Review – Romancing the Stone

Here’s another one of those Hollywood marketing jobs where they try to stir in enough action to draw in the men and enough romance to interest women. Throw in a load of comic relief, and you’ve got the recipe for a muddled mess. However, it’s a muddled mess that kinda works. Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner didn’t strike me as a pair with a lot of chemistry, but there are enough distractions (including a Colombian dictator, a kidnapping, a treasure map, a huge gemstone and no end of high jinks) that their relationship doesn’t have to carry the film. For a brain-dead action comedy, I guess it’s not too bad. Mildly amusing