Jack Hunter is a 2008 Americanarcheologicaladventurefilm series It consists of three parts: Jack Hunter and the Lost Treasure of Ugarit, Jack Hunter and the Quest for Akhenaten's Tomb and Jack Hunter and the Star of Heaven. The series has been described as a low-budget blatant ripoff of Indiana Jones. On the film review siteJumping Sharks it is snarkly, sarcastically & bluntly summed up as "let me make it crystal clear – this is a completely original miniseries, in no way stealing anything at all from Indiana Jones. Nope. No siree. Well, maybe just a bit. Okay, maybe a bit more than a bit. Oh, alright – they basically copied Indiana Jones, right down to his trademarked hat."
Plot
Part 1: The film begins with Jack stealing a stone tablet from a French museum... Young archaeologist Jack Hunter planned only to take a picture of a cuneiform tablet from once unsurpassed Mesopotamian metropolis Ugarit in present Syria, but is caught and has to steal it from a private museum in France. He refuses to join his mentor, professor Frederic "Freddie" Shaffer, who believes the poem is a coded treasure map, on a relic hunt, until his friend is murdered to steal it. The obvious suspect is Syrian artifact trader Ali, so Jack flies to Damascus. There he must accept working with local, US-educated colleague Nadia and her driver Tariq. Their lives are threatened during the long relic quest, for one by common nemesis Albert Littman, but another secret lurks too. Part 2: Akhenaten, a pharaoh who raided Ugarit, stole its treasure and the second piece of the Star of Heaven. If Jack and his team find the tomb, they will find the treasure and the Star. Loads of action and mystery await. Part 3: The final piece of the puzzle and final film in the film series. It seems the Romans got to Akhenaten's Tomb first. The race is on to see if Jack and his friends can find the treasure and recover the Iris back from Littmann and the Russians.
Cast
Part 1:Jack Hunter and the Lost Treasure of Ugarit Ivan SergeiJack Hunter Joanne KellyNadia Ramadan Thure RiefensteinAlbert Littmann Susan WardLiz Mario Naim BassilTariq Mehmet PolatDoridanov Part 2:Jack Hunter and the Quest for Akhenaten's Tomb Ivan SergeiJack Hunter Joanne KellyNadia Ramadan Thure RiefensteinAlbert Littmann Alaina HuffmanLena Halstrom Susan WardLiz Mario Naim BassilTariq Tuncel KurtizSaid Sinan TuzcuMustafa Savas ÖzdemirRiyad Alper KulEyhab Mehmet PolatDoridanov Orbay SayuBoat captain Volga SorguTruck driver Emre CosarEgyptian soldier Part 3:Jack Hunter and the Star of Heaven Ivan SergeiJack Hunter Joanne KellyNadia Ramadan Thure RiefensteinAlbert Littmann Alaina HuffmanLena Halstrom Susan WardLiz Mario Naim BassilTariq Mert YavuzcanFuad Antaki Teoman KumbaracibasiPetrovsky Fatih HaciosmanogluInspector Fatih Mehmet PolatDoridanov Michael HalphieArmen Antaki Esin EdenWidow Tansu BiçerMonk Silay ÜnalYoung woman Lilie LossenNun
