![]() A security guard tells Ben and Abigail to leave the Buckingham Palace, but Ben pretends to try to flee from the guard, only to be caught by another guard. Ben starts a scene by making a fake argument with Abigail shouting how Abigail sometimes thinks that whenever he answers a question quickly, he is always wrong. He travels to Paris, France, where he finds a clue engraved on the torch of the scale model of the Statue of Liberty on the Île des Cygnes, referring to the two Resolute desks.īen then heads to England to look at the desk at Buckingham Palace with the help of his friend Riley Poole and estranged girlfriend, Abigail Chase (His relationship with Abigail having soured due to him constantly predicting what she might want without even bothering to ask her, even if he is often correct in his assumptions). Refusing to allow his ancestor's name to be tarnished, Ben sets out to prove the innocence of his great-great-great-great-grandfather.īen discovers a cipher pointing to Édouard Laboulaye hidden on the back of the diary page. Black market dealer Mitch Wilkinson, a Virginia Military Institute graduate, shows one of the 18 missing pages of John Wilkes Booth's diary, with Thomas Gates' name on it, convincing everyone that Thomas was not only a conspirator, but the grand architect of the Lincoln assassination, which tarnishes the Gates Family's reputation and Ben is disgraced. Over 140 years later, Ben Gates is telling his ancestor's story at a Civilian Heroes conference. As Thomas dies, Thomas tells his distraught son, Charles Gates, "The debt that all men pay." Thomas is shot, and the gunman attempts to retrieve the pages, but only obtains a page fragment. A fight breaks out, and Thomas rips several pages from the diary and throws them in the fireplace. Thomas solves the puzzle, a clue to a map to Cíbola, the city of gold, and realizes the men are still loyal to the South and have a sinister motive for finding the treasure. ![]() While he does so, Booth leaves for Ford's Theatre to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln. Thomas recognizes the message and begins to translate it. Anyway, I would recommend this to anyone who has scene the first one and anyone who would like a good crime/action/adventure flick with excellent acting with lovable and believable characters.Five days after the end of the Civil War, John Wilkes Booth and Michael O'Laughlen, both members of the Knights of the Golden Circle (KGC), enter a tavern and approach Thomas Gates ( Ben Gates' ancestor), a well-known puzzle solver, to decode a message written in John Wilkes Booth's Diary. I can't explain the nice feeling the first movie gave me: its what the perfect movie gives you I guess. it just didn't satisfy like the last movie did. As I think back to some of the scenes in the beginning and middle of the movie, I forget why I included "negatives" because it was so brilliant and I loved it as much as the first one. It was too sudden and I felt it was incomplete, even though the movie was over two hours long. And the ending definitely did not satisfy me. It all felt rushed which tended to confuse me. After that they moved on to London, they spent about 15 minutes there, 5 of them were spent finding the clue. For example, they spent literally about five minutes in Paris both finding and figuring out the clue. But I felt that the ending, and a few other scenes were rushed. With interesting history references and a brilliant score by Trevor Rabin, what could be wrong with it? You may not agree with me. Another thing I liked was the ironic humor and sarcasm used by Nicolas Cage's character and other characters throughout the movie that gave it a light, fun feel. All the action scenes were awesome: right out of an Indiana Jones movie. The scene near the unexpected end where they had to balanced the steel block thing in the cave was terrific. Also the action scenes are excellent and full of invigorating suspense. The acting was as superb as the first (Nicolas Cage and Justin Bartha are amazing). ![]() It almost felt like the writers could not think of any new, clever clues for Nicolas Cage to solve or more suspense without action scenes. That being said, I felt something was missing in National Treasure: Book of Secrets. I love history, specifically American history, and it had clever references and facts about American history that lead to finding the treasure in a way that is not predictable. First of all, National Treasure, the first one, is one of my favorite movie ever.
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