Book of Confusion

It's been nearly a week since I saw it, so let's see what's stuck from watching National Treasure: The Book of Secrets.

Let's see... there was a big staircase... no, wait, that was the first one... there was a fight with a bad guy who had the upper hand all along... hang on, that was the first as well... Actually, there are a lot of repeats from the first movie, but in the second we do have Ed Harris! Great actor, so at least there was something worth watching in this movie. He's the bad guy... sort of... it's kinda confusing...

Which brings up a main point about the plot. Could be considered spoilers, but there isn't a huge amount of actual plot to spoil. Ben's great-(whatever)-ancestor is implicated in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, so to prove he was innocent, Ben must find a lost City of Gold... what? The hell? I must have been brained unconscious at some point because what do those two things have to do with each other at any level? I kept waiting for some explanation, but...

Apart from being on a more global (which means they go to two cities outside of the USA), this is basically a rehash of the first, with lots of annoying clues leading to more clues and lots of puzzles that can only be worked out by knowing extremely detailed minutia of all periods of history, which of course everyone does know... then again, that's what was expected going in.

It's a nice light film that's best watched without thinking about in any shape or form...

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