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A couple of days ago the movie National Treasure 2 was released, and since I sort of enjoyed the first part, I downloaded it the day before the release. And I must say, I’m not impressed. This sequel is almost twins with the first part: a LOT of what’s going on is pretty much the same and very predictable.
The general storyline is pretty much the same. The main character gets vague information on a treasure, finds a clue which points to another clue which points to another clue (etc), they have to do some things which seem pretty much impossible at first but succeed after all, and while they’re looking some people are forced to join the team, and one other group is looking for the same treasure but eventually one of them is forced to join the ‘good guys’ on the final steps to the treasure.
And then of course those parents who were separated, but are forced to join together on the final hunt to the treasure, and eventually fall back in love again. Gee, I’d never have expected that.
It’s the same. It’s predictable – like most of modern television. The good guys win, the bad guys get kicked in the face, and probably that goes hand in hand with some tight situations that the good guys barely escape from. Even when the good guys are facing “certain” death, you already know they will find a way out, simply because it’s not the way of television makers to kill such characters.
If you’ve seen the first National Treasure, seriously, don’t bother watching the sequel. It’s identical in almost every way. They could just as well have taken the first movie and put a 2 on the cover and release that.
Television would be so much more fun if for once it wasn’t always the “good” guys who always win (and “good” is in quotation marks because what is good or evil is always completely subjective).
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