National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007)
Sequel to a Nick Cage movie that I surprisingly enjoyed, National Treasure 2 once again tried to make Cage the Indiana Jones of American History. This time the same team is back: Cage, comic relief guy and the epitome of hotness that is Diane Kruger; and they must find treasure. It's all they know.
This movie, I didn't find the clues leading to the treasure to be as interesting as the original movie. Nor was the bad guy as menacing as the one in the first one. Probably because Sean Bean has a foreign accent whereas Ed Harris is the launch commander of Apollo 13. And on a minor note, that may be kinda spoiler-ish, the fire lit in this movie is weaksauce compared to the fire that was lit in the first one when they found the treasure there.
I was entertained by this movie, don't get me wrong. But it just wasn't as suspenseful as the first one. Furthermore, I did check my watch once. And one thing that was messed up in the plot was the mentioning of Olmec indians. Just for your own reference, if by chance you do read this before watching it: keep in mind that the Olmec indians resided in southern Mexico. Thank you Lisa Simpson for making me want to wiki Olmecs.
Umm, I only slightly recommend this if you're looking to turn off your brain for a not so well made action thriller. But I highly recommend it if you just want to see Diane Kruger. She's got a great scene in the White House.
This movie, I didn't find the clues leading to the treasure to be as interesting as the original movie. Nor was the bad guy as menacing as the one in the first one. Probably because Sean Bean has a foreign accent whereas Ed Harris is the launch commander of Apollo 13. And on a minor note, that may be kinda spoiler-ish, the fire lit in this movie is weaksauce compared to the fire that was lit in the first one when they found the treasure there.
I was entertained by this movie, don't get me wrong. But it just wasn't as suspenseful as the first one. Furthermore, I did check my watch once. And one thing that was messed up in the plot was the mentioning of Olmec indians. Just for your own reference, if by chance you do read this before watching it: keep in mind that the Olmec indians resided in southern Mexico. Thank you Lisa Simpson for making me want to wiki Olmecs.
Umm, I only slightly recommend this if you're looking to turn off your brain for a not so well made action thriller. But I highly recommend it if you just want to see Diane Kruger. She's got a great scene in the White House.
Labels: Bad Hairpiece, GOLD, Helen of Troy
posted by ian @ 10:20 AM
1 Comments:
At 7:33 AM,
Jon said…
I saw this yesterday and agree with every word of this review. I would like to postulate that Nicolas Cage has become outrageously funny to me in any context since my viewing of The Wicker Man, which biased me toward liking this movie a whole lot more, if it hadn't been for the very weak joke writing and performing (a scene where Cage pretends to flip out in Buckingham Palace could have been much, much funnier if Cage actually knew what people originally found weird, dark, and scary about him in the first place, and parodied that, instead of doing a clown dance). And yes, Ed Harris is an essentially decent guy, so making him a "villain" is just silly. (Just to prove Ed Harris is a decent guy, look at that wiki bio. Married for 25 years and zero celebrity-gossip personal-life b.s. I love it!)
We debated the logic of the climactic scene for about 20 minutes after the movie was over, but we should probably take that off-blog to discuss.
In sum, four Oscar-caliber actors standing on a squirmingly bad teeter-totter of stupid. Sounds like Christmas!
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