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Yes, this movie did cost less to make than the first, but you wouldn't know it if you saw it. Most of the expenses of the first film were in the development of the cgi which was simply still being worked after already delaying the first film as long as they could. This final tweaking of the cgi has made a huge difference and those who found themselves surprised at any disapointment they had over how boring such a realistic human skull could still be would probably enjoy another look. The final tweaking one might sense was missing before looks to be there now.
I've been a fan of this character as long as Nicolas Cage has been and I knew next to nothing about the actor or his other works til I learned he was going to play my favorite comicbook character. So I'm able able to take his appeareace in this movie at face value. (So to speak.)
While I never cared whether whoever would play the role would actually look like Johnny Blaze I could only hope whether he had any idea what it was that made the character and story of the original comicbook work, as least for me. When I heard he wanted to do a story with a DaVinci Code theme I wanted to dance around the room, especially since I had already just seen his work in "National Treasure", which impressed me even more than "Face Off"
While the story in the movie is being protrayed more quickly and concisely then in the comicbook and therefore has some unaviodable changes, I believe I can still see tbe same basic plot elements I enjoyed so much in the orignal version, and if I'm not mistaken this is only the beginning of a rip-snorting, dares-you-to-think-outside-the-box tale, and what many people aren't saying is that this script was almost the one they went with the first time, *and* more in keeping with the original comic, much as I enjoyed the first film for looking like it otherwise still had those same basic plot elements.
If most of what you know about religions in general and the history behind them is what you learned from the Media, past and present, and are smart enough to know it, then I recommend you buy this dvd so you can watch it again and again in the detail in which it was meant meant to be seen. You might even notice some clues that could be hiding in plain sight. At least I like to think so. And if I'm wrong, I know I'm going to still have a lot of fun trying to guess what may happen next, cause it's that kind of film folks, and it's been way too long since I enjoyed paying to see any film over again while it was still in the theaters.
My credentials? Well, I've been around long enough to remember when the word "sequel" mean't "sequel", and you can take that for whatever it's worth to you.
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