Directed by:
Jon TurteltaubComposer:
Trevor RabinCast:
Nicolas Cage, Justin Bartha, Diane Kruger, Jon Voight, Helen Mirren, Ed Harris, Harvey Keitel, Bruce Greenwood, Ty Burrell, Alicia Coppola, Joel Gretsch (more)VOD (5)
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Nicolas Cage reprises his role as artefact hunter and archaeologist, Ben Franklin Gates. When a missing page from the diary of Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth, surfaces, one of Ben's ancestors is implicated as a conspirator in the murder. In an attempt to clear their family's name, Ben and his father, Mitch (Jon Voight), travel the globe in search of the other missing pages from Booth's diary. The journey leads Ben and his crew not only to surprising revelations, but to the trail of the world's most treasured secrets. (Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment)
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The Jon Turteltaub crew, led by the radiant Nicolas Cage, bumps up the pace compared to the already solid first installment, rushing towards another treasure and this time even justice. Despite occasional slip-ups in logic, everything happens at such a killer tempo that I couldn't catch my breath. I want to believe that despite years of delay, the Gates family will make it to a third installment.
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Talky, predictable, boring. I don't remember a single minute of the first part, and the second part turns out exactly the same. Nicolas Cage's puzzle-solving skills belong in the Guinness Book of Records. Quite embarrassing considering that this “intelligent” entertainment is aimed at the widest audience possible so that at least some money can be made from this boring, yet expensive-looking story. The most entertaining scene is the one with the president. I highly recommend it to all intellectuals and cynics. There would be plenty of waste, like mushrooms after rain.
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A repeated joke is no longer funny, or leave this treasure alone already! It's true that it's a cute Hollywood, star-studded mystery adventure that fortunately doesn't take itself too seriously and works more than satisfactorily as unpretentious visual entertainment despite its excessive runtime, but there's not a single reason to grant its limited filmmaking qualities with a fourth star and thus make it a work worthy of recommendation and praise in my books... Harmless and inoffensive, but still a barely ambitious average. ;) 60%
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It's almost the same as the first installment but the larger than life finale simply forces me to give it an extra star. I just love golden cities. I just love golden cities. Plus, for the first time in a long while, Cage is finally in a pretty good movie, and if you take National Treasure as an appetizer for the fourth Indiana Jones (the new trailer is great, by the way) you'll spend quite a pleasant two hours with it.
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Even though chatty like Fidel Castro at a convention, it moves along quickly enough that you don't even have time to think about the tons of historical and scripted bullshit, and that’s not really the point. It's just as stupid and only slightly funnier than any episode of the Relic Hunter series, with the difference that Tia Carrera is replaced by A-list actors and that Jerry Bruckheimer dug deep in his pocket again. Nicolas Cage's lightning-fast deductions would make Sherlock Holmes pale with envy if he wasn’t facepalming.
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