Not great, but not bad, either!
Far fetched but ingenious, this movie plays like a video game, right down to having some nifty little puzzle traps.
A crazily convoluted plot boils down to this: History nut sets out to prove his ancestor wasn't the mastermind of the plot to kill Lincoln. Two hours and about 15 clues later, nothing much is proved -- but we found the city of gold, so who cares!
I did have a good time watching it. Oh yeah, I knew the vast majority of the "historical secrets" they dug up (the desks were a neat bit of trivia) and I giggled at the thought of stone levels literally moving the face of a mountain, but I still had a good time.
The characters are likable and fun, and I think that helps. Nicolas Cage was far, far less annoying than he was in Ghost Rider, so bonus points for that. Ed Harris, oddly enough, was the weak link -- but I blame that on the script. He's the bad guy, but he swings wildly from threatening to kill everybody one minute to practically joining the team the next. It's dumb.
The nifty cool car chase in London makes up for that, though -- and props to the director for being one of the only ones lately to use a Steadicam! It was nice to actually be able to *see* what was going on!
Ridiculous, exhausting and entertaining -- and I'm sure there's gonna be a third one.
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