A ship that was supposed to transport some crates from South America to a museum seems to have a crew that lost their heads. The crates are finally flown in. One is full of goodies; the other just leaves. The museum’s Dr. Margo Green (Penelope Ann Miller) is suspicious. Everyone else is happy until a guard seems to have misplaced his hypothalamus. Looks like Dr. Margo Green is about to be consumed by her work.
This is a pretty spiffy, well-done formula movie, based on the novel “Relic” by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. As with many contemporary movies, they completely ignore the book and add all the standard clichés. We have the ruthless rivalry, missing scientists, and mysterious crates. Naturally, no one does what they are supposed to do, and you start rooting for the, let's just call it, a relic.
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