Action! Adventure! Antiquities! Homage's to "Indiana Jones" and "Romancing the Stone" as Syria is ground zero for the latest archaeological mystery and chase for the artifact between good, evil and those who are just in it for the money.

Jack Hunter (Ivan Sergei) is our "Indy" protégé of a professor who stepped in after Jack's parents deaths in college to set the boozing and drugging grief-stricken kid right.

The film opens with a "Mission: Impossible" inspired scene where Jack is on a caper. Just back from France after he swipes a tablet engraved with a treasure schematic in the ancient language he speaks, Jack returns to his professor's study to find him murdered, and the prized tablet stolen. The handsome lead is galvanized to go to Syria, find the murderer(s) of his mentor and solve the artifact's cryptic mysteries to honor the fallen academic's life-long work.

Piece of cake right? Not. Waiting for our hero is one comely Syrian babe Nadia Ramadan (Joanne Kelly) who was educated in the States and now protects the country's ancient treasures, and one badass German excavating ruins past his welcome (our Dr. Belloq if you will), Littman (Thure Riefenstein) who has a bit of a crush for our Miss Nadia, and is working for the bad guys (Russians, who else?).

And while all of this skullduggery and cat and mouse is underway, the noble Hashasheen of Syria try to protect their super secret lethal gift from Allah left to their watchful eyes.

The initial meeting of Jack and Nadia is right out of a play by Douglas and Turner in "Romancing the Stone." The two actors have real chemistry and as the plot thickens, they naturally bond and partner in bad guy beat downs and spelunking ancient Scorpion-filled caves.



CAST:
Jack Hunter and the Lost Treasure of Ugarit
Ivan Sergei - Jack Hunter
Joanne Kelly - Nadia Ramadan
Thure Riefenstein - Albert Littmann
Susan Ward - Liz
Mario Naim Bassil - Tariq
Mehmet Polat - Doridanov

Jack Hunter and the Quest for Akhenaten's Tomb
Ivan Sergei - Jack Hunter
Joanne Kelly - Nadia Ramadan
Thure Riefenstein - Albert Littmann
Alaina Huffman - Lena Halstrom
Susan Ward - Liz
Mario Naim Bassil - Tariq
Tuncel Kurtiz - Said
Sinan Tuzcu - Mustafa
Savas Özdemir - Riyad
Alper Kul - Eyhab
Mehmet Polat - Doridanov
Orbay Sayu - Boat captain
Volga Sorgu - Truck driver
Emre Cosar - Egyptian soldier

Jack Hunter and the Star of Heaven
Ivan Sergei - Jack Hunter
Joanne Kelly - Nadia Ramadan
Thure Riefenstein - Albert Littmann
Alaina Huffman - Lena Halstrom
Susan Ward - Liz
Mario Naim Bassil - Tariq
Mert Yavuzcan - Fuad Antaki
Teoman Kumbaracibasi - Petrovsky
Fatih Haciosmanoglu - Inspector Fatih
Mehmet Polat - Doridanov
Michael Halphie - Armen Antaki
Esin Eden - Widow
Tansu Biçer - Monk
Silay Ünal - Young woman
Lilie Lossen - Nun

DISC 1
1. Jack Hunter and the Lost Treasure of Ugarit

DISC 2
2. Jack Hunter and the Quest for Akhenaten's Tomb

DISC 3
3. Jack Hunter and the Star of Heaven


Complete 1-3; 3 DVD's
Quality = 9.5 out of 10
Wide Screen in English, no subtitles, no commercials.

Price $23.50USD