Excellent, fictional story based on historical materials we all know about

Rating: 10/10 (10 June 2007)

This is an exciting, well acted, intelligent thriller, with a good bit of humor thrown in. Good for the whole family. Raises some interesting historical ideas that may provoke some viewers to delve into American History. A good result.
I am a Nicolas Cage fan, so I enjoyed him. The rest of the cast, however, really made it easy for Cage to "do his thing". The chemistry between Cage and Krueger developed well over the course of the movie. The side characters helped with the story as well, particularly Jon Voight, Harvey Kitel and Sean Bean (plays a great villain), and Cage's "partner" Riley who is the comedic straight man for the many light hearted moments in the movie that carries everyone along and gives some fun breaks to the action.
The decoding of the cypher was done very well, with a lot of imagination. Well done.