was not gross, but just funny. It had bit of an Indiana Jones vibe, but still isn't really a kids movie. Anyway, this needs some positive reviews. Definitely a movie for me to enjoy again and again. Thank you Ulli Lommel for directing this unique piece of art.