2013 · fantasy · adventure · family
The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box
Directed by Jonathan Newman1h 39m2013
Seventeen-year-old Mariah Mundi's life is turned upside down when his parents vanish and his younger brother is kidnapped. Following a trail of clues to the darkly majestic Prince Regent Hotel, Mariah discovers a hidden realm of child-stealing monsters, deadly secrets and a long-lost artefact that grants limitless wealth—but also devastating supernatural power. With the fate of his world, and his family at stake, Mariah will risk everything to unravel the Curse of the Midas Box.
Our read: The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box (2013) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive fantasy · adventure · family entry — gentle in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, breathless, gentle fantasy / adventure, inventive in texture. Redemptive, epic, measured.
- warm
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- inventive
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