how does crap like this get made?

Rating: 1/10 (4 January 2005)

riddle me this-crappy plot, crappy acting, expensive to produce and yet it gets made anyways? must be a bruckheimer film.It starts with a completely implausible plot-there's a secret treasure map contained on the back of a national document. A treasure taken from JErusalem by the Knigts Templar-are you kidding me? This movie desperately wanted to be an Indiana Jones flick with elements of the "DaVinci Code" mixed in.
I also don't understand how Nicolas Cage who is an excellent actor settle to make craporamas like this. I know it's the money, but does he really need more money? Please don't watch this at all. OK, I know this sounds like a rant, but that's all I can do when something is this bad. I stopped watching about 20 minutes into it. I knew how it was going to turn out so why bother frying my brain cells.