National Treasure: Book of Secrets

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Walt Disney Pictures (124 minutes)
and Jon Turteltaub
Nicolas Cage , Jon Voight , Harvey Keitel , Ed Harris , Diane Kruger , Justin Bartha , Bruce Greenwood , and Helen Mirren

Rating: PG for some violence and action

Summary: When a missing page from the diary of John Wilkes Booth surfaces, Ben's great-great grandfather is suddenly implicated as a key conspirator in Abraham Lincoln's death. Determined to prove his ancestor's innocence, Ben follows an international chain of clues that takes him on a chase from Paris to London and ultimately back to America. This journey leads Ben and his crew not only to surprising revelations, but also to the trail of the world's most treasured secrets. (Walt Disney Pictures)

Peter Hartlaub
San Francisco Chronicle:
(75) A welcome throwback to family-friendly PG moviemaking.

Luke Y. Thompson
LA Weekly:
(70) This ain’t "The Da Vinci Code," folks, and the reason you can tell is that it’s actually quite entertaining.

Ann Hornaday
Washington Post:
(70) Cage is back in crackling good form in National Treasure: Book of Secrets.

Owen Gleiberman
Entertainment Weekly:
(67) Director Jon Turteltaub has fun with Indian glyphs, giant stone pulleys, and an Indy Jones-worthy City of Gold located beneath the rocky shoals of Mount Rushmore.

Nathan Rabin
The Onion (A.V. Club):
(67) It's a measure of the film's infectious goofiness that Cage seems altogether more interested in clearing the name of a long-dead ancestor than in finding a city of gold.

Kirk Honeycutt
The Hollywood Reporter:
(60) It contains all the elements from the original film...But that's the problem: It's virtually the same movie with new locations. Oh, plus Helen Mirren. Not a bad addition, but the popcorn fun is gone.

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