A Guilty Pleasure

Rating: 7/10 (27 December 2010)

Treasure hunter Benjamin Franklin Gates (Nicolas Cage) looks to discover the truth behind the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, by uncovering the mystery within the 18 pages missing from assassin John Wilkes Booth's diary.
I love history, and thus this film is for me a guilty pleasure. I really, really like it, despite knowing a good bunch of it is absolute baloney. But, I feel that if this film has the indirect influence of causing kids to run out and learn more about history and important figures, that is wonderful. And I suspect this is the case. If I were a history teacher, I would use this film as a tool.