The Last Templar
  • Network: NBC
  • Series Premiere Date: Jan 25, 2009
User Score
2.4

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 17 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 17
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 17
  3. Negative: 14 out of 17

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  1. LisaP
    Feb 9, 2009
    0
    This was a very, VERY thinly disguised sermon about how all atheists are really just faking it and will start praying and worshipping Jesus the second anything goes wrong for them. And then they'll throw out all of their morals and ideals because they'll realize that it's all about the faking it.
  2. SharonF.
    Jan 26, 2009
    0
    An absolute mess. 4 hours of my life that I will never get back.
  3. CraigC.
    Jan 26, 2009
    0
    I cannot believe how horrible this miniseries is. It is so poorly acted and directed it was nearly unwatchable. I thought it was a joke, when I realized it was serious, I was in disbelief. Whoever gave that project the Green Light should be fired.
  4. donaldd.
    Jan 27, 2009
    1
    The first night was interesting to watch, the second night should have been avoided. A Nicholas Cage, she will never be. I feel that I have been duped by all the TV hype and advertising of this show. Fool me once.
  5. BarbaraM
    Jan 27, 2009
    1
    The book was interesting. The first scene of the miniseries told you they were making a different movie with a different story. Mira's acting was terrible. The story was changed so much that it was painful to watch. They changed the ending and changed the whole theme of the book. I was extremely disappointed.
  6. nikce
    Jan 30, 2009
    9
    Enjoyed for it was...entertainment albeit a bit lightweight to be very serious. Liked chemistry between Tess & Sean though.
  7. JoeM
    Feb 17, 2009
    0
    Mira Sorvino just sucks at acting, period.
  8. DonJ.
    Jan 25, 2009
    1
    That was by far the worst attempt at entertainment that I have ever seen. Everything about that movie is an embarrassment to the movie making industry and society as a whole. The Producers should reevaluate the decision they made in making this film. I'm dumber after watching an hour of that dribble.
  9. Rose
    Jan 26, 2009
    1
    Desperate. Was intrigued by the hype , having not read the book, but lost interest a soon as Mrs Indiana Jones was riding off on a horse in a cocktail dress , to joust with knights in Central Park Plot had potential until the writers added super mom and family
  10. SallyH.
    Jan 31, 2009
    10
    Campy but I really liked it. There was chemistry there. Really liked Scott Foley (had never seen him before). In this current media, I like a happy ending.
  11. dustins
    May 24, 2009
    3
    I never post comments about shows, but had to for this one NBC...wow, this show is soooo lame and unrealistic in every way possible. The story is ok, its watchable maybe, but some of this is unbelievably bad......please quit airing it NBC. I had to post...its that bad.
  12. johnslegers
    Jan 3, 2016
    2
    If you are familiar with the action/detective/adventure genre we know from classics like the "Indiana Jones" franchise or the franchise built around Dan Brown and perhaps the quite bad "National Treasure" franchise or "Lost City Raiders", there is little "The Last Templar" has to offer. Most of the mini-series I felt like I was watching a poorly acted, poorly researched, poorly scripted,If you are familiar with the action/detective/adventure genre we know from classics like the "Indiana Jones" franchise or the franchise built around Dan Brown and perhaps the quite bad "National Treasure" franchise or "Lost City Raiders", there is little "The Last Templar" has to offer. Most of the mini-series I felt like I was watching a poorly acted, poorly researched, poorly scripted, poorly directed extended remake of "The Da Vinci Code" with a little bit of "Indiana Jones" thrown in the mix, that somehow managed to add a pro-Catholic message.

    At the very start of the mini-series, I just new I was not going to like it. While there's an exposition of ancient Vatican artifacts being held in the middle of New York City, four men fully dressed in medieval Templar outfits are riding their horses through the metropolis, somehow not being stopped by police officers. Then they ride inside the exposition area after first decapitating a guard, steal a whole bunch of artifacts and ride off into the night.

    The only valid reason I could think of why these guys would wear such an anachronistic outfit to go rob an exposition was if they were actual Templars in their authentic outfits who traveled through time, but this just wasn't that kind of story. The more I hoped for an alternative explanation, the more I got disappointed when it turned out they never even cared to offer one. We were told that one of the artifacts was a Templar artifact and one of the robbers was an expert on Templar history, but that's really all the clues we get on why the robbers came up with the ludicrous idea to use horses and medieval outfits. Did they really expect that anyone with more than two brain cells would find it remotely plausible that four men dressed as Templars and riding on horses rob an exposition of ancient artifacts in the center of New York City?! But let's not stop here. The Indiana Jane of our story (Mira Sorvino, why are do doing this?) runs after the robbers in her cocktail dress and high heels, steals a police horse and ancient pope staff in the process, continues to follow the robbers and then manages to knock one of them out in some park (Central Park?). After being arrested when taking an artifact from the knocked out robber, she's nearly instantly believed by the FBI agent that's put on the case who decides to let her go.

    This pretty much sets the tone for the rest of the mini-series and the plot never becomes any more credible than in the first few scenes I just described. The foreign locations are hilariously unauthentic, the Templar mythology is childish, the events taking place are too contrived to take seriously and the main characters seem to make all the right decisions while at the same time coming off as incredibly naive. Besides our Indiana Jane's (actually it's Tess Chaykin, but I prefer to call her Indiana Jane) little daughter, none of the important characters seemed remotely believable in what they said or did. I suspect this indicates the mental age of the people involved.

    Need I go on?!    … Expand

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#73 Most Discussed TV Season of 2009

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Metascore
29

Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 7 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 7
  3. Negative: 6 out of 7
  1. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Ray Richmond
    30
    After about an hour of jumbled storytelling and bizarre juxtapositions between the 13th century Latin Kingdom and 21st century New York, the prediction is you'll be less intrigued by the legend of the medieval Knights Templar than you will the prospect of catching up on your reading.
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  2. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Mary McNamara
    30
    What begins as a more than slightly fantastic revision of the Templar legend takes an ill-advised turn toward theological theorizing and New Agey spiritual advice.
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  3. Time
    Reviewed by: James Poniewozik
    25
    Sorvino is wholly unconvincing as an Indy Jones type--which might actually work if the story went in a parodic, quasi-farce direction. But the whole production is hobbled by an uneven tone; it's not frightening enough to work as a conspiracy-adventure, not funny enough to work as light romantic comedy.
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