Synoahpsis:
Joan Wilder is a cat-loving romance novelist who, after receiving a strange parcel in the post one morning, returns home later that day to find her apartment ransacked... a ransacking most foul. She receives a phone call from her sister, informing her she's been taken hostage in Columbia (dun, dun, dunnnnn). Joan must travel there in order to exchange a treasure map (then contents of her strange parcel) for her sister's life.
In Columbia, Joan gets into a bus crash in the jungle on her way to the exchange and discovers that the Columbian police are interested in her treasure map as well. As a police officer tries to take the map by force, a mysterious, rifle-wielding, man emerges from the jungle and saves her. The man agrees to take Joan to a phone, for a fee (which she just does not like at all), and the two begin their run together from Columbian police, kidnappers, and general bad guys through the rainforest.
The man convinces her to search for the item referred to on the map... a treasure known as El Corazón. They get the huge stone, keep running from the bad dudes, get Joan's sister back, and escape with their lives. Joan and the rifle-wielding guy go their separate ways after loosing the stone to a hungry alligator. Good thing he really liked her, because he eventually found the stone, bought a giant sail boat and took it back to Joan's place (along with his new alligator skin boots). The two sailed off happily together, their boat (sails hoisted) atop a truck in NYC.
The best bit:
100% had to be when the alligator jumped up out of the water and bit off the hand of the Columbian chief-malefactor just after he got ridiculously the big jewel.
Marks out of 10: A bit cheesy, predictable, but fun 6.3
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