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National Treasure: Book of Secrets
Benjamin Franklin Gates and Abigail Chase re-team with Riley Poole and, now armed with a stack of long-lost pages from John Wilkes Booth's diary, Ben must follow a clue left there to prove his ancestor's innocence in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
Release : | 2007 |
Rating : | 6.5 |
Studio : | Walt Disney Pictures, Jerry Bruckheimer Films, Saturn Films, |
Crew : | Art Department Coordinator, Art Direction, |
Cast : | Nicolas Cage Diane Kruger Justin Bartha Ed Harris Jon Voight |
Genre : | Adventure Action Thriller Mystery |
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If you don't like this, we can't be friends.
Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.
Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,
This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.
Every time I watch this movie, it's make me smile, Cage, Kruger and Bartha whom we knows from the first movie they look good on screen together and they acted beautifully. When you watching it, you may think some parts are not completed, like "how they were getting there?" "How he could did this? it looks pretty simple for that kind of action...." Please don't overthink about every detail, just try to make yourself comfortable with this idea, "This is not a movie like; it had a few Oscar or it's in the most popular 10 movies of the world" you would not dream about it when you got the sleep or would not chat about it with your girlfriend or boyfriend but you can definitely watch it with your kids if you have some, Just relax and have some fun.
The first NATIONAL TREASURE was your usual clichéd Hollywood adventure, a cheap-in-ideas but big-in-budget Dan Brown knock-off with little to remember it by. This sequel is even worse, saddled as it is with unbelievable situations, random character motivations, and one of the dullest plot lines ever (in which Nicolas Cage's character must prove the innocence of one of his historical ancestors).In a film where the stakes are so low, everything seems artificial, from Diane Kruger's shoehorned-in love interest to Ed Harris's token bad guy. Jon Voight is a little better as Cage's dad, but the two of them are too obviously going for a Harrison Ford/Sean Connery relationship as in INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE, and it doesn't really gel. Still, Harvey Keitel is always a pleasure to see on screen, even though Helen Mirren gets right up my nose.The film's globetrotting antics are where this film becomes particularly ridiculous, especially in its need to do cool and goofy things: let's break into Buckingham Palace (so easily), let's kidnap the President. As mentioned, it all feels very random and stupid, and Cage's overacting doesn't help; the scenes where he plays funny/crazy really are excruciating. I blame the Disney influence.
The film opens up with 5 Days after Civil War ends, or suppose to have. Something goes down and the blame is put on Ben's (Cage) father or grandfather. So we assume our places whereby to free the father, they have to find the book and to find that we have to get the clues. Ben has to "Kidnap the President of the United States(Greenwood)". I found this sequel much better ACTION, however, the title of the sequel could be revisited as in the first one, they had a set goal of looking for a map, they found it, then the clues. Whereas this one they were looking for a Book of Secrets, BUT the clues were ELSEWHERE, meaning where was the need for the book? Music was wonderful a pleasure to listen to in the background. The President of the United States gives the crew a Presidential Pardon for Ben's grandfather . They were "accredited for this discovery".
Gates family history is Patrick Gates (Jon Voight)'s grandfather Charles' recollection of the night of Lincoln's assassination. Charles's father Thomas was given a book to decipher. It turned out to be Booth's diary and the man was actually a member of Knights of the Golden Circle. KGC were confederate saboteurs working in the north. The diary had a clue to a treasure that the confederates want. Thomas threw the pages into the fire and was killed for it. The confederate spy was able to retrieve a part of a page. Thomas Gates was always a hero in the story until now when Mitch Wilkinson (Ed Harris) shows up with the missing page. Mitch is a antiquities soldier of fortune and wants the treasure. His ancestor was a confederate general. The missing page has Thomas Gates' name along with the other conspirators. Everybody now believes that Thomas was a Booth co-conspirator and Ben (Nicolas Cage) has to clear his family name with the help of Riley Poole (Justin Bartha), ex-girlfriend Abigail Chase (Diane Kruger), and even his mother Emily Appleton (Helen Mirren) who can't stand his father.The gang is reunited. The bickering couple chemistry is funny and good. The group has a lot of fun. The movie seems to be trying very hard to be cutesy fun. The addition of Helen Mirren added surprisingly little. Ed Harris is a little too scary and mean. He seems capable of killing anyone. They travel around the world in a wild chase for treasure. It's one big monument after another. It just turns very repetitive as they find clues in a series of over-the-top capers. About halfway into the movie, it gets way too ridiculous even for a National Treasure movie. I could still let this movie get a pass, but the final crazy City of Gold really sank this one. When they got on the ridiculous tippy top table, I couldn't wait for this to end.