Enjoyable!

Rating: 8/10 (24 January 2005)

This is a good film to kill a few hours during the holiday season. It grips you from the start with interesting and likable characters (even the villain wasn't too bad) and a fast paced story-line that is a type of treaure hunt (a la Angels & Demons or The Da Vinci Code) where clues are followed to get from one place to the next. If you can overlook the obvious flaws (such as walking 7 miles in the Arctic circle with no problem and guards at National monuments that never seem to be around) then you will love this film.
I am not normally a Nicolas Cage fan but he is excellent in this one and Jon Voigt gives a performance as Cage's father reminiscent of Sean Connery in the Indiana Jones movies.