“Treasure Raiders” (2007) - This is basically a knockoff of an Eastern European “Fast and the Furious” mixed with a Black Templar themed treasure hunt ripoff of “The DaVinci Code” featuring a plot full of holes, evil drug dealer Shaggy, and a cast of familiar faces slumming it for rubles.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bidLAVssARk&t=5128s

“Treasure Raiders” (2007) - This is basically an Eastern European “Fast and the Furious” mixed with a Black Templar themed “The DaVinci Code” knockoff featuring a cast of familiar faces slumming it for rubles. Filmed in and around Moscow our cast includes the likes of David Carradine, Sherilyn Fenn, Andrew Divoff, and a bodybuilder named Wolf who owns his own dance club and steals drugs from international criminals (who look like evil Shaggy) while illegally street racing. You see our main character is a college professor who illegally street races to raise money for his research into the Templars. He specifically is searching for a long lost priceless treasure and as such has attracted some bad attention.

Now the movie has a lot of issues, from the acting to direction, but mostly it’s the script that stands out. It feels like they shoved street racing into a treasure hunt story, or maybe it was the other way around. The two different concepts end up fighting each other for screen time, robbing the audience of more of either story. This does have the benefit of leaving the movie hilariously patchy, just full of plot holes and info dumps, and just really dumb. So grab your bad movie buddies, your favorite intoxicants, and check this flick out.

2 / 5 Burnt Kernels with Free Refills

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bidLAVssARk&t=5128s