National Treasure: Book of Secrets - Rotten Tomatoes

National Treasure: Book of Secrets is a sequel that works because it's more interesting and more entertaining than the original. Show More. Kevin M Super ... Home TopBoxOffice Tickets&Showtimes DVD&Streaming TV News What'stheTomatometer®? 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NationalTreasure:BookofSecrets Videos 2:36 NationalTreasure:BookofSecrets:Trailer2 2:26 NationalTreasure:BookofSecrets:Trailer1 ViewAllVideos(2) NationalTreasure:BookofSecrets Photos ViewAllPhotos(88) MovieInfo Whenalong-missingpagefromthediaryofassassinJohnWilkesBoothsuddenlyresurfaces,itimplicatesthegreat-greatgrandfatheroftreasurehunterBenGates(NicolasCage)asaconspiratorinLincoln'sdeath.Ben'sglobetrottingquesttoprovehisancestor'sinnocenceleadshimtoacloselyguardedbookcontainingthenation'sdeepestsecrets. Rating: PG(SomeViolenceandAction) Genre: Adventure, Action OriginalLanguage: English Director: JonTurteltaub Producer: JerryBruckheimer, JonTurteltaub Writer: CormacWibberley, MarianneWibberley ReleaseDate(Theaters): Dec21,2007  wide ReleaseDate(Streaming): May20,2008 BoxOffice(GrossUSA): $220.0M Runtime: 2h10m Distributor: BuenaVista SoundMix: SDDS,DolbyDigital,DTS,DolbySRD AspectRatio: Scope(2.35:1) Cast&Crew NicolasCage BenGates JonVoight PatrickGates HarveyKeitel Sadusky EdHarris JebWilkinson DianeKruger AbigailChase JustinBartha RileyPoole DameHelenMirren EmilyAppleton BruceGreenwood President AliciaCoppola AgentSpellman TyBurrell ConnorHamilton ChristianCamargo JohnWilkesBooth JonTurteltaub Director CormacWibberley Screenwriter TrevorRabin OriginalMusic JerryBruckheimer Producer JonTurteltaub Producer MikeStenson ExecutiveProducer ChadOman ExecutiveProducer BarryH.Waldman ExecutiveProducer OrenAviv ExecutiveProducer CharlesSegars ExecutiveProducer AmirMokri Cinematographer JohnSchwartzman Cinematographer WilliamGoldenberg FilmEditor DavidRennie FilmEditor DominicWatkins ProductionDesign MarianneWibberley Screenwriter ShowallCast&Crew CriticReviewsforNationalTreasure:BookofSecrets AllCritics(130) |TopCritics(39) |Fresh(47) |Rotten(83) FullReview… NamrataJoshi Outlook FullReview… NellMinow MovieMom FullReview… JoshuaRothkopf TimeOut FullReview… TrevorJohnston TimeOut FullReview… OwenGleiberman EntertainmentWeekly FullReview… TimGrierson ScreenInternational FullReview… RichardPropes TheIndependentCritic.com FullReview… MichealCompton BowlingGreenDailyNews FullReview… NandoSalvá Cinemanía(Spain) FullReview… MatthewLucas FromtheFrontRow FullReview… JoshuaStarnes ComingSoon.net FullReview… TonyMacklin FayettevilleFreeWeekly ViewAllCriticReviews(130) AudienceReviewsforNationalTreasure:BookofSecrets May21,2013 Maybethismovieisfun,butridiculousplotandbadactingkilledallpossibilitiesofthismoviebeingsomethingmore. MateM SuperReviewer Aug28,2012 Iactuallylikedthisonemorethanthefirst.Itwasn'tasridiculousanditjustwasn'tasboring.Plus,itwasalotfunnier.IreallylikedEdHarris'roleasthevillainunlikeSeanBean'sroleasthevillaininthefirst.Harris'fateisalotmoresatisfyingandmeaningfultothestoryarcthanBean'swas.AndIthoughttheideaofthePresidenthavingasecretbookthatholdsinformationonlyaccessibletotheU.S.Presidentswasreallycool,andIthinkit'sdefinitelypossiblethatsomethinglikeitexists.NationalTreasure:BookofSecretsisasequelthatworksbecauseit'smoreinterestingandmoreentertainingthantheoriginal. KevinM SuperReviewer Aug22,2012 Justasgoodasthefirstingettingyougrippedintothefilm,Maybenotascleverasthefirstbutstillverygood,Maybesometimeshardtofollowonhowthecluesarefiguredoutbutaverygoodsequel. JamieC SuperReviewer Jul05,2012 NationalTreasure:BookofSecretsratchetsupthecrazybyafactorof10.ThistimeBenGatesisonaquesttofindthelostCityofGoldinordertoprovethathisgreatgrandfatherwasn'taconspiratorintheAbrahamLincolnassassination.NicolasCage,DianeKruger,andJonVoightreturn,andarejoinedbyEdHarrisandHelenMirren.CageandKrugereasilyslipbackintotheirrolesandrecapturethemagicthatmadetheircharacterssofuninthefirstfilm.However,thisplotisjusttooconvolutedtogowith.Therearealotoffunmoments,buttheadventure'snotasinterestingorentertaining.Thestoryisweak,butNationalTreasure:BookofSecretsmanagestodeliverafunandsolidlyentertainingadventure. DannM SuperReviewer SeeallAudiencereviews Quotes Therearenoapprovedquotesyetforthismovie. 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