But this movie was shot for a fraction of the budget of any Hollywood blockbuster and is honestly almost as good. There are car chases, foot pursuits, exploding trucks, helicopters, grenade launchers, machine guns, luxury cars, and a seriously big tiger! Storyline: When the top salvage company in the world loses a billion dollars of 15th century artifacts, chief archaeologist Mave Adams hires ex - criminal Jack Riordan to track it down. This is the future of film making! Not only is it a ton of fun to watch, but it's also the future of movie making. Part of what makes the movie so exciting is that Mr. . When the top salvage company in the world loses a billion dollars of 15th century artifacts, chief archaeologist Mave Adams hires ex - criminal Jack Riordan to track it down.
Metal bends, the windshield shatters, and you completely forget that you are just watching a movie. When the top salvage company in the world loses a billion dollars of 15th century artifacts, chief archaeologist Mave Adams hires ex - criminal Jack Riordan to track it down. Blood, Sand, and Gold literally cost 0. With Blood, Sand, and Gold, he just proved that with enough raw talent and ambition you can make a full-length, blockbuster quality action movie for about the same amount of money that Christopher Nolan spent on just 30 seconds of the Dark Knight. Back at the company headquarters in Hong Kong - Mave's brother Mathew Harper and his general council Ernest have ulterior motives other than cooperating in the investigation. And here is the crazy thing: You really wouldn't know it was made for so little by watching it. Back at the company headquarters in Hong Kong - Mave's brother Mathew Harper and his general council Ernest have ulterior motives other than cooperating in the investigation.
Back at the company headquarters in Hong Kong - Mave's brother Mathew Harper and his general council Ernest have ulterior motives other than cooperating in the investigation. When an archaeologist discovers Sir Francis Drake's lost treasure in the Sahara Desert, it is promptly stolen and she sets off on a global quest to steal it back. It is gritty and real and absolutely exhilarating to watch. The action sequences are top notch, the locations are exotic, and the pacing is superb. Sure, the script has a few cheesy lines, it is an action movie after all , and none of the actors all relatively unknowns deliver a performance quite as memorable as, say, Heath Ledger did as the Joker. As Mave and Jack trace the stolen treasure along the same ancient routes Sir Francis Drake used, he uncovers more than just the lost artifacts - an entire conspiracy of blood, sand and gold.
As Mave and Jack trace the stolen treasure along the same ancient routes Sir Francis Drake used, he uncovers more than just the lost artifacts - an entire conspiracy of blood, sand and gold. Written by Do yourself a favor and buy this movie right now. If I were a Hollywood producer I would be terrified of Gaelan Connell. Connell and his crew didn't rely on special effects during any of the movie's many action scenes. As Mave and Jack trace the stolen treasure along the same ancient routes Sir Francis Drake used, he uncovers more than just the lost artifacts - an entire conspiracy of blood, sand and gold. When one of the bad guys gets chased straight off the roof of a building, the stunt guy really does go crashing into the hood of the car parked below. .
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