Greetings and salutations, citizens! Today, I have the distinct pleasure of informing and expounding on The Adventurer: Curse of the Midas Box, one of the few movies I’ve seen that I can recommend to basically everyone. Seriously, you’ll all love it.
The story centers on Mariah Mundi and his little brother, Felix, who are the children of two archaeologists at Oxford University in the latter part of the 19th century. The boys are soon transported into a world of danger and intrigue when a man named Will Charity wanders in during their father’s lecture and collapses. It turns out the Mundis are working for a department of the British government known as the Bureau of Antiquities. The Bureau is tasked with recovering and protecting dangerous artifacts. Will informs them that a man named Otto Luger has recovered the map to the Midas Box, an artifact that can supposedly turn anything to gold.
Luger is obsessed with powerful artifacts and will stop at nothing—including kidnaping Mr. and Mrs. Mundi, and even Felix—to get the box and use it to his own ends. With Luger’s henchmen hunting him, and no one else to turn to, Mariah joins forces with Will Charity to help locate his family. Luger has recently purchased the Prince Regent Hotel located on a distant island, so Will figures that the Box must be somewhere on the island. Will sends Mariah to the island in hopes that he can locate both his family and the Midas Box before Luger does. Can Mariah find the box and his family in time? See the movie and find out for yourself.
So, I said before that I can recommend this movie to basically anyone. Well, there are a few things parents should know before seeing it. It is a little violent, but tame compared to most movies today. Will Charity bleeds a lot. There’s a “beast” on the Prince Regent Island that captures children, but it turns out to be something else entirely. There is one scene that I had a big problem with, where Mariah and Sacha (one of the maids at the hotel) consult cards that were infused with the magic of a Gypsy to help them locate Felix and the Midas box. It’s one of those grey areas that we, as Christians, run into more frequently than we would like to admit. On the one hand, they’re practicing a form of necromancy. On the other hand, they’re not really trying to tell the future, or anything like that. Parents could use this opportunity to teach kids about the realities of the supernatural world.
Other than that, I really can’t think of anything negative to say about this movie. Seriously, the only thing I can say is I wish they made another!
Oh great!! I saw it on Netflix and was planning to watch it, but, it got taken off before I had a chance. I found it on the shelves at my library though (didn’t get it as I had already gotten something else and would only have time for one movie). Will be giving it a watch soon!!
However, based on what I’ve read of the books this was based on, I beginning to wonder if this is one of those times where the movie is better than the book.