Don't Bother

Rating: 1/10 (21 January 2012)

Nicolas "Horse-face" Cage plays the know-it-all treasure hunter (beg your pardon: Treasure PROTECTOR) who must explain EVERYTHING to EVERYONE because the audience probably isn't smart enough to know anything for themselves. He is also the one who finds EVERY clue because the hero must be the one who solves everything.
Sean Bean plays the head of a British gang of thugs who want the declaration of independence to find the treasure and will (According to Cage's character) destroy it once they're done because they're all British and we Brits are all liberty-hating, anti-American scum. Well, at least none of them had a "Cor Blimey" accent.
Justin Bartha plays the only character whose name I remember: Riley, a computer nerd, who has to explain to Cage how the Declaration of Independence is impossible to steal in full technical detail...gee, if only you mentioned that at the time Sean Bean was pointing a gun you! You could have avoided making Cage look like a hypocrite!
Diane Kruger plays a woman who (we are told) has a slightly non-American accent because she was born in Germany, but we're almost immediately assured that she IS American so therefore she qualifies as a goodie.
This film is so smug in it's pathetic attempts at being witty or smart and profoundly racist in the sense that anyone who isn't American (especially, if they're British) is probably evil. If you're one of those people who likes films that involve treasure hunting through ancient ruins, stick to Indiana Jones, which is more exciting, more witty, less phoney and above all less racist. Keep your hard-earned money away from this crap, it would be better spent on purchasing pornography.
Some people have tried to defend this film by saying that it's aimed at kids and therefore shouldn't be taken seriously. So therefore, it's alright for films to basically say to children it's okay to steal stuff, think of the British as evil and, above all, tolerate people making crap like this.