Storyline
Benjamin Franklin Gates and Dr. Abigail Chase re-team with Riley Poole and, now armed with a stack of long-lost pages from John Wilkes Booth's diary, Ben must follow a clue left there to prove his ancestor's innocence in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
Directors
Cast
Christian Camargo, Nicolas Cage, Oliver Muirhead, Ed Harris, Michael McCafferty, William Brent, Diane Kruger, Harvey Keitel, Stephen Hibbert, Demetri Goritsas, Peter Miles, Joel Gretsch, Frank Herzog, Brent Briscoe, Ty Burrell, Jon Voight, Billy Devlin, Bruce Greenwood, Larry Cedar, Justin Bartha, Zachary Gordon, Helen Mirren, Grant Thompson, Armando Riesco, Peter Woodward, Albert Hall, Glenn Beck, C.C. Smiff, David E. Goodman, Randy Travis, Michael Maize, Timothy V. Murphy, Alicia Coppola, Michael Manuel, Brad Rowe, Troy Winbush, Richard Cutting, Alicia Leigh Willis, Rachel Cora Wood, Lisa Marie Sheldon, Natalie Dreyfuss, Michael Stone Forrest, Susan Lynskey, Patricia DiZebba, Eric Carlson, Emerson Brooks, Tim Talman, Emily Joyce, Susan Beresford, David Ury, Ben Homewood, Hans Georg Struhar
Trailer
Reviews
70
L.A. Weekly
This ain’t "The Da Vinci Code," folks, and the reason you can tell is that it’s actually quite entertaining.
67
The A.V. Club
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.
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.
60
Variety
Graced with some extra star wattage courtesy of Helen Mirren and Ed Harris, this diminishing-returns sequel sends Nicolas Cage on another quest to strike it rich, get young auds excited about history and solve puzzles that are generally less stimulating than yesterday's Sudoku.
60
Like its predecessor, “National Treasure,” this sequel amounts to a bunch of crossword puzzle answers stitched together with explosions, chases and displays of intuitive reasoning that the “Twin Peaks” F.B.I. agent Dale Cooper would reject as too right-brained.
