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This note is about a movie, rather than strictly-speaking a book. These things happen.
In a very early scene from the movie, a bunch of guys travel in these (very cool-looking) snow vehicles to a place where, according to a digital ocean model their pet geek has, a ship lost in the Arctic ice two hundreds years ago might have ended up. They get out with their hand-held metal detectors, and like two minutes later one of them bends down, brushes aside an inch or two of powdery snow, and reveals a piece of metal with the name of the ship written on it.
After that, it starts to get a bit implausible...
Nothing that happens in this movie is even the tiniest little bit credible. But it's considerable fun, a nice romp through modern chase scenes and fictional history.
It's not really a Big Historical Conspiracy movie except in the most literal sense. In a real Big Historical Conspiracy movie the conspiracy would be complicated and doubtful and tangled and uncertain; in this movie you know exactly what the conspiracy was from the get-go, and the only uncertainty is exactly where the chain of (utterly implausible, remember) treasure-hunt clues will lead.
M rented this for me from NetFlix and I watched it on an iBook in multiple watching sessions. That's just about the amount of financial and cognitive investment that it merits, but at least it does merit that much...
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