National Treasure - The Book of Secrets (2007)

I have just seen national treasures, it is a 2007 mystery adventure film directed by Jon Turteltaub and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer. It is a sequel to the 2004 film National Treasure and is the second part of the National Treasure franchise. The film stars Nicolas Cage, Diane Kruger, Justin Bartha, Jon Voight, Harvey Keitel, Ed Harris, Bruce Greenwood, and Helen Mirren. Five days after the end of the Civil War, John Wilkes Booth and Michael O'Laughlen, both members of the Knights of the Golden Circle (KGC), enter a tavern and approach Thomas Gates to decode a message. Thomas recognizes the message as using the Play fair cipher and begins to translate it. While he does so, Booth leaves for Ford's Theatre to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln. Thomas solves the puzzle and realizes the men are still loyal to the Confederacy. A fight breaks out, and Thomas rips several pages from the diary and throws them in the fireplace. Thomas is shot, and the gunman retrieves only a page fragment. Over 140 years later, Ben Gates is telling his great-great-grandfather's story at a Civilian Heroes conference. Black market antiquities dealer, Mitch Wilkinson, shows one of the 18 missing pages of John Wilkes Booth's diary, with Thomas Gates' name written on it, convincing everyone that Thomas was not only a conspirator, but the grand architect of the Lincoln assassination. Ben sets out to prove the innocence of Thomas. Using spectral imaging, Ben, his estranged girlfriend Abigail Chase, and friend Riley Poole discover a cipher pointing to Édouard Laboulaye, hidden on the back of the diary page. Ben and Riley travel to Paris, where they find a clue engraved on the torch of the scale model of the Statue of Liberty, referring to the two resolute desks. Nicolas Cage as Benjamin Franklin "Ben" Gates Justin Bartha as Riley Poole, Ben's best friend Diane Kruger as Dr. Abigail Chase, Ben's colleague and girlfriend Jon Voight as Patrick Henry Gates, Ben's father who is divorced from his wife Emily. Helen Mirren as Dr. Emily Appleton-Gates, Ben's mother who is divorced from her husband, Patrick. Ed Harris as Mitch Wilkinson, a black market dealer, and Ben's nemesis Harvey Keitel as FBI Special Agent Sadusky Armando Riesco as FBI Special Agent Hendricks Alicia Coppola as FBI Special Agent Spellman Albert Hall as Dr. Nichols Bruce Greenwood as President of the United States Ty Burrell as Connor, Abigail's new boyfriend who works at the White House