National Treasure: Book of Secrets
Some of the local guys were bad mouthing this movie; asking why Helen Mirren or Jon Voight were even in it.
I completely disagree. I loved it. Thank god most of you did too, taking #1 at the box office.
The movie begins with the requisite historical narrative to the plot, in this case the assassination of President Lincoln and how the Gates family and the hero, Benjamen Gates played by Nick Cage, fits into that. Then we are treated the a update of the three main characters rounded out by Diane Kruger as Abigail Chase and Justin Bartha as Riley Poole. As already mentioned there is the return of Voight and also Harvey Keitel as FBI man Sadusky. New characters include Mirren as Voights ex-wife and Ed Harris as Mitch Wilkinson, the protagonist.
When confronted by a man (Harris) who tells the Gates family that their relative was the mastermind behind the assassination of President Lincoln, an epic blockbuster unfolds that takes the characters to Paris, London, the east coast of America and eventually Mt. Rushmore in order to clear the family name once again.
Instead of just stealing documents like the US Constitution in the first movie, Ben Gates hatches a plot to kidnap the President of the United States played quite well by Bruce Greenwood. And knowing this tidbit in know way detracts from the joy and simplicity Ben Gates uses to do it.
The two characters who get the greatest benefit from the sequel are Riley Poole (Bartha) and Patrick Gates (Voight). Each had tremendously funny lines and sub plots. Voight especially had a mirth and twinkle in his face that was absent in the first film, he gets to explore his characters past with the addition of Helen Mirren as his ex-wife. Their relationship goes through some predictable movements in the arc of the story but only because Mirren is a true gem on the screen picking up precisely on why Voights character was so arbitrary in the first film to his son's exploits.
The villian this time around played by Harris is not as strong as Sean Bean in the first. In the original I actually appreciated that the villain and hero were friends first and then enemies after their different courses of action leading to the same goal became divergent. In this episode Harris is immediately cast as the bad guy and by the end his motives while wrong are redeeming.
I hope they continue to make as many sequels to this story as possible. There is such an endless number of historical accuracies that they could tackle. Eventually the story could move on to the next generation of the Gate Family with Nick Cage becoming the father figure, if that plot line moved further along with his girlfriend Abigail.
I completely disagree. I loved it. Thank god most of you did too, taking #1 at the box office.
The movie begins with the requisite historical narrative to the plot, in this case the assassination of President Lincoln and how the Gates family and the hero, Benjamen Gates played by Nick Cage, fits into that. Then we are treated the a update of the three main characters rounded out by Diane Kruger as Abigail Chase and Justin Bartha as Riley Poole. As already mentioned there is the return of Voight and also Harvey Keitel as FBI man Sadusky. New characters include Mirren as Voights ex-wife and Ed Harris as Mitch Wilkinson, the protagonist.
When confronted by a man (Harris) who tells the Gates family that their relative was the mastermind behind the assassination of President Lincoln, an epic blockbuster unfolds that takes the characters to Paris, London, the east coast of America and eventually Mt. Rushmore in order to clear the family name once again.
Instead of just stealing documents like the US Constitution in the first movie, Ben Gates hatches a plot to kidnap the President of the United States played quite well by Bruce Greenwood. And knowing this tidbit in know way detracts from the joy and simplicity Ben Gates uses to do it.
The two characters who get the greatest benefit from the sequel are Riley Poole (Bartha) and Patrick Gates (Voight). Each had tremendously funny lines and sub plots. Voight especially had a mirth and twinkle in his face that was absent in the first film, he gets to explore his characters past with the addition of Helen Mirren as his ex-wife. Their relationship goes through some predictable movements in the arc of the story but only because Mirren is a true gem on the screen picking up precisely on why Voights character was so arbitrary in the first film to his son's exploits.
The villian this time around played by Harris is not as strong as Sean Bean in the first. In the original I actually appreciated that the villain and hero were friends first and then enemies after their different courses of action leading to the same goal became divergent. In this episode Harris is immediately cast as the bad guy and by the end his motives while wrong are redeeming.
I hope they continue to make as many sequels to this story as possible. There is such an endless number of historical accuracies that they could tackle. Eventually the story could move on to the next generation of the Gate Family with Nick Cage becoming the father figure, if that plot line moved further along with his girlfriend Abigail.
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