The Gates Family wants to clear their family name as being part of the plot to assassinate President Lincoln

Rating: 1/10 (7 June 2008)

Note to Hollywood: Stop making sequels, especially if the original was not that great to begin with. The only sequel that has, so far, been decent, was Shrek 2, but that's another review. This sequel to the first movie was so ludicrous, well, where to begin? At least with the first movie, most of what happened was plausible. But in this sequel it would be hard-pressed for a 6-year old to buy into the fact that someone could break into Buckingham Palace, let alone into the Queen's private office, AND get into the Oval Office without a troop of Secret Service personnel everywhere. Then there's the issue of why The Bad Guy (played by Ed Harris, and unfortunately not convincingly) was now presenting evidence of a conspiracy, but the FBI never went after that angle. Yea, he wanted Ben Gates (Cage) to lead him to the treasure, but why not do that sooner, since the Gates character had been around looking for treasure for years? What we have here is an almost duplicate of the first movie, virtually line by line, with the added character of the mom (Mirren, who is miscast, but at least gives us something to look forward to), and Cage with a bad haircut and color job. That there is a 3rd in the making... Let's hope that in the 3rd installment that Cage gets a better barber.