by Lisa Hemsley

Created on: July 07, 2010   Last Updated: July 08, 2010

After loving the first National treasure, I was really looking forward to seeing this sequel, unfortunately both me and hubby were both left very disappointed.

The film again stars Nicholas Cage who is playing the role of Benjamin Franklin Gates who is still a treasure hunter and following on from the end of the first film he has now split up from his girlfriend and is living with his Dad. He is giving a presentation which involves his talking about the death of president Lincoln when at the end a man stands up and has proof that Benjamin’s great great Grandfather was in fact involved in the assassination plot and not one of the men who tried to save him.

Benjamin and his Father try to investigate this claim and with the help of their old friend who helped find the treasure in the first film and reluctantly agreeing to let his ex-girlfriend help they set about discovering the truth and also along the way finding the book of treasures.

Benjamin finds he has to overcome a lot to get his answers including getting to see and investigate the Queens desk in Buckingham Palace and kidnapping the President in order to get to talk to him. Will Benjamin be able to solved the clues to the real murderers of Lincoln and will he be able to find the book of secrets and the treasure which to book is hiding?

Now don’t get me wrong the film was OK, but there was just nothing new from the first. The story was basically the same with Benjamin trying to find clues to find the hiding place of the gold. The baddy was always close behind him and then he did something very bad which resulted in the FBI and police also chasing him. This is exactly what happened in the first film. I was expecting the plot to take a slightly different turn to give the film a different edge and take it away slightly from the first.

Nicholas Cage was again very good in his role of Benjamin Gates and his character was very believable. The other supporting actors and actresses were also very good and they all worked well together. I though that there was good chemistry between them all and liked how Benjamin and his ex-girlfriend were always arguing!

The film did seem quite far fetched at times especially when they managed to sneak into Buckingham Palace as that would just be impossible and I did find it made us look very stupid at not having the correct security in place to stop this. I also found I learnt something from this film as I was not aware of there being 3 Statues of Liberty and found

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