The Lost Treasure of the Grand Canyon
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The Lost Treasure of the Grand Canyon is a 2008 adventure sci-fi movie set in the Grand Canyon
Grand Canyon
The Grand Canyon is a steep-sided canyon carved by the Colorado River in the United States in the state of Arizona. It is largely contained within the Grand Canyon National Park, the 15th national park in the United States...

. The movie was due to be released in late November 2008 but the date was pushed back to December 20, 2008 due to unfinished filming.

Plot

In the late 19th century, a team of Smithsonian
Smithsonian Institution
The Smithsonian Institution is an educational and research institute and associated museum complex, administered and funded by the government of the United States and by funds from its endowment, contributions, and profits from its retail operations, concessions, licensing activities, and magazines...

 researchers have stumbled across a lost walled Aztec
Aztec
The Aztec people were certain ethnic groups of central Mexico, particularly those groups who spoke the Nahuatl language and who dominated large parts of Mesoamerica in the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries, a period referred to as the late post-classic period in Mesoamerican chronology.Aztec is the...

 city guarded by some evil spirits, including a "great flying serpent of death
Quetzalcoatl
Quetzalcoatl is a Mesoamerican deity whose name comes from the Nahuatl language and has the meaning of "feathered serpent". The worship of a feathered serpent deity is first documented in Teotihuacan in the first century BCE or first century CE...

." As days turn to weeks, Susan Jordan, the daughter of the professor leading the expedition, assembles a team to rescue her father and his colleagues from the clutches of the ancient Aztec warriors and their horrible serpent god.

Cast

Actor Role
Michael Shanks
Michael Shanks
Michael Garrett Shanks is a Canadian actor who achieved fame for his role as Dr. Daniel Jackson in the long-running Canadian-American military science fiction television series Stargate SG-1.-Early life:...

Jacob Thain
Shannen Doherty
Shannen Doherty
Shannen Maria Doherty is an American actress, producer, author and television director, known for her work as Heather Duke in Heathers , as Brenda Walsh in Beverly Hills, 90210 and its spinoff series 90210, and as Prue Halliwell in Charmed .-Early life and career:Doherty was born in Memphis,...

Susan Jordan
JR Bourne Marco Langford
Toby Berner Steward Dunbar
Heather Doerksen
Heather Doerksen
Heather Doerksen is a Canadian actress who has appeared on stage, and on screen alongside such actors as Kathy Bates, William H. Macy, Christopher Lloyd, and Jessica Alba...

Hildy Wainwright
Duncan Fraser Dr. Samuel Jordon
Peter New
Peter New
Peter New is a Canadian actor, voice actor and screenwriter.He received a 2002 Leo Award for Best Screenwriter , for episode #112 of the TV series Point Blank....

Isaac Preston

Production

The production for this film began in February 2008 and filming began on April 26, 2008 and ended on May 14, 2008, a 19 day stretch, in Kamloops, British Columbia
Kamloops, British Columbia
Kamloops is a city in south central British Columbia, at the confluence of the two branches of the Thompson River and near Kamloops Lake. It is the largest community in the Thompson-Nicola Regional District and the location of the regional district's offices. The surrounding region is more commonly...

 and Thompson-Nicola Region, British Columbia.

Reception

The reception of the film was generally poor receiving an average 2 out of 5 stars on Amazon.com and an average of 4 out of 10 stars on IMDB. Many blame this on the poor CGI, incoherent storyline and "d-grade" acting.

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