Review – National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets

For the most part this is another batch of the same recipe they used to make the first one. Nicolas Cage resumes the lead of a coterie of treasure-hunting history nerds, this time in pursuit of the lost gold city of Cibola (and the opportunity to clear his family’s name from a recently-unearthed connection to the Lincoln assassination). Some of the twists and turns are entertaining, particularly the notion that buried somewhere in the Library of Congress is a President’s-eyes-only notebook with the answers to every conspiracy riddle from the Kennedy assassination to Area 51. On the other hand, most of the thrills are more video game than movie, frequently failing the “why would anyone set it up that way?” plausibility test. Overall this follows the formula but not much else. Mildly amusing