Let's establish this first – this is a loud, summer action film, and it has to be ridiculously over the top at times. But when in the first scene of the film, an old man, just having been gutted by Paul Bettany, and obviously
dying, is leaving coded messages all over the Louvre, hanging a painting while bleeding from his stomach, you know it can't top itself. Then the old man proceeds to strip naked, draw a pentagram, and lie down to die in the classic Da Vinci pose. Hrrrm.
I have long heard the argument that some films are meant be enjoyed by leaving your brain out....