Le secret de l'arche

Frankly, it's not bad, movie wise. Probably interesting and suspenseful for my daughter's , sure I'd they've never seen such adventure movie before. From start to end one cliché, so much that you can almost guess the next scene, next sentence, next word.

Acting is at acceptable level.

What did struc me is that it is not a budget movie, in European standards probably even a high budget movie.... And that's why I watched it till the end, curious about how good Europeans can make their version of an Indiana Jones movie.

So, yeah, worth watching, I doubted between a 5 and 6 stars.... Not much more to say about it.

This movie had a lot of potential, but it totally went to waste.

Amongst its flaws, it had: stereotypical characters, obvious and despicable bad guys, disposable supporting roles, 100% unrealistic scenes all over the place, clichés that are literally plaguing (pun intended) the script of this movie, many discrepancies (the car plate in the hitch-hiking scene, the absence of a wall behind the confessional, the candles being lit everywhere, etc.), improbable plot developments, etc.

You can do "improbable" or "stereotypical" if you do it right. They didn't.

Also, one thing that bothered my enormously is that they said that "one century ago, the churches and monasteries got destroyed by earthquakes". And not ONCE they told about the first Armenian genocide, that began in 1915, during which the Turcs also ransacked / burned / destroyed the MAJORITY of churches and monasteries (source: Fayez El Hussein). And this is a HUGE dishonest move from the movie team to deliberately hide that historical FACT. An INSULT to the memory of the 1.5 million people who got killed during that genocide (of the 2 million who lived at that time). And I'm not even talking about the Hamidian Massacres, nor the massacres that are taking place presently and that nobody cares about...

The movie is botched. It reeks "amateur". They should have been more serious about it, and forego all the obvious flaws that are dragging this movie down. They really could have done something great. It's just that they didn't. They succumbed to the laziness and therefore riddled their movie with so many disappointing choices.