National Treasure (2004)
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 131m
Director: Jon Turteltaub
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Diane Kruger, Sean Bean, Jon Voight, Harvey Keitel, Justin Bartha, Christopher Plummer (as grandfather)
Synopsis:
Piqued as a child by his grandad's stories of the family's secret knowledge of the existence of a vast treasure, concealed by a brotherhood of freemasons at the time of the Declaration of Independence, Benjamin Franklin Gates grows up into a treasure hunter, determined to find and protect the treasure against less scrupulous competitors.
Review:
Like a thinking man's Indiana Jones, though only on the most comic strip of levels, and anticipating The Da Vinci Code by a couple of years, this Bruckheimer/Disney collaboration-cum-franchise-to-be mixes masonic puzzle solving with torches and burial chambers to generally engaging effect. The logistics take some swallowing, particularly when it comes to the theft of the Declaration document, but if you settle in for the ride it is good, harmless family entertainment, albeit forgettable. Kruger, in a less dramatic role than usual, makes a feisty heroine; Cage, who made a career of this sort of thing, is, well, Cage.
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 131m
Director: Jon Turteltaub
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Diane Kruger, Sean Bean, Jon Voight, Harvey Keitel, Justin Bartha, Christopher Plummer (as grandfather)
Synopsis:
Piqued as a child by his grandad's stories of the family's secret knowledge of the existence of a vast treasure, concealed by a brotherhood of freemasons at the time of the Declaration of Independence, Benjamin Franklin Gates grows up into a treasure hunter, determined to find and protect the treasure against less scrupulous competitors.
Review:
Like a thinking man's Indiana Jones, though only on the most comic strip of levels, and anticipating The Da Vinci Code by a couple of years, this Bruckheimer/Disney collaboration-cum-franchise-to-be mixes masonic puzzle solving with torches and burial chambers to generally engaging effect. The logistics take some swallowing, particularly when it comes to the theft of the Declaration document, but if you settle in for the ride it is good, harmless family entertainment, albeit forgettable. Kruger, in a less dramatic role than usual, makes a feisty heroine; Cage, who made a career of this sort of thing, is, well, Cage.
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 131m
Director: Jon Turteltaub
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Diane Kruger, Sean Bean, Jon Voight, Harvey Keitel, Justin Bartha, Christopher Plummer (as grandfather)
Synopsis:
Piqued as a child by his grandad's stories of the family's secret knowledge of the existence of a vast treasure, concealed by a brotherhood of freemasons at the time of the Declaration of Independence, Benjamin Franklin Gates grows up into a treasure hunter, determined to find and protect the treasure against less scrupulous competitors.
Review:
Like a thinking man's Indiana Jones, though only on the most comic strip of levels, and anticipating The Da Vinci Code by a couple of years, this Bruckheimer/Disney collaboration-cum-franchise-to-be mixes masonic puzzle solving with torches and burial chambers to generally engaging effect. The logistics take some swallowing, particularly when it comes to the theft of the Declaration document, but if you settle in for the ride it is good, harmless family entertainment, albeit forgettable. Kruger, in a less dramatic role than usual, makes a feisty heroine; Cage, who made a career of this sort of thing, is, well, Cage.