The Newest Movie Trend: Video Game Movies Not Based on Video Games

The critics hate National Treasure: Book of Secrets. This will come as no surprise to those whose jaws hung open after reading three straight glowing reviews of the Bored of the Rings cinematic cures for insomnia. Critics these days seem to know even less about what makes a movie tick than critics of the past. Is National Treasure: Book of Secrets of a masterpiece? Of course, not; Jerry Bruckheimer was involved with it, for God's sake. Jerry Bruckheimer and masterpiece are two words that will never been seen together in any sentence other than one like this sentence you are now reading. Roger Ebert, who probably should have retired long before his debilitating illness, writes that those who are expecting logic should check their brains at the door. It is obvious from those words that Roger Ebert has confused National Treasure: Book of Secrets with filmmaking. It is not a movie. It is a video game; a medium where logic is generally viewed with Cheney-like suspicion.