National Treasure: Book of Secrets

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Wow, it has been a while since I last reviewed a movie. Well, in this post I’ll review another movie, just shown today, or yesterday, I’m not sure. But anyhow, it was a great movie and worth to watch.

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National Treasure: Book of Secrets

Nicholas Cage has again done a job-well-done in this second movie as the main character Benjamin Gates. Most of the good-guys in the first movie are also in this movie, including Ben’s girlfriend or wife, I’m not sure, Abigail Chase (acted by Diane Krüger, a German), Ben’s father, Patrick Gates (acted by Jon Voight – the Secretary of Defense in Transformers), and Riley Poole (acted by Justin Bartha). There are also new appearance of Ben’s mother (acted by Helen Mirren), I-thought-to-be-the-antagonist Mitch Wilkinson (acted by Ed Harris), the President of United States (acted by Bruce Greenwood) and many others more.

The story started when the crocodile treasure hunter Ben was giving his talk to the audience about the assassination of former President Abraham Lincoln when a man stood up and present ay missing page of John Wilkes Booth’s diary. Ben’s great-great-grandfather’s name, Thomas Gates, as written on that piece of paper, might be the key conspirator of the murder. In order to clear his family’s name, Ben had to set journeys to unsolved clues left on that piece of paper. He had to travel from United States (US) to Paris for the clue at the Statue of Liberty near to Eiffel Tower, to Buckingham Palace for the I-forgot-what-name-but-it-is-one-of-the-twin table and later on to America again for the other table. He found out that the clue was not in the second table as the first, instead a chop which led them to the ‘kidnap’ of the President to find out the truth about the Book of Secrets. The journey continued, and that was where the most interesting part of the movie. I’m not going to tell it, you go watch it yourself.
But overall, the movie was quite good, but I don’t like the way they presented the ideas: as if Ben never wrong in analysis and guessing. Sweat. Riley Poole is just as cool as ever in hacking systems. In the end, by the way, he got a tax-free Ferrari. Laugh out loud.

Well,
Storyline – 8/10
Sounds/ Effects – 8/10
Presentation – 8.5/10
Worthiness to watch – 8.5/10

So go watch, k? =P


vincent