I gave it a 7.5 out of 10

Boring

Absolutely the worst movie.

A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

For a period drama set in colonial South Africa it is very odd to see people in the tavern wearing Nike T shirts. I get it was low budget but the only period features of this movie were the woman's dress and a steam train.

Oddly enough for an hour and 38 minutes of nothing the movie went by fairly fast as I waited breathlessly for the next thing to not happen. Senseless murders, a great white hunter that can't shoot straight and a safari without rifles, porters, tents or supplies. However, I guess that is all you can expect when you move king Solomon's Mines into the mid 1960s and it looks like you didn't have the slightest idea of how to make a movie. The Allan Quartermain in this movie is a joke and an insult to all lovers of the Allan Quatermain stories. Dialogue is lacking and weak, special effects none and the only interesting thing was about two worth minutes of National Geographic style footage which in itself made no sense either. With no beginning, a middle section of bad acting with a confusing storyline and one of the poorest endings ever, I don't recommend anyone wasting time watching this. I was going to rate this flick a 3/10 but I don't believe it's even that good. Finally, and this might qualify as a spoiler but is it really a "Temple of Skulls" when there's only a 20 or so skulls in the temple to begin with?

I was home sick one afternoon. Quite content, all warm and snugly in the basement, hot tea and the TV remote. What's on the Dish I ask, bored out of my head and not able to focus on much of anything but the TV anyhow....160 channels. Nothing on. But wait, a cheesy looking adventure movie. Hmmmm. It's got Alan Quatermain, and temples of skulls, that's gotta be good...No. No, no, and NO! It was everything and more the above criticisms list...Absolutely a terrible waste of everyone's viewing time. Who makes these movies, and why don't they wrap it after a few dismal "dailies", and donate the money to charity? Despite all the above inane, awful, embarrassingly awful scenes (you really did watch only to see if something would happen!), I couldn't get past the fact 4 people left on a treasure hunt in the wilds of Africa with street clothes, no weapons (on foot no less when half their journey took them down a well maintained dirt road), and a small rucksack (food? medical gear?, script? weapons? TP?, containing what????).With those obvious glaringly awful errors, shame on me for watching even another 20 minutes...it only got worse, and I turned it off. Then I got really sick!

They couldn't have made a worse movie if they had tried. I can't believe I actually watched it through to the end. Perhaps in the vain hope that it might have livened up. Not a hope. The acting was wooden. the plot was wooden the dialog was wooden in fact everything was wooden (except for the wildlife and even that was spliced in)and as for the directing, well a child of 3 could have done better. Can someone please explain how anyone can go off on safari in the African Bush without a trace of equipment save for an obviously well stocked handbag, being as her ladyships makeup remained almost perfect throughout, and a revolver. When Quartermain announced "we'll make camp here for the night" one had to wonder what with? Total and Utter Rubbish.