The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines, on TNT
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This first aired in 2006, but I didn't see it until 2016. It's the sequel to The Librarian: Quest for the Spear. Anyway, I have rated this slightly higher than the first movie, though I'm really not sure whether I actually liked it more, the same, or slightly less. (Maybe if I watched the first movie again, I'd raise my rating of that one.) Either way, they're both fun movies.

So... it begins with Flynn and some other guy in Utah, on a mission for the Library. Meanwhile, in Egypt, some bad guys are chasing someone, who has something they want. He gives it to a kid to mail. Later, Flynn gets home, and it turns out the thing the guy in Egypt had, had been mailed to Flynn. But before he opens it, he has to stop by his mother's place, where it turns out she's throwing him a surprise party for his 32nd birthday. It's there that we meet a man named Jerry, an old friend of Flynn's late father, who is like an uncle to him. Then that night, when Flynn goes home, he looks at the thing that was mailed to him, which turns out to be an ancient scroll. Before he has time to study it, an intruder knocks him out and steals it. Later, Flynn tells Judson about it, and he tells Flynn the scroll was a map to King Solomon's mines, where Solomon's most valuable treasures had been hidden 3000 years ago. This includes a book that would allow a person to control space and time. However, the map can't be read without a legend, which Judson tells him is in Morocco. So Flynn goes there, where the ruins he needs to explore are currently the site of an archaeological dig led by a woman named Emily Davenport (Gabrielle Anwar). Naturally, the two of them start off not getting along. But she gets mixed up in his adventure, and they're both chased by the same bad guys who had previously been chasing the other guy in Egypt. Anyway, they find half of the legend. The other half is in Kenya, where Flynn and Emily save the life of a guy named Jomo, who then owes them a life debt. And... lots of other stuff happens. Flynn learns surprising things about his father. And of course he and Emily become closer. And they run into Jerry, who helps them out. Also there's a "Casablanca" theme running throughout the movie, to some extent. And there's stuff about the Queen of Sheba (with whom Emily is kind of obsessed). And eventually they find the mines and the book, and the bad guys nearly win, but of course the good guys ultimately win.

And I guess that's all I want to say. It's all reasonably funny and exciting and there are decent special effects and whatnot. I can't help wondering what ever became of Nicole, from the first movie; she's not even mentioned in this one. And I imagine Emily won't be mentioned in the next one. It's a shame, because I liked them both, but I'm sure I'll like the next woman Flynn teams up with, too. And I'm sure it will be another fun and amusing adventure....

Followed by The Librarian: Curse of the Judas Chalice