Fun movie with great cast and great mix of fiction and non-fictional elements

Rating: 10/10 (30 December 2018)

This review might contain some spoilers, so please be wary if you don't want anything spoiled. I tried hard to be as discrete as possible. This movie is one of my favorites and is a post Christmas and pre-New Year's annual tradition in our house.
It is not necessarily a winter or end of December themed movie, but this movie feels right for us to watch around the same time each year. Just our fun family tradition!
Anyways, the movie itself! Great overall cast! Nicholas Cage is awesome! Fits the lead role well! The guy who plays Riley is a good one too! Plays a smart, likeable, and useful techie well! Diane Kruger impresses me too and still does to this day! She's a great deal of talent! The guy who plays Agent Sadusky from Pulp Fiction, which I never saw but heard he was also in, is also a show stealer as well along with Jon Voight and Sean Bean! Phenomenal cast overall! The other lesser known bad guy characters in the film are great Fast and the Furious-action movie type of actors as well! Definitely cool feel, especially the action scenes. A great mix of action and techie references and geographical references and a great overall cast of actors! Also great and non-corny one liners as well! Jon Voight has the best one-liners here! They all make me laugh every time!
Let's get to the great geographical/historical aspects! Being from around Philly, and having been somewhere in each main city in the film before, it was fun to see notable places I know in real life, especially in Philly, and this includes some non-historical places used in the film as well. Don't wanna spoil anything, but one of the most known food places in the Philly metro area was a cool scene, and I was at that place when I was in the city at the end of this past January, and I thought about the logistics of that scene and how it may have been filmed, and it was nifty.
All in all, very fun and entertaining movie! The perfect mix of fiction, real-life geographic and historical references, and just a fun "treasure hunt!"
Definitely one to watch over and over rather than a once and done watch!