The Jewel of the Nile

[The script] seems to consist of shouted dialogue and descriptions of action scenes. Lewis Teague's direction doesn't help; the extreme closeups seem aimed for the cassette audience.

Director Lewis Teague uses the frame the way a magician uses a hat or a handkerchief: surprises are always popping into it, or out of its shadows.

It's to everybody's credit that The Jewel of the Nile is an ambitious and elaborate attempt to repeat the success of the first movie; it's not just a ripoff.

...the film’s mild success, at the outset, is due almost entirely to the irresistibly personable efforts of its two stars...

A pesky sort of sequel, not so bad that one reviles it for good but sadly just good enough that once a decade or so you will find yourself giving it another chance and wasting another two hours finding out that it really is simple mediocre entertainment.

Death and peril are entirely unbelievable, while amorous bickering feels forced and inauthentic.

It's a fairly amusing bit of escapist fluff-as long as you remember to hit the "off" button on your political consciousness when the theatre starts to darken.

Turns unnecessarily nasty with its racist depiction of Arabs and a barrage of racist jokes.

Reunited and it feels so bad.

OK, but weak sequel to the first Douglas-Turner outing.