Desertman84 The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines is the second in The Librarian franchise of TV movies.It stars Noah Wyle as Flynn Carsen,the former perpetual college student who now acts as the librarian that protects a secret collection of artifacts.Gabrielle Anwar, Bob Newhart, Jane Curtin and Olympia Dukakis co-star in it.In this sequel,we get re-introduced to Flynn Carsen,a holder of twenty-two university degrees - twelve bachelor's degrees, six master's degrees, and four doctorate degrees - that were earned by staying in a university until he reached 30 years.After he was expelled,he found a job as a librarian and managed to supplant the motives of the evil men who intend to steal artifacts in the first film.Now,we get to see him get back in his apartment wherein the map of the King Solomon's Mines apparently have been stolen from his possession.Not wanting to let the evildoers accomplish their mission,he goes into a high risk adventure to recover the stolen map.This TV movie is fun.I was surprised that the sequel was just a good as the first one since it was both enjoyable and entertaining.Noah Wyle still provides a great performance as Flynn Carsen.The viewer gets to see him change from being someone who is used to the university life to now being someone who is all out when it comes to high risk adventure or better yet heroism for he has become a man who would not want evildoers to prevail.It is also worth noting that the movie provided good laughs and humor aside from great action.While it maybe far from being realistic,it remains worth watching for mindless entertainment.

lani4-886-903615 I love the other two The Librarian movies, they are a lot of fun and I love this movie too, at least as much of it as I could understand. For some unknown reason there are only Spanish subtitles (in Canada?) but no English Subtitles or English Closed Captions for this movie although the other two have English text for those of us who are hard of hearing. I'm one of them. And sadly there are whole conversations and scenes where I may be able to understand what one person is saying but the other person's lines are completely unintelligible, usually Gabrielle Anwar's lines but sometimes Noah Wyle's are too. Occasionally I have no idea what either of them has said and I don't read lips well enough to figure it out either. I'm not that deaf, only about a 50% loss in one ear and the other ear is fine but I do find that often in newer films people speak a lot more quickly than they used to speak and often their enunciation is sadly lacking. They've forgotten about speaking at a 'listening pace' and sadly this movie has that problem more so than the other two. Even repeated viewings have not helped nor has increasing the volume until it becomes almost uncomfortably loud. Please, someone, re-issue this movie with English CC or Subtitles. Please! We have searched in vain to find another release with CC in English in DVD or Blu Ray but have not been able to find one.We both like these movies enough to buy another copy of this one if it had CC in English.

ma-cortes This second outing in the popular ¨The Librarian franchise ¨(1ª Quest of the spear-2004- 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 is assigned missions around the world and recover priceless objects guarded into Metropolitan library where are the Arthur's Excalibur blade, the skull of crystal, Saint Sheet of Turin, the magic flute, among others. Now he must to find the King Salomon's mines who ordered the building of the Temple by the 24 masons. He goes to Casablanca looking for a Salomon's key of map. There he encounters the tomb of Ptolomeo, the famous father of astronomy and geometry .Flynn accompanied by a beautiful archaeologist(Gabrielle Anwar) head to Kenia where allegedly is the Salomon's treasure. Our unpredictable heroes risk their lives and limb against a set of the nasties(Erick Avari) villains you've ever seen.Entertained TV movie plenty of action-packed,tongue in check, 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, Jane Curtin and his likable mother well played by Olympia Dukakis. Besides cameo by Jonathan Frakes as passenger in the Magic Honeymoon bus. 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 Walt Lloyd. 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. Efficient direction by Jonathan Frakes, the notorious Star Trek's commandant Riker.He's an expert filmmaker in Sci-Fi genre and TV episodes : Star Trek, Roswell,Masters of science fiction, Twilight zone, among them.

fimimix ....hmmmmm....only a total of 24 comments, not the 10 pages for the first film. Understandable, because this serial really doesn't have much going for it, except Dukakis ("Mom") who wants her nerd son to get all the nookie he can get. All I can offer is that I got sucked-into this movie, because it was telecast (TNT) with the other two episodes. I was waiting for "The Chalice," because I thought it might be a kind-of "DaVinci Code" film. Wow! what do I know ??? The notion of there being a "King Solomon's Mines" is a good theme - after all, "The Queen of Sheba" traveled all the way to Jerusalem to partake of Solomon's wisdom. Remember that film?, and all the riches she took there? I guess the premise of "the mines" is where all her riches were hidden. I'm not sure just what author Marco Schnabel had in mind when he wrote the script (his family was famous for many decades for making pianos); whatever it was, he must have been high on cocaine or just needed the money that Wyle ("Flynn Carsen") was waving. I think director Johnathan Frakes directed the whole thing on the phone, from home. BTW, a much earlier version of "King Solomon's Mines" was a very serious film with Clark Gable (?) and a host of very big stars, and very well-done.Like some other user who posted a comment here, I couldn't get it straight why the main characters were doing all that walking. By now, the whole world knows that Africa is full of Land-Rovers particularly suited for traveling that continent. What a shock to learn at the end of the film, the guide already knew where the mines were.....guess he needed the money, too. I, too, thought the scenes with the beautiful African natives were a little tacky, and wasn't the least bit awed by the female lead (whoever she was) wearing one of their ancestral outfits.Although Noah Wyle's ("Flynn Carsen") acting was a bit more polished than in "The Spear," I liked him better in his nerdish, dumb role. At least it provoked laughter. I wasn't the least bit impressed with all the CGIs and explosions, except for their colors. Perhaps Wyle knew they would attract a much younger audience....I don't really remember too much about this film. I might be persuaded to buy the whole set of "The Librarian" if it sold for about $30.00. Otherwise, I'll only watch it when TNT feels compelled to present its own films.Bob Newhart ("Judson") and Jane Curtin ("Charlene") portrayed their roles well, but Curtain's drunk-scene was a bit much and out-of-character. I suppose the rest of the cast performed their roles well, but I was too bored to pay attention.So, on to the next chapter.......hopefully with a story-line. Must admit this colorful film looks great on HD-TV. So, a 10.....