Directed by:
Jon TurteltaubComposer:
Trevor RabinCast:
Nicolas Cage, Justin Bartha, Diane Kruger, Jon Voight, Helen Mirren, Ed Harris, Harvey Keitel, Bruce Greenwood, Ty Burrell, Alicia Coppola, Joel Gretsch (more)VOD (4)
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Ben Gates (Nicolas Cage) sets out to find the lost 18 pages from the diary of Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth. One of the 18 missing pages has been discovered by Jeb Wilkinson (Ed Harris). On that page are the names of the Lincoln assassination conspirators. Thomas Gates, Ben Gates' great-great-grandfather, is listed on the page. After discovering this, Ben does not want Thomas Gates to be remembered "as a conspirator in the assassination of the man who brought this nation together." His quest to clear his family's name leads to unexpected twists and turns. Agent Sadusky (Harvey Keitel) tells Ben that a secret book has the information he needs. The president's "book of secrets" holds documents, for presidents' eyes only, of all the nations secrets; from the truth behind the JFK conspiracy, the missing minutes from the Watergate tapes, and Area 51. When Ben's request to see the book is denied, he says he must kidnap the president. Each clue leads him closer "to a discovery that the world isn't ready to believe." (official distributor synopsis)
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Turteltaub's family, led by the radiant Cage, adds a higher speed compared to an already solid first part, rushing towards another treasure and this time even justice. Despite occasional slip-ups in logic, everything happens at such a killer pace that I couldn't catch my breath. I want to believe that despite years of delay, the Gates family will make it to the third installment.
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The same old sterile approach a second time round. An incredibly dumb plot, illogical behavior by characters, routineer directing without any scenes that stick in your mind, ridiculous deductions and “dialogs" - all that remained the same. Again it tries to be for the whole family, but fundamentally again for nobody. Perhaps maybe only the wannabe funny helper gets on my nerves much more than last time. And yes, it is equally entertaining as part one was. As movie to relax to, that you forget instantly, this works decently. However, it doesn’t even come close to satisfying those who like adventure and so it just leaves you with the irresistible urge to put on a proper adventure movie. Ideally Indy.
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First off, let's look at the academic heroes using the method of association. Indiana Jones: whip and swing. Robert Langdon: words and fat. Ben Gates: boredom and a goat's lip. Secondly, the same breathless melancholy, which receives the second star for the patriotic fun with the president and the stylish bastard Ed Harris. You don’t often hear this much bloated gossip; even Rolko Emmerich would envy it.
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It's basically the same quality as the first film. You get exactly what you expect. A glimpse into the past, when mysteries were being created, which are now being discovered by Nicolas Cage. It's action-packed, it's pretty well thought out, it's entertaining. I have nothing against these types of movies, which try to entertain and nothing else. Sometimes we need to unwind, and I'm glad I could unwind for two hours with this one.
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Even though chatty like Fidel Castro at a convention, it moves along quickly enough that you don't even have time to think about the tons of historical and scripted bullshit, and that’s not really the point. It's just as stupid and only slightly funnier than any episode of the Relic Hunter series, with the difference that Tia Carrera is replaced by A-list actors and that Jerry Bruckheimer dug deep in his pocket again. Nicolas Cage's lightning-fast deductions would make Sherlock Holmes pale with envy if he wasn’t facepalming.
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