If you’ve seen the first movie, you know exactly what to expect here. The first half displayed pretty much every flaw of a sequel: take the original cast, but think you need to add twists (Cage and Kruger split up) and characters (Helen Mirran as Cage’s mother, arguing with Jon Voigt as his father). Actually, it does amaze me that so many famous faces appear here, including Harvey Keitel and Ed Harris (replacing and improving upon Sean Bean as the main baddie). Anyway, to the original concept add some more far-flung locations, ludicrous plot twists, and just more more faster faster!!! Urg.

But then… once it stops trying to out-do the original and just calms down into the story, it was actually a great deal of fun. The facsimile plot takes its treasure hunt through Paris, Buckingham Palace, the Oval Office and Mount Rushmore, seeking the famous lost City of Gold.

The list of goofs on imdb show how many liberties the film makers have taken with history, geography and everything in between – if that’s going to bother you, this movie isn’t pitched at you anyway! It’s very very silly, but ultimately a bit of Saturday afternoon fun.