In the movie, two young high school students, played by Danny Perkin and Gathering Marbet, get involved in a treasure hunt for some of the gold hidden in the waning days of Nazi Germany after Jeff's neighbor, an elderly man with an obviously dark past, provides him with a small box. The neighbor dies and Jeff decides to get some help deciphering the pieces of paper left to him inside the mysterious box. Soon after, some strange characters come to town and the chase was on. Keeping in mind that this was a low budget indie film, it was actually pretty well made. The main characters seemed in character most of the time (often a big problem with indie films) and there were some suspenseful moments.

Picture: The picture was presented in full frame format and looked somewhat faded at times. The dvd transfer was not bad.

Sound: The audio was presented in Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo and was fair.

Extras: The extras included an audio commentary track by Director Don Gronquist, a Nazi conspiracies featurette, an interactive map with various printed stories about places where war gold has been found or rumored to be hidden, and some trailers for other movies. The commentary was pretty weak this time with Don obviously uncomfortable with providing one. His few anecdotes and descriptions were hardly worth listening to. The featurette was mostly a conspiracy nut's viewpoint tying the Bush family to some of the German companies that laundered money long ago.

Final Thoughts: The feature movie was good enough that I'm not lamenting my time spent watching it but it didn't really go much deeper than the generic treasure hunt of the week movie on cable either. The characters seemed okay in their roles, especially the leads, but they had little room to grow given the limitations of the direction. If you'd like to see a more expertly made movie dealing with the same theme, try The Marathon Man or even the comedic Kelly's Hero's (Dustin Hoffman in one, Clint Eastwood in the other) but this is worth a rental to genre (and conspiracy) fans.