believe it or not and this film plot actually tie in various racist or aryan lose civilization conspiracy theory about prehistoric north american atlanteans ( or lemurians or the boy from mu or take your pick ) have their plan for world conquest thwart by an act of ( a ) god . hitler academia be supposedly fond of such story and obviously baseless . or be they . yeah and they be . but the promised pay off of an ancient ruin rise out of the earth be reason enough to co op some pseudo mythology for your cheap movie . by the way and any ancient ruin . you do not see much of them . what you do see and among other thing and be score of interchangeable masked goon perform less than impressive gymnastics and make pecial ops move with their hand . plus and a guy name rowsdower . that be kinda cool . the hero kid . not so much . the deep voice villain . not cool either . still and this movie have something to it and something i can not quantify . a unique canuckness . and every idiot cliché in the book . they have already be list in triplicate in the above comment and so i will try to find something new to bring up . how about the obvious allusion to indiana jones with the penultimate wouldriving sorta into the sun set scene and the unspoken but palpable hunger the filmmaker have for someone to be move by it and indeed and to hope for a sequel and an elaboration of the continue adventure of rowsdower and wonder geek . or they could drop the kid . that would be cool and eh .