Davis P National Treasure: Book of Secrets is a better movie then the original national treasure movie. The cast stays the same except trade in Sean Bean for Ed Harris and add on Helen Mirren. The acting is good here, I enjoyed cage and Kruger, very good chemistry, even better here than in the first. And I loved seeing Helen Mirren in this film, she is a fine actress and I loved her performance as Ben's mom and Patrick's ex-wife. The dynamic between Mirren and Voight is interesting and they work very well together. On to the action and treasure hunting. The action are done well, not overstuffed with over the top special effects and not cheesy looking. The movie has a nice pace to it and I enjoyed every destination they went to, they were all important to the movie as a whole. This is pretty enjoyable film that is sure to entertain all audiences. I definitely suggest it for family viewing, it's not too rough or intense or too weak and child like, perfect medium. The kids will have good fun with the treasure hunt and the clues they discover along the way and with the action sequences. And the adults can enjoy that and the interesting interactions between the characters that will probably fly over younger kids heads. 8/10 for national treasure: book of secrets.

AVERY ROBERTSON I recently watch this in school for a writing project and as i went to researching in the reviews I believe I saw a few people say " this movie doesn't make sense". First of all, there is not a movie in the world that makes sense. Second, This movie was made for viewers to not be able to predict what might happen next. Yes, this movie is one big mystery and that's what makes it interesting. This movie was a popular movie for just a short while and now most have forgotten about it. This was a great movie in my opinion. A great family movie and an awesome story line.

Filipe Neto This movie is the sequel of "National Treasure" and is just another movie about insane conspiracy theories based on false historical premises. This time, everything revolves around Cibola, a variation of the South American myth of El Dorado. Out of curiosity, there is no pre-Columbian ruin in North America with some minimal similarity to the one showed in the film, at least as far as I know. What it portrays is clearly influenced by ruins lefted by the Mayans, Aztecs or Incas, who lived in more southern latitudes. That, and the crazy theory around the Resolute desks, is enough to make the plot absolutely indigestible for anyone with a minimum of historical knowledge. The cast includes many actors from the first film, with Nicholas Cage and Diane Kruger leading the way and keeping the flaws and virtues shown earlier, like the lack of depth and personality of their characters and some very enjoyable comical vein. Ed Harris was effective in the role of villain and managed to counteract the lack of depth of the other characters. The film still has good visual and special effects, although scenarios are sometimes a bit disappointing or unrealistic.

SnoopyStyle Gates family history is Patrick Gates (Jon Voight)'s grandfather Charles' recollection of the night of Lincoln's assassination. Charles's father Thomas was given a book to decipher. It turned out to be Booth's diary and the man was actually a member of Knights of the Golden Circle. KGC were confederate saboteurs working in the north. The diary had a clue to a treasure that the confederates want. Thomas threw the pages into the fire and was killed for it. The confederate spy was able to retrieve a part of a page. Thomas Gates was always a hero in the story until now when Mitch Wilkinson (Ed Harris) shows up with the missing page. Mitch is a antiquities soldier of fortune and wants the treasure. His ancestor was a confederate general. The missing page has Thomas Gates' name along with the other conspirators. Everybody now believes that Thomas was a Booth co-conspirator and Ben (Nicolas Cage) has to clear his family name with the help of Riley Poole (Justin Bartha), ex-girlfriend Abigail Chase (Diane Kruger), and even his mother Emily Appleton (Helen Mirren) who can't stand his father.The gang is reunited. The bickering couple chemistry is funny and good. The group has a lot of fun. The movie seems to be trying very hard to be cutesy fun. The addition of Helen Mirren added surprisingly little. Ed Harris is a little too scary and mean. He seems capable of killing anyone. They travel around the world in a wild chase for treasure. It's one big monument after another. It just turns very repetitive as they find clues in a series of over-the-top capers. About halfway into the movie, it gets way too ridiculous even for a National Treasure movie. I could still let this movie get a pass, but the final crazy City of Gold really sank this one. When they got on the ridiculous tippy top table, I couldn't wait for this to end.