Dan Brown?

Rating: 7/10 (22 January 2005)

First, I'd like to say that it is a very entertaining movie. Watch it! Like I read on one of the comments, I felt it was just like Dan Brown stuff. Too much like 'Da Vinci Code'. Instead of PS, you have Masons here. Instead of Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Newton, you have Sir Washington, Benjamin Franklin here. Initially (for first two minutes) I actually thought it was the movie based on Da Vinci code.
Nicolas Cage is cool in the movie. No antics like Face Off here. Just normal cool dude. The character Riley was funny and endearing. Diane Kruger was also good looking in the movie.
One way to describe the story is - Trasure Hunt. I could never guess where they got all the money for the hunt.
The ending was fine. Seen lot of movies where there are no treasures in the end or Treasure is destroyed in the end (McKenna's Gold, Congo and many more). A red Ferrari is always a good ending. (Just a digression: did any one read 'The Monk who sold his Ferrari'?) Nice movie, but you'll never buy its DVD :-)
SVIyer