Do you really need Nic Cage, Jon Voight, Ed Harris, Helen Mirren and Harvey Keitel in this film? Oscar nominees one and all. But, seriously... for this?! And listen, I enjoyed the first one when a lot of people crap all over it. I recognize it’s trivial, but it was light, entertaining and a helluva lot more fun than The Da Vinci Code could muster up. And for a while, this one felt like more of the same form of peaceful amusement, but it just takes its ludicrous premise too far and feels like an enormous waste of talent. Forgiving the entire set-up, where Nic Cage’s still awfully named hero Benjamin Franklin Gates finds out one of his ancestor’s might have been a co-conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Forgiving that. We still get scenes where Nic Cage can show up at a party on Mount Vernon and end up buddying up to the President of the United States within minutes and nary a few seconds later, talk him into searching for a hidden passageway on the premises. I’m willing to let things go for the sake of a good time, but c’mon. But, hey, maybe without all those nominees it would have seemed even more implausible?
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Yeah its definitely better than the Da Vinci Code, but I'm totally indifferent to this series. Just an excuse to seem intelligent when really it isn't all that clever. To each his own I guess.
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