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National Treasure (Widescreen Edition)
- Color
- Closed-captioned
- Widescreen
The Editors Desk:
Like a Hardy Boys mystery on steroids, National Treasure offers popcorn thrills and enough boyish charm to overcome its rampant silliness. Although it was roundly criticized as a poor man's rip-off of Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Da Vinci Code, it's entertaining on its own ludicrous terms, and Nicolas Cage proves once again that one actor's infectious enthusiasm can compensate for a multitude of movie sins. The contrived plot involves Cage's present-day quest for the ancient treasure of the Knights Templar, kept secret through the ages by Freemasons past and present. Finding the treasure requires the theft of the Declaration of Independence (there are crucial treasure clues on the back, of course!), so you can add "caper comedy" to this Jerry Bruckheimer production's multi-genre appeal. Nobody will ever accuse director Jon Turtletaub of artistic ambition, but you've got to admit he serves up an enjoyable dose of PG-rated entertainment, full of musty clues, skeletons, deep tunnels, and harmless adventure in the old-school tradition. It's a load of hokum, but it's fun hokum, and that makes all the difference. --Jeff Shannon
Avg. Customer Review: 
 Another "chase movie" with a contrived plot
No real cleverness. No real action adventure. It's a scavenger hunt for your hard earned money. Rent it if you must but don't waste your money to buy it.
Almost Believable Fiction
The interesting thing about "National Treasure" is that it almost COULD be true. There's as much evidence to say the Knights Templar took the Temple of Jerusalem treasures as not; as much evidence that they took it to Europe as not; even that it could have found its way to England. How would it get to America? I'm at a loss there...
I've seen a few reviewers complain that Cage's performance doesn't come close to Harrison Ford in "Indiana Jones"... which I think is a bit unfair. The Indiana Jones character was a seasoned man of action. Cage's character is just a regular guy trying to untangle a family mystery. Of course he's not going to be like Indiana Jones.
I thought the movie was interesting, although I find the whole Knights Templar/Freemasons thing to be interesting, so I'm biased. There are certain points of the movie where the director was definitely reaching (the love scenes, if you can call them that, are always uncomfortable and seem pushed into the film) and some points reminded me of "The Goonies".
Overall though, I would recommend it as a fun movie to watch. Don't expect a masterpiece and don't be too critical on the storyline (although I find those who think the whole Templar connection to bunk quite entertaining).
National Stinker
This film is a bunch of nonsense, a poor mans Indian Jones, badly acted, poorly scripted and a paper thin plot based tenuous links to american history - save yourself a couple of hours of your life and avoid.
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