The Jewel of the Nile is the sequel to Romancing the Stone and again we see Jack (Michael Douglas) and Joan (Kathleen Turner) back on the chase this time for the mystical Jewel of the Nile in Africa but Omar (Spiros Focas) and Ralph (Danny Devito) are also on their trail.
Jewel of the Nile well it's not a terrible movie and I will get to that in more detail but it is also a sequel that really struggles to justify its existence as its key problem is that it lacks the romantic novel charm Romancing the Stone had which was also a rousing adventure in the style of Indiana Jones but at least the style and structure of it felt at times like a romance novel whereas here that charm and style of characterization is gone and as a result the film as a whole really suffers.
What is also the other main problem with this film is that the quest and the people surrounding that are no fun to watch and they come across as very bad stereotypes that either are always wanting to kill each other and also sound like they're applying for a job at the Kwik-E-Mart and it gets really bothersome rather quickly and how the quest resolves itself well as I said it makes you leave the film asking yourself "Why did you bother?"
But this film as I said is not terrible and the main reason for that is Devito who easily has the film's best comic moments and I liked the Billy Ocean song "When the Going gets Tough, The Tough Get Going" which plays at the end of the film but even then it feels like I'm giving this film faint praise.
And so Jewel Hunters, the Jewel of the Nile is not a bad sequel but it's one that really didn't need to be made all that much, Romancing the Stone ended just fine and frankly you should just watch that one and skip this one, 1.5 out of 5.
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