Horrific.

Rating: 2/10 (8 January 2008)

I liked National Treasure enough, but I completely loathed Book of Secrets. It was just loaded with an entirely clichéd story, clichéd characters, wildly predictable situations and probably the most contrived and utterly unbelievable events I've ever seen in a film. I was just in awe the entire time about how ridiculous it was. I was expecting a bit of that coming in to the film (I mean I got past the clichés and contrivances of the first one and found it to be decent entertainment) but it was just way too much this time around. Every second introduced a new painfully ridiculous event that had me cringing in my seat. If it wasn't for Justin Bartha, who I still enjoyed a lot and found hilarious throughout, I probably would have slit my wrists.