Richard Dutcher who did some good films regarding contemporary Mormon life came up very short with Templar Nation which was his effort to imitate the two National Treasure films.

According to this movie we should forget what we learned there about the Knights Templar and how they survived in secret and left an enormous treasure in the bowels of lower Manhattan. What really happened is that they made it all the way out to Utah and set up shop there after making an alliance with the local Indians.

What I was expecting and it didn't happen was that this would be an explanation for the lack of archaeological evidence for Joseph Smith's vision about a civilization that disappeared in North America. Something the LDS church has been very weak on. But Dutcher did not give us that.

What he did give us was a vision of what and how a Mitt Romney could capture the presidency. Mormons in fact can be Templars and can make the best ones.

All this is laced with Dutcher as father having a lot of issues with son Joseph James as they go on the dig for the Templar treasure. And of course those people who forced the Templars underground in medieval times are still on the hunt for them. They're Catholics you know.

Dutcher came up very short with this LDS ripoff of National Treasure.

This is a story for those who like conspiracy theories. The Nicolas Cage version was slightly better. In this film Alfred (Erik Estrada) who has "knowledge of many things" gets killed by a man of a secret order. We know the order is secret because the man wears a hooded robe with a triple cross on it. His friend William (Richard Dutcher) leads a dig in the desert which leads to a remarkable find, one you might be able to figure out from the title. While the killing is a mystery, those of us who spent their childhood watching Shaggy figure things out, should have no problem with a single suspect killing.

The skull prop was fake looking. I haven't seen teeth that white when bleached. The plot has hokey. The dialogue was a joke. The acting was extremely bad. Paul Pugmire couldn't deliver a line, and David Matochief Anderson didn't know what to do with his ridiculous lines. They plan on doing a sequel unless we can quickly repeal the first amendment and stop them.

It is overrated at PG-13 too. If you liked this film, many in this group also were part of "The Masonic Map" (2011) written by Joseph James who horribly played Robert in this film. James is 32 degree Mason and level 18 Wizard. This seems to be part of a group of films coming out of Salt Lake City.

Oh m god!!!!! Okay normally in fact 99% I don't listen to others, though I do like to speed over some reviews just to get an idea. I am usually Very, VERY , VERRRRYYYY easy in liking movies and try to see it for what it is. Well I sure as heck saw this one as TERRIBLE for what it was that's for sure!!! Not once have I actually agreed with viewers or the majority of them when they've said it's a bad or horrible movie, but in this case, They were right!!! THough even if I believed people I still like to experience things for myself. This has the WORSE acting EVER!!! Oh my god, Erik Estrada would have been better off doing local Liquor commercials in Vegas like Dan Akroyd or car dealership cheezy commercials. This was so bad I had to mute it when it came to many parts. And the ending when they are finding out everything, the Native American guy who cracks the wise joke about not only building casinos was just Awful!!! I felt so bad for HOW BAD, they were!!! I sure as heck don't see any future stars coming out of here. I'm mean I've seen cheezy movies buy bigs stars now, but not CRAPPY AND bad like this. I literally have day nightmares thinking about this. I mean it's one movie I'll remember that's for sure, so if that's what they were trying to do, then they succeeded. I made a home made project at 15 yrs old with olds school big video camera and let me tell you THAT was an A movie compared to this one. This movie doesn't even make the D list cut. It's SOOOOOO bad that no alphabet should be assigned to it. I say burn the copies and any evidence of it!!! ALL OF IT!!!!