romance and adventure and sail the high sea and sinister villain who desire to rule the world and cliff top fighting and f 16 and courageous hero and bumble sidekick and dare heroine and over powering sandstorm and high speed train chase and mythical legend and desert runaway and native wrestling and pirate king and daydreaming and secret map and kidnapping and dastardly explosion and deadly death trap and and a couple who reunite in the shadow of doom . and to sum it all up and it a sequel to romance the stone . a sure masterpiece and you think . then you have yet to see the jewel of the nile and that rare film that destroy a reputation and a career . the movie take a turn for the worse when the opening sequence present itself . it be only a daydream scene and but oh and what a daydream it be . it feature jack ( michael douglas ) and joan ( kathleen turner ) get marry on a boat in the middle of the sea . the suddenly and a pirate captain invades their territory evolve into a fight with the same laughable quality a a middle school drama play . the script be all down hill from there and and trust me and it have to dig it way though the gravel and for it be already at the bottom of the barrel . then there the dialogue in which the subtext quality of the character conversation explain how they feel while an almost certain suicide for any movie structure represent show the character feeling be the right way of development and tell the audience about them be the wrong way . how about the film disappointing false second act . in which we first learn that the character will be search for a certain jewel and then half way though the production and the problem be solve and and a new one then open represent a villain name omar wish to take over the world . there we have it and two conclusion and neither of the two relate to one another and leave the audience to only wish that there be an actual storyline basis here . the entire second act do absolutely nothing to further the plot movement . and the villain and omar and who have zero dramatic structure to him . in a selected scene he be make to look dumber than a stump . in another and he devise a trap that not even einstein could have concoct . and the jack and joan character and who seem to look like they can take care of themselves and be save in every danger scene by a natural complexion rather than their own smart . none of the explained character contain anything of interest to the viewer . the performance be about as good a anything else in the film . kathleen turner look like she would rather be in bed than on the set . douglas seem to have very little confidence in the screenplay and and danny devito be nothing but a pesky little goofball . how about the romance in which joan and jack argue one minute and make love the next . there be no imagination in the scene develop chemistry between their relationship . thus we never care about what go on between them . there be some comedy in the jewel of the nile and that be colorful and energetic . most of which isn not all that laughable and however . i do laugh a few time and though and but i do not think those scene be mean to be funny .