jalapenoman Mormon cinema attempts to create it's own version of National Treasure (a team of people following clues to find hidden treasure) in this movie.Okay, the acting is not the best and the story is not the greatest. It was, however, better than some of the really bad Mormon cinema (Out of Step, The Home Teachers, Church Ball) and not as good as others (The Singles Ward, The Errand of Angels, The Best Two Years).The craft needs time to grow and develop and movies like this are going to come out in the process. It can make for an enjoyable Family Home Evening, but will never win any Oscars.Understandably, you are going to hate this film if you are not LDS.

John B Sheffield It is good that we are allowed to express personal opinions, never have I seem one so biased against a new movie than the first published here in IMDb.One Man's Treasure is a real enjoyable movie and the young actors/actresses do a superb job (okay I can fault the false English accent used by one of the cast, but that is a typical American perception and so wrong) I have purchased every one of the Producer JOHN LYDE'S movies, he started with real short movies first and they have all been so well produced and they have introduced many good young actors, most of them not being full time professional.If you purchase the DVD which I recommend, there is a making of feature and John Lyde is totally honest of how limited the budget is on a production like this, but you would never know unless you are going to be over critical. By the way I am not a member of the LDS Church.Well done John.

Joe McDonnell Just totally, stupendously terrible. Never watch this film. It's incredible to think that good money was spent in the making of it. There's a full orchestral score, which sounds like it was played live - that can't have been cheap! Disastrous is too generous an adjective. The acting is worse than "School Play," the script is choke-on-your-tongue guff and the direction is just bloody appalling. Why did I watch this at all? Because I was practically catatonic after two days on the sauce, and it was hilarious! Probably not the intention of the film-makers, but that's what got it the single mark out of ten.Advise a long, cold shower after giggling like a mindless child at this dross.

jazzfinder I haven't seen this movie yet but I've found an interesting review from Mormon Times here:http://www.mormontimes.com/arts_entertainment/movies/?id=5973================================ (This review contains spoilers) ================================'One Man's Treasure' absorbing flick By Sharon Haddock - Mormon Times Monday, Jan. 26, 2009"One Man's Treasure" certainly isn't a perfect film. The acting is a little stiff, with lines delivered somewhat woodenly, and there are a few problems here and there in the logic behind the story development. But it's well-done enough that when the picture on the screen started to break up and digitize, people in the audience were quite unhappy.Everyone wanted to know what happened and see the cast of missionaries find the treasure.This Candlelight Media movie -- created and directed by John Lyde -- tells the tale of a half-dozen missionaries sent off to serve in a wasteland area.One uptight elder about to finish his mission (played by Darin Southham) is majorly disappointed to be assigned "to babysit" three other missionaries in a place no one had been for years. His reaction to his plight is to tighten the reins and attempt to force his laid-back companion, played ably by Charan Prabhaker, to strictly obey the rules and meet a minute-to-minute regimen.He has no time for nonsense, yet he joins in the game left to the elders by the last missionaries to serve in Bristol, Penn. (or American Fork/Salt Lake City judging by the signs for Tracy Aviary and the American Fork Library).Sister missionaries played by Chantel Flanders and Shalaina Fotheringham and the companionship made up of Dustin Harding and Paul Hunt round out the cast which spends P-Day (a remarkably long and sunshiny P-Day) tracking down clues and finding the hidden treasure.The story is entertaining and, again, absorbing enough that it's very disconcerting to be pulled off-track not only by a scratched disc but by the occasional cinematic mistake.For instance, the town of Bristol, purportedly a desolate, trash-laden hamlet, suddenly has a beautiful tree-lined cemetery and gorgeous sunlit streets.Missionaries dressed in clean white shirts and beige sweaters can somehow climb into dusty basements and under a stage to emerge without a smudge.A tarantula crawls about in the dark and spooky Pennsylvania basement. Not sure tarantulas are native to Pennsylvania, but it's good video.And the elders somehow expect there to be food on the open shelves in an apartment that's been abandoned for years.A British missionary used to driving on the left side of the "motorway" drives without disaster on a Pennsylvania freeway.Clues left here and there -- stuck in books, door jams and behind mailboxes -- are intact.(It's amazing as well that elders who have only just arrived in a new area, know where the bakeries and cemeteries are and can get there on their bicycles in pretty good time.)There's also time along the path to the treasure trove to, let's see, change a flat tire, help an old man move a bunch of cement blocks, fix an overheated car engine, set up 200 chairs in a cultural hall, find a select bakery, tour a bird aviary, change clothes, do some laundry and teach a discussion -- all in a single afternoon.But if one can put aside these logistical problems, it's a pretty good movie.It won't ever make the big time, but for a light comedy and a story with some spiritual value, it's all right.