Lucky's Treasure

Faith based, but that want what bored my family. It was the plot. The classic teen girl, Emily, goes to live with her grandfather while she attends college. But her grandpa is heartbroken after his wife's death a year before. His wife, however, was apparently nothing more than a plot device. Nobody fondly remembered her for anything more than her research about the buried treasure. Emily is horrified to learn that her grandpa's house has no cell service. Apparently, the girl doesn't have books. Suck it up, girl, I LIVE in a dead phone zone. This is apparently forgotten, though, by the end of the movie. The cute guy in town, Jake, immediately notices her, much to the chagrin of his ex. The ex, Lindsey, is shallow and flat, with no other reason to hate the MC except for the fact that her ex likes her. There's another thing: they don't even know each other and they fall for each other In a cheap romance subplot. In three days, Emily is "heartbroken" when she sees Lindsey kiss Jake again, and in the week since she's been in town and and Jake are already going strong. Dumb and dumber, the two antagonists and treasure hunters, are, again, flat and stupid. The only police officer we see isn't even wearing half of his equipment. I get that it's the officer's choice, but still. He walks straight into possible danger, doesn't bother radioing for an ambulance when grandpa has a heart attack. Overall, i thought it was boring and predictable, only finished it at the behest of the younger family member. Thankfully it was only an hour and a half long.

There was some beautiful scenery and a wholesome farm environment with horses, including the title character of Lucky. The film begins with the premise that Lucky will help lead the wholesome owners of the farm to the hiding place in the woods where a coin worth $500,000 has been hidden. After establishing this good premise, the film suddenly introduces the line, "Well, it's never too late to find Christ." In turn, this line is followed by the following maxim: "As Christians, we should be living examples of Christ's love." By this time, it should be clear that God will be watching over young Emily, her grandfather, and the work of the devil in the idyllic farm community. And there is plenty of evil in the form of villains who want the coin for themselves and will apparently stop at nothing to steal it. Perhaps the most fearsome of the villains is Big Bad Lindsey, the "accomplice" to the crime, who is motivated by tearing Emily away from her former beau named Jake. There was a truckload of sentimentality in the relationship of Emily and her grandfather, who begins as a Scrooge and is brought to his knees in repentance by the end. At one point in the film, Jake offers up the line to Emily, "I come here just to pray." There was a lot of praying in the film, and a bountiful supply of rewards for the faithful.

This Christian based film is highly unlikely to get out from other than church audiences. Where it should stay because in the real world it would get hoots and catcalls. Michael Ironside is the grouchy old grandfather who has become bitter and reclusive since losing his wife in a horseback riding accident. She was out looking for some treasure with her horse named Lucky when he threw her. Ironside's son and daughter-in-law decide that their daughter should spend some time with him. So Delaney comes to live with grandpa over the summer. And she gets caught up in the treasure hunt as do others. The treasure is one or more old gold pieces that an eccentric millionaire buried all over his property. Just one is face valued at $50,000.00. One of them wasn't exactly buried as we learn. One of the subplots involves the sheriff's kid JT Neal getting involved with Delaney. Both are good Christian kids, but his old girlfriend Lauren Taylor schemes to break them up. Since Neal is such a goody goody in the film what could he possibly have seen in Taylor in the first place. Similarly Taylor is worried about such matters as her computer and her WiFi when she first comes to grandpa's. Her change is abrupt and without explanation. Lucky's Treasure is not a well constructed story and the acting other than Ironside is not great. This one strictly for Christian audiences and their self contained world.

Excellent story that my wife and I both enjoyed. In a natural and easy way Christian principals and prayer came up but nothing excessive for the non-religious viewer. It had a good story that flowed well. A good romance, chick flick, family film that we enjoyed. Michael Ironside is a very well known actor who has about 77 movie credits over 40+ years. Don't know why others have to be so critical. This was a good story and deserves a lot of more credit than has been given to it.

Evidently "family" is a euphemism for "Christian," as if the Christian religion has a monopoly on family. This movie is very contrived and not worth the $1.62 I paid at Redbox. The acting is really bad and the story is very predictable indicating a lack of imagination on the creator's part. Pure Flix Entertainment (stylized as PURE|FLIX) is an American independent Christian film and television studio, headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona. They appear to appose the Johnson Amendment and cater predominantly to the home-school population.

This faith based film is filled with way too many platitudes, clichés, and predictable plot elements for my liking. The plot revolves around the young woman Emily (Delaney) who has decided to live with her grandfather Henry in the countryside and attend her first year of college there. However, Henry (Michael Ironside) is still grieving the loss of his wife, a year before, and has become quite gruff, ornery, and is drinking way too much. At college, Emily will meet Jake (JT Neal), and they'll be immediate chemistry between the two, but both will have to deal with Jake's jealous and vindictive ex-girlfriend. Also, there's a subplot in the movie which involves a most valuable coin that supposedly is hidden somewhere on Henry's property. Overall, the film was just too simplistic and platitude driven, and definitely is not my cup of tea.