These three adventures are basically low-rent Indiana Jones movies. Noah Wyle plays Flynn Carsen, an obsessive/compulsive nerdy student with 22 college degrees. Carsen is hired by the Library to retrieve the powerful mystical artifact, The Spear of Destiny. Of course, Carsen has to battle the Serpent Brotherhood, the Bad Guys who want to rule the world with the power of the Spear. In his second adventure, Carsen searches for King Solomon’s mines and clues to his father’s past. In the latest adventure, The Judas Chalice Carsen takes on vampires and former KGB operatives who want to form an army of the undead. These made-for-TNT movies are escapist fluff. GRADE: C+ (for all three)
Kinda fun to see Bob Newhart kick some butt, though.
I liked it when Bob Newhart strolled out of the Fountain of Youth as a little kid. Nice.
He just doesn’t have the gravitas to play an action hero in my book. Too cerebral or boyish.
If The Librarian series had gravitas, it wouldn’t be featured on the TNT network.