In search of the vast riches buried with Mamose, Nicky organizes two archetypally hazardous expeditions into deepest Ethiopia (one legit, the other not). She flees Cairo for her British mother's home in Yorkshire, where she eventually joins forces with Nicholas Quenton-Harper, a daredevil peer with a taste for ancient artifacts and a flair for derring-do. Before Royan can fully decipher Taita's message, however, the papyrus is stolen and her husband, an aging scholar, is murdered by unknown assailants. The witty testament of Taita (the polymath eunuch who narrated River God), it offers maddeningly enigmatic details on where he interred Mamose in pharaonic splendor during an extended exile. Instead of a treasure map, brainy and beautiful Royan Al Simma (an English-educated Coptic Christian who ranks among the world's top Egyptologists) has a 4,000-year-old scroll. I wonder why Wilbur Smith ever gave his permission for this.A rousing, good sequel to River God, Smith's 1994 bestseller, which takes the immensely entertaining form of a high-tech treasure hunt. It is such a shame that such a great book is mutilated in such a bad reproduction.
There were only a few things good about the movie, the actors which played Royan, Nahood, Taita, Boris, Mick and Tessay were well-chosen, the rest were just parodies of the characters in the book, Rasfer was the worst, it didn't get even close to the character that was in my head while I wrote the book. There was nothing in the movie about Nicolas being English and Royan was a Coptic-Christian in the book, not a Muslim.This list is endless.
the tomb itself was made in a maze with only a possibility to pass if one knows the rules of the ancient boa-game. there is supposed to be a channel that has some kind of vacuum-suction around it. the whole thing about the tomb is also very wrong. Taila is supposed to have invented the lightweight-chariot. they did it awfully wrong! at first this kid Hapi,who isn't any character in the book, then the mix between the two books ('the river god' and 'the seventh scroll') than Nicolas needing funds while in the book he himself is actually the funder, the whole thing about the Hyksos is wrong also.
I bought the movie a week ago on DVD and watched it. Well, I've read the book first and thought: wow would this be cool to see in a movie, than I started searching and found there was already a movie made of it.
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