Mjeteconer Just perfect...

Claysaba Excellent, Without a doubt!!

ShangLuda Admirable film.

Dirtylogy It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Celticnationalist To the uninitiated Golan/Globus are Cousin's Menahem Golan & Yorham Globus who were prolific producers of trash throughout the 80's making such 'classics' as Death Wish 2,3 & 4 & Missing In Action 1,2 & 3 (basically keeping Charles Bronson & Chuck Norris in work) among seemingly endless amounts of other less than fantastic fare released through their Cannon Film Studio.So if you come into King Solomon's Mines knowing what to expect (In essence a low budget B-Movie, done with some of the worse dialogue imaginable,terrible visual effects and non-intentional hilarious scenes) you should be able to sit back leave your Brain at the door and enjoy.While I realise this was made to capitalise on the success of Indiana Jones - Nobody watching this should compare the two, If anything this is a Indy spoofRichard Chamberlain stars as Allan Quatermain who teams up with a young woman (a Pre-stardom Sharon Stone) to locate her Professor Father who's gone missing in Africa. This has action in bucket loads, plenty of Comedy (some of it intentional - some of it not), The Acting is very hammy - baddies Herbert Lom is hilarious as is John Rhys DaviesDirected by J.Lee Thompson (The original Cape Fear & The guns of Navarone) A great Director who sadly ended up making trash mostly starring Bronson for Golan/Globus.Filmed entirely in Zimbabwe - obviously back in that particular Country's good old days - Not Unsurprisingly it bombed taking just $238,000 on a $12,500,000 BudgetIt's not great film making, It'll never win any awards (apart from the Razzies) but as B-Movie fun it's good stuff.Surprisingly followed by a sequel (Yes! there's more) Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold was Filmed at the same time and released a year later.*** out of *****

Spikeopath Jesse Huston (Sharon Stone) is on a mission to find her lost father, she enlists the help of legendary explorer Allan Quatermain (Richard Chamberlain) and both of them set off on their perilous journey.Bland, routine and deserving of its reputation as an illegitimate sprog cash in of Indiana Jones. Director J Lee Thompson and his writers adapt H. Rider Haggard's classic novel and effectively hope that writing set piece after set piece will make for an exhilarating adventure movie. It doesn't. Bad script, bad acting, poor special effects, roller-coaster pacing, cringe-worthy dialogue and the sets look to have been knocked up overnight. It's not as if Chamberlain & Stone can't act, because they can, it's just that they are reduced to cartoon fodder and both look very uncomfortable in doing so. John Rhys-Davies adds some fun as Dogati but poor Herbert Lom phones it in as an ultimate caricature German villain. There's some interest in the pre-fame Stone's attire for the red blooded male, watch as her shorts grow steadily shorter during the film. And for the girls who like beards, well Richie Chamberlain sports a candidate for the world's tidiest beard throughout the adventure mockery; tho not quite as tidy as the frothy one worn by a big old fake spider.Don't believe those who say it's in the "so bad it's good" category, it's just terrible and you are strongly advised to seek out either the 1937 or 1950 version instead. 2/10

Aaron1375 While this movie is not as good as the first Indy movie "Raiders of the Lost Ark" or the third, "Last Crusade" it compares rather favorably to "Temple of Doom" and "Kingdom of the Crystal Skull". It mainly can compete with those two movies as it has a very fast moving story and for a low budget picture they sure do get a lot of places. The story follows Allan Quartermane and this girl who I don't recall her name played by Sharon Stone as they go on a quest for the lost diamond mines of King Solomon. They have to fight their way there through hordes of bad guys, have a train ride, have a couple of chase scenes and get caught by cannibals and nearly get cooked. Then they have to get through the mines guarded by a very annoying witch lady, in fact the movie would have been better had she never entered the movie, yes she is that annoying. Still, for a low budget movie that I am sure was trying to capitalize on the success of the Indy films this movie was rather good, much better than the very boring sequel.

infantincinerator84 I have always been a fan of this film since i was a little kid and even as i reached maturity i still enjoy it. man y people harp on this film because it "rips off" Indiana Jones... I think it has obvious similarities to Raiders of the Lost ark, but certainly not a "rip off" and i am a fan of Indiana Jones to the extreme...but thats another story.. point is... if you like low budget adventure mixed with good old 80's cheesiness, this movie is perfect for you. I recently picked it up at a yard sale on DVD and HAD to pick it up. It's full of amusing jokes and cannibals and of course Sharon Stone is easy on the eyes, though her performance is substandard to say the least, but damn, is it entertaining.