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National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets is the sequel to the smash hit "National Treasure" and reunites Nicholas Cage, Justin Bartha, Diane Kruger and director Jon Turteltaub from that film.
Ben Gates (Cage) is at a talk where he is presenting new evidence about John Wilkes Booth and the 18 pages missing from his diary where a man, Mitch Wilkinson (Ed Harris), produces a missing piece of the diary from nowhere. Upon further studying it seems to implicate Ben's great-grandfather was a conspirator in the murder of Abraham Lincoln.
This starts Ben on a different adventure, to clear his family's name. Along with his friend Riley and girlfriend Abigail, they look for more clues about what really happened on that fateful night. Along the way they must travel the globe, break into some of the world's most powerful peoples offices and even find the lost city of gold - Cibola. All in a day's work!
If you like the first National Treasure, it's safe to say you'll like this one too. It has the same sense of mystery as the first film, and the same unraveling of historical facts. Again this one deals with a conspiracy and a secret involving many historical figures where you have to unravel clues and decode puzzles in order to prove you're worthy enough to find the prize.
Again the cast do a good job, Justin Bartha is great as the comic relief to the more serious Cage, and Ed Harris is menacing as the bad guy. Harvey Keitel pops up once again as the FBI agent Sadusky, who has more than a tenuous link to the whole thing.
As it's a sequel the rule is you have to make things bigger. So they travel to London to look in the Queen's desk (ditto the presidents), on to France and then to infiltrate a party for the president in order to find out about the rumour of the secret book that is carried on to each new president. This is all good fun as we see the main characters move their way through this mystery, and you really want them to solve it as well. The action sequences are tense, not the best I've ever seen but they fit the film well and are quite exciting.
Overall a good sequel that carries over a lot of the elements that made the first one a big hit at the box office, can't wait for the next one! Four stars.
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