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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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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It's basically the same quality as the first film. You will get exactly what you expect from this. A glimpse into the past, when mysteries were created, which are now being uncovered by Nicolas Cage. It's action-packed, fairly well-thought-out, and enjoyable. I have nothing against these movies that aim to entertain and nothing else. Sometimes we need to unwind, and I'm glad I could switch off for two hours with this film.
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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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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.
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