National Treasure: Book of Secrets

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. (24/05/2008)

It's basically the same quality as the first film. You get exactly what you expect. A glimpse into the past, when mysteries were being created, which are now being discovered by Nicolas Cage. It's action-packed, it's pretty well thought out, it's entertaining. I have nothing against these types of movies, which try to entertain and nothing else. Sometimes we need to unwind, and I'm glad I could unwind for two hours with this one. (20/02/2014)

First off, let's look at the academic heroes using the method of association. Indiana Jones: whip and swing. Robert Langdon: words and fat. Ben Gates: boredom and a goat's lip. Secondly, the same breathless melancholy, which receives the second star for the patriotic fun with the president and the stylish bastard Ed Harris. You don’t often hear this much bloated gossip; even Rolko Emmerich would envy it. (08/10/2009)

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. (04/05/2008)

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. (13/05/2008)