Reviews of National Treasure: Book of Secrets 2007
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This series is just so darn fun. Like with Pirates of the Caribbean, if they keep making them I'll keep watching them.
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As much as I enjoyed the first film, and this was more of the same, I hated that the writers thought that the way to reconstruct the success of the original was to take the first act of the film destroying everything that had been accomplished by the end of the first film, so we had a clean slate upon which to build the same character arcs all over again. Yeah, the treasure hunting is fun (with the same Batman '66-style leaps of logic), but the character arcs were a royal mess.
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I actually like the first one, this one is less clever, more goofy.
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It's silly but really fun.
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This is a sequel that is the same as the original but a totally different film, I am totally unsure how I feel about these films. They are great fun and enjoyable action adventures, there is the issue that the first film has an ending that the start of the second has to destroy to allow the story to progress and it always annoys me as I like people to be happy.
The film itself is okay there is so…
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amazing
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I enjoyed the first one a bit more but this one was okay.
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We were watching this over dinner times - I started writing a review when the treasure-seekers were in London, about to break into somewhere called Bucking Ham Palace...
It didn't get any better, a preposterous story that makes the word ludicrous seem like an understatement. -
Comedy, Action
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The follow-up to the successful National Treasure film this is a disappointing,disjointed addition to the franchise. Where the first movie had a complex but compelling plot-line based on conspiracy theories and urban legends this movie is a confused mess. Trying to duplicate the puzzle laden mystery of National Treasure with an Abraham Lincoln assassination storyline is pretty lame. Nic Cage's Benjamin Gates is tasked with trying to clear the name of his great great grandfather who is implicated in Lincoln's…