Wednesday, August 16, 2017

The Mines of Kilimanjaro (1986)

Original title: Le Miniere del Kilimangiaro

Director: Mino Guerrini

Writer: Mino Guerrini

Composer: Luigi Ceccarelli

Starring: Tobias Hoesl, Elena Pompei, Christopher Connelly, Matteo Corsini, Francesca Ferre, Josette Martial, Gordon Mitchell, Franco Diogene, Peter Berling, Tino Castaldi, Al Cliver

More info: IMDb

Tagline: A Fortune in Diamonds in the Hands of the World's Most Evil Empire!

Plot: An American college student in 1930s Africa searches for a lost diamond mine near Mt. Kilimanjaro. He must battle Nazis who are using the mine to finance their war plans, Chinese gangsters and murderous local tribesmen.




My rating: 4/10

Will I watch it again?  Noooooooo.

I'm keeping this brief.  It's bad.  The dubbing is careless and some of the actors sound bored.  The synthesizer score is bland and uninspired.  I'd go lower on the score but it's not in incompetent mess.  This Italian knockoff of an Indiana Jones knockoff just doesn't do it for me at all.  The more I think about it, the more the awful music hurts the film.  It also doesn't help that I watched a crap VHS copy, either.  RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981) is my favorite movie so I'm more likely to watch an adventure film like this for that reason alone.  And being a fan of Gordon Mitchell's Sword & Sandal pictures from the 1960s.  He plays a smaller role in this one but he does play a Nazi with a big mustache (in case your bag is tall, older Nazis with big mustaches).  Skip this one altogether.  I wish I had and I was only passively watching it while I worked in my office.  Ugh. 

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