It's really fun. If you liked the original, you'll like this one. The guy that plays Nicholas Cage's dad plays a bigger role, and he's a good actor. I like all the little history factoids put in there.
Okay, if my car sits idle for a week, it won't start; but all the century-old mechanisms in secret caves still work with a good push. If you can suspend disbelief about that part, you'll have fun with this movie . . .
"Yesterday Mr. Hall wrote that the printer's proof-reader was improving my punctuation for me, & I telegraphed orders to have him shot without giving him time to pray." -Mark Twain
"There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist."
Ayn Rand
". . .and the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, axe, and saw."
1. I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. 2. He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful. - Romans 15
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Sankofa wrote:Couldn't get past 8 minutes of the first one. Raw sewage on film.
Eeee-yep. Nothing but cynical Hollywood rebaking - "hey, can't we do, like, another DaVinci Code kinda thing?" - with the unmistakable stench of Jerry Bruckheimer all over it. Drivel of the worst kind: it's embarrassing to watch once-promising actor Nicholas Cage pay the Malibu rent in slabs of rotting meat like this and The Wicker Man. Only hiring Joel Schumacher to direct could make things worse.
Sankofa wrote:Couldn't get past 8 minutes of the first one. Raw sewage on film.
Eeee-yep. Nothing but cynical Hollywood rebaking - "hey, can't we do, like, another DaVinci Code kinda thing?" - with the unmistakable stench of Jerry Bruckheimer all over it. Drivel of the worst kind: it's embarrassing to watch once-promising actor Nicholas Cage pay the Malibu rent in slabs of rotting meat like this and The Wicker Man. Only hiring Joel Schumacher to direct could make things worse.
C'mon, you don't think these hacks came up with that whole "Chain of Puzzles" thing by themselves. It could not be a more obvious rip. Bruckheimer couldn't get the rights fast enough to suit him and decided to rush his own "anagram rce for the prize" story to theaters.
