Disney homogenizes action and Nicholas Cage

Rating: 5/10 (22 November 2004)

This was a good movie, but the rest of my comments tend to be critical on how safe and overly-complex the film is.
I am not a fan of the spy-film in which the characters know way too much about every surrounding in which they are placed, so with that in mind, I didn't really want to see this film. I loved the production work by the classic Last Action Genre-Hero himself, Jerry Bruckheimer, and Cage and Bruckheimer go back to the Rock and possibly others that Cage was in. The Disney feel was very abundant with impossible-looking sets and detail (which also felt a bit fake). And the craziest thing to get yourself over first is the story.
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My god, this story is crazy. Far-stretched enough to drive you insane, the never-ending clues that are placed between Cage and the treasure are way too many. And again, Cage seems to know how to solve every riddle and clue as to where the treasure that he's after might be. But that is the whole movie, basically. Sure, there are bad guys, a love interest (who seems a bit out-of-place for this script), and the typical Disney-kid/student/child-actor who was in commercials for Disney.
I was pretty open-minded about seeing this film, and there wasn't any reason not to be. I didn't mean to automatically dislike this film based on crazy previews that I'd seen, but the previews plus the insane movie itself bring it's potential down to a 5/10, average.