The movie's MacGuffin is a set of three ancient bejeweled antiquities known as ''Cleopatra's Eggs''. "MacGuffin" is the Hitchcockian term for the object at stake in a suspense-thriller. Hitchcock actually explained it as one man telling another that it is "a device to hunt lions in Scotland", and when the other man replies that there aren't any lions in Scotland, the first says "Guess there isn't a MacGuffin, then." So, the MacGuffin is the object that sets the plot in motion but has very little real significance in the plot and it is pretty much useless. It is actually mentioned in the movie when Nolan Booth (Ryan Reynolds) quips: "Look for a box that says 'MacGuffin'."

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