IF YOU HAVE NOT YET SEEN THIS MOVIE, PLEASE, DO NOT READ THIS ARTICLE, MUCH IS REVEALED HEREWITH.

The new installment of the National Treasure movies was far better than I expected it to be. Usually, second movies on same characters might turn out to be much less interesting and not do as well in the box office. Save of course, Star Wars and Indiana Jones. Although the second Indi movie was a little to dark for my taste, the third one with Sir Sean Connery was terrific, more so because it dealt with topics that have been so appealing to me since childhood: Holy Grail and Knights Templar, amongst many other.

I think National Treasure – Book of Secrets, is well acted and has such terrific, award winning actors as Helen Mirren, John Voight, versatile Ed Harris and of course principal characters played by Nicholas Cage, Harvey Keitel, Dianne Kruger and Justin Bartha. It is a fast paced, entertaining, fun, witty, interesting and great for history buffs who will immediately go to their books and websites to verify certain topics that are true and ponder on those that are so obviously not. I liked it very much and I plan to go see it again and buy it as soon as it is available. Points of interest in this movie are: Cibola-City of gold, London and Washington’s Twin desks containing secret information, Paris’ Statues of Liberty and something that makes you think: Is there really a Presidential Book of Secrets hidden somewhere in the Library of Congress or somewhere in Washington,D.C.? Oh, the possibilities.

Some critics have commented that some of the events in this movie are very far fetched and unbelievable and I guess that could be true. But let’s be fair. For a movie that comprises entertainment and is wholesome – as in: no foul language, gruesome violence or nudity and great for the whole family, something I can commend the studio on, I would say it is a pretty good film.   So many movies nowadays have scripts that lack content thus needing fillers too frequently used in the film industry today that really  trash a movie or makes it go on shock value alone.   Let’s face it amd be truthful, how many movies – not cartoons, mind you – can the whole family watch nowdays, without worrying about kids being exposed to  unnecessary and undesired topics?
To me, it clearly is a new and very clever take on the late 30′s episode adventures my grandparents took my very, very young parents and their siblings to view at the theatres. And let’s not forget, that these were the very serials that inspired movie greats: George Lucas and Steven Spielberg in creating characters for movies we so much love and enjoy.   The only drawback in my view is that we are going to have to wait for two more years to see the following installment and I already can hardly wait for it. Maybe it will be based on “Page 47 of the Book of Secrets”, since they did not elaborate too much on it, the way it was brought up but never mentioned one can only wonder.
I cannot wait for the new installment. Please hurry!!!!!