Site Unseen: An Emma Fielding Mystery (2017) Reviews

• Not well thought out

  rhodabike2017-09-17

  I knew this was going to be a groaner in the very first scene, when some immaculate archaeology students who'd supposedly just been working a dig stood up with perfectly clean clothes and shoes, neat coiffed hair, and not a trace of dirt under their fingernails. It got worse from there. It's a bit of bubblegum, not even close to the level of even the worst British mysteries. Don't waste your time with this potboiler.

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• The Maine problem with this film

  epalmer12018-08-12

  I could accept the formulaic script, predictable plot, and two-dimensional characters of this film-I watch this kind of movie to relax and not have to think too hard. But trying to pretend that British Columbia was Maine was more than my imagination could handle! If an east coast location and American actors were too expensive, why couldn't they have tweaked the story to suit a west coast setting? Professor Fielding could just as easily have been searching for artifacts of Spanish expeditions to the Pacific Northwest or Native American burial sites as trying to prove the existence of an early Pilgrim settlement. It was so ridiculously obvious that this was not Maine that I couldn't think of anything else throughout the entire movie.

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• Soembody doesn't dig Emma's dig.

  bkoganbing2017-06-11

  In this Canadian production which is set in Maine the title role in Site Unseen: An Emma Fielding Mystery, Emma is played by American actress Courtney Thorne-Smith. She's an archaeologist following in the footsteps of her dad who was a world renown professor of archaeology. But during this film she must feel like Indiana Jones with all the bad things happening around her. This is what you call a bait and switch mystery where you are led to believe the villain is one individual though he's trying real hard to pin two murders on Thorne-Smith and other crimes in order to shut down her dig. She's in Maine looking to find proof of an offshoot of Puritan colonists who were rumored to settle there and coincidentally enough it's where she grew up. She has a team of students that include Tess Atkins and Adam DiMarco and those two prove to be very valuable in more ways than just on the dig. The ending was a real let down when the real villain tries to kill Thorne Smith. The jig was clearly up and even he had to see that. Still this is a nice new entry into Hallmark's stable of with it professional red state women who take up mystery solving as an avocation.

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• Authenticity?

  westsideschl2018-09-08

  Positives: 1. Hmmm, well let's move on to negatives. Negatives: 1. The dig site w/lots of closely spaced-out shallow rectangular excavations had just a small element of what most look like. 2. The actors' characterization/portrayal of students and archeologists artificially resembled just acting. 3. They dialogue was middle class, party level type socializing, and came across as forced memorization. 4. Not much dirt being moved about, not even on their clothing. Everyone was so spiffy clean. 5. Script - usual love interests; a dead body; possible treasure to tempt the baddies. A bit of sleuthing to solve our mysteries that might challenge a middle schooler.

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• Totally clued out writers

  ryanolaf2019-03-25

  I watched this thing until the star accused a fellow of murder, alone.. Apparently this is an educated person, so the stupidity of her action went beyond any semblance of reality and the entertainment factor went right out the window.. Horrible writing..! Will not watch another E. F. Mystery..