Male, British, ex-RAF. Is anyone else experiencing REALLY bad lag in the review text box at the mome...
Male, British, ex-RAF. Is anyone else experiencing REALLY bad lag in the review text box at the moment? Its so bad I have stopped writing & editing reviews completely. Can't Ciao fix this?
Member since:14.02.2006
Reviews:412
Video reviews:1
Members who trust:12
In an action movie series its very rare that the sequel is ever as good or better than the original but this is just as good as National Treasure.
Again we have lots of puzzles, hidden maps and travelling this time all over the world to find The Lost City Of Gold just to clear the name of Ben's great great grandfather who has been accused of being the mastermind behind the assassination of President Lincoln.
Ideas that places like The Oval Office in The White House and The Queen's private chambers in Buckingham Palace would be so easy to gain access to are totally laughable and unrealistic, likewise the shelves of The Library Of Congress. Its not that we're asked to suspend disbelief, its too much to expect anyone to believe those places were so easy to access.
Way too much suspension of belief is required there, a whacking huge amount actually. Once again Ben is being pursued by bad people (Ed Harris playing a mercenary very badly with an awful Southern US accent). The filming locations are excellent, the action is more than slightly over the top.
Casting Helen Mirren as Ben's mum is a stroke of genius, her scenes with John Voight are all totally brilliant and improve the film a great deal. It's quite funny seeing John Voight playing a former treasure hunter here especially as that was his role in Tomb Raider as Lara Croft's father.
The film is very watchable and I'm sure there are lots of little details you will spot if you watch it more than once so it can definitely stand up to multiple viewings. Hopefully the next one in the series will be just as good, I guess it just depends what was on Page 47?
(this review also appears on dooyoo)
How helpful would this review be to a person making a buying decision? Rating guidelines
Action/Adventure - Director: Gore Verbinski - Original Language: English - Classification: 12 years and over - Starring:Bill Nighy, Keira Knightley, Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Orlando Bloom, Chow Yun-Fat
Production Year: 1977 - Action/Adventure - Director: Clint Eastwood - Original Language: English - Classification: 18 years and over - Starring:Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Pat Hingle, William Prince, Bill McKinney
Production Year: 1964 - Action/Adventure - Director: Cyril Endfield - Original Language: English - Classification: Parental Guidance - Starring:Stanley Baker, Jack Hawkins, Ulla Jacobsson, James Booth, Michael Caine, Nigel Green
Production Year: 2002 - Action/Adventure - Director: Vincenzo Natali - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring:Lucy Liu, David Hewlett, Anne Marie Scheffler, Joseph Scoren, Matthew Sharp, Jeremy Northam
Less engrossing than its 2004 predecessorNational Treasure, Jon Turteltaubs busy ... more
sequelNational Treasure 2: Book of Secretsis nevertheless a colourful and witty adventure, another race against overwhelming odds for the answer to a historical riddle. Be...
Postage & Packaging: £1.21 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days...
Less engrossing than its 2004 predecessorNational Treasure, Jon Turteltaubs busy ... more
sequelNational Treasure 2: Book of Secretsis nevertheless a colourful and witty adventure, another race against overwhelming odds for the answer to a historical riddle. Be...
Postage & Packaging: Free! Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours...
Join Nicolas Cage on a heart-pounding adventure that will have you on the edge of your ... more
seat in a race to find the Lost City of Gold. Grounded in history, imbued with myth and mystery, Disney's National Treasure 2: Book Of Secrets takes you on a globe-t...
![National Treasure 2 - Book Of Secrets [DVD] [2007]](http://picnicb.ciao.com/uk/78631621.jpg "National Treasure 2 - Book Of Secrets [DVD] [2007]")
Feb 11th, 2009
very helpful by (25%):
helpful by (63%):
somewhat helpful by (13%):
