National Treasure - Book of Secrets (2007)

"National Treasure" movie review by Michael Elliano
Like Indiana Jones this movie capture the imagination. Nicholas Cage has found his calling in this series and I hope the episodes keep coming. It is what it is in the shape of a good movie and although constantly amazing and far fetched just plain fun. Enjoy.

Buy, Buy, Buy, Buy! Watch, Watch, Watch!
Movies just don't get much better than this!

Nicolas Cage is fantastic as the ever as the curious Ben Gates, a man destined to discover it all, learn it all, and enjoy it all. Combine Cage's interesting treasure hunter role with two of the most lovable characters to ever hit the big screen, Riley Poole (played by Justin Bartha) and Abigail Chase (played by Diane Kruger), and you have what can be called THE PERFECT SEQUEL!

From the opening credits to the last scent of the film, this is what people go to the movies. This is a must have DVD, Blue Ray, whatever format must-have for any film fan.

Action, adventure, intrigue, historical fun...you name it, Book of Secrets has it.

Buy this DVD for yourself. Buy it for friends. But most importantly, watch it.

Hollywood has produced a lot of DUDS over the past decade. This is NOT one of them.

Trust me - this film delivers the goods, and delivers them often!


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Enjoyable sequel , weak villian .
I really enjoyed this movie despite the poorly written villian part played by Ed Harris . First off the southern accent done by the New Jersey born Harris was awful , then when he teams up with Cage and company he tells him he framed his ancestor to get him to help find the lost city -which makes no sense since he tried to kill him in Europe to steal a clue before that . In the first movie there was no doubt that Ian the villian , despite teaming up with the heroes again , was going to off them after finding the treasure . The Wilkinson character is good , then bad , but only because he's trying to clear his family's good name . The writers tried to make him a sympathetic figure near the end , but after kidnapping , blackmail and attempted murder I can't imagine anyone having any sympathy at all for this character . Why can't Hollywood just let a villian be evil for evil's own sake these days ? They do the same thing with the spiderman movies - Goblin/Dr. Octopus/Sandman/Venom aren't really bad , but were driven to evil by 'insert reason here' .

Anyway getting by that there was much more good than bad in this sequel , especially the addition of Helen Mirren as the estranged wife of Patrick Gates . As in the first movie Ben Gates was clever to the point of a genius with a photographic memory , Riley was funny , especially amusing was every nutty conspiracy theory in his non-selling book seeming to be true having been bought (apparently the only copy sold) by fair minded FBI agent Sadusky , once again played by Harvey Keitel .The question asked of Ben Gates by the president near the end strongly hinted at a third installment . If there's a villian in that one , hopefully he'll be a straight up baddie motivated by greed and power and not a conflicted , convoluted mess of motivations . Despite that one flaw in this movie , I recommend it and will be going to the theater to see the next installment should there be one .