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If you are looking for a dash of Indiana Jones's swashbuckling adventure and a little dose of the Da Vinci Code's "other truth" revelation/myth, then this is the movie that will appeal to you.
Picking up from where the first movie left off, Ben Gates' personal life is somewhat messy until an hitherto unknown truth threatened to smear the name of Gates' forefather, a Civil War Hero, around the time before the assasination of Abraham Lincoln, one of the greatest US presidents.
This truth enraged and upset Gates' father and Gates, upon seeing the expression on his father's face, decides to clear his forefather's name.
Thus, Gates, together with the original members of the first adventure, embarked on a second one filled with more puzzles and mysteries which revolved around the ancient City of Gold, that may have made the difference in the result of the Civil War.
Gates (Nicholas Cage) and his sidekick Riley Poole (Justin Bartha) provided much humour throughout. The lovely Abigail (Diane Kruger) was the eye candy while the conveniently incidental addition of Gates' mother, Emily (Helen Miller), provided a side-story to the movie.
The antagonist this time around is Jeb Wilkinson (Ed Harris), who very much impressed with a cool potrayal of a greedy and fame-seeking villain.
On the minus side, however, I felt that the movie delved into the realm of the fantastical and far-fetched-ness when the adventure leads to the City itself.
Overall, though, I enjoyed this movie and felt it was worth the ticket price.
~Akim~
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