Mitch, who had secretly cloned Patrick's cell phone in order to track Ben's whereabouts, pursues the trio, and eventually obtains the wooden plank, but not before Ben manages to photograph it.īack in America, Patrick reluctantly asks his ex-wife, archaeo- lexicologist Dr. Ben and Abigail sneak a peek at the Buckingham Palace desk, and obtain a Pre-Columbian carved plank from a secret drawer. They head to London, reluctantly recruiting Ben's estranged girlfriend, Dr. Traveling there, Ben and his friend Riley Poole discover an engraving referencing the Resolute desks. Using spectral imaging, Ben discovers traces of the cipher on the diary page, that, when solved using the keyword, points to the smaller Statue of Liberty in Paris. The public believes Thomas helped kill Lincoln, and Ben and his father Patrick set out to disprove it. Black market dealer Mitch Wilkinson produces the page fragment, with Thomas Gates' name next to those of Mary Surratt and Dr. More than 140 years later, famed treasure-hunter Ben Gates tells Thomas' story at a Civilian Heroes conference. O'Laughlen shoots Thomas and flees with the one surviving page fragment, and a dying Thomas tells his son Charles the keyword for the cipher.
Thomas solves the puzzle, realizes Booth and O'Laughlen are trying to help the Confederacy, and rips the cipher's pages from the diary to burn them. Thomas recognizes the message as a Playfair cipher, and translates it while Booth departs for Ford's Theatre to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln. It grossed $459 million worldwide.įive days after the end of the Civil War, John Wilkes Booth and Michael O'Laughlen, both members of the KGC, approach Thomas Gates to decode a message copied into Booth's diary.
Critics surveyed by Rotten Tomatoes called it too similar to its predecessor. The film premiered in New York City on December 13, 2007, and Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures released it in North America on December 21, 2007. The film stars Nicolas Cage in the lead role, Jon Voight, Harvey Keitel, Ed Harris, Diane Kruger, Justin Bartha, Bruce Greenwood and Helen Mirren. It is a sequel to the 2004 film National Treasure and is the second film of the National Treasure franchise. And why leave clues if they are designed never to be interpreted, and for that matter, you don't want anyone to interpret them? And although lots of gold has been mined in South Dakota, how much would it take to build a city? Remember, all the gold in Fort Knox is only enough to fill Fort Knox, which is about as big as City Hall in the underground city.National Treasure: Book of Secrets is a 2007 American action-adventure film directed by Jon Turteltaub and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer. Oh, yeah: He has George Washington's original blueprints.įor that matter, it's never explained why so many people over so many generations have spent so much time and money guarding the City of Gold. But, hey! After less than a minute of sprinkling, here's the mark of the spread eagle!Ĭompared to that, the necessity of kidnapping the president from his own birthday party and leading him into a tunnel beneath Mount Vernon is a piece of cake, even though it is never quite made clear how Benjamin knows about the tunnel. Rushmore, looking for hidden signs, and Benjamin interprets an ancient mention of "rain from a cloudless sky" and passes out half-liter bottles of drinking water for everyone to sprinkle on the rock so the old marking will show up? It's not a real big mountain, but it's way too big for six people to sprinkle with Crystal Geyser. Benjamin once again is an intuitive code-breaker, who has only to look at a baffling conundrum to solve it.Īnd what about their good fortune when they are on top of Mt. The heroes of this tale have what can only be described as extraordinary good luck. oh, yeah, the current president would like to know what's on, although if he is the only man allowed to look at the book, how does he know that he doesn't know what's on ? president hands over to his successor, which contains the truth about Area 51, the so-called moon landings, Nixon's missing 18 minutes, the JFK assassination and, let's see. It involves a missing page from Booth's diary, a coded message, an extinct language and a book that each U.S. No, this time it's not written in invisible ink on the back of the Declaration of Independence. And their search once again involves a secret document and a hidden treasure. Yes, once again they are all trapped within the earth and dangling over a terrifying drop. They're famous now (one has written a best seller), but they never discuss the coincidence that they are involved in an uncannily similar adventure.
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Yes, even the same FBI agent and the same National Archivist, plus Benjamin Franklin Gates ( Nicolas Cage) and his father, Patrick Henry Gates ( Jon Voight).
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