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National Treasure Director: Jon Turteltaub Cast: Nicolas Cage, Diane Kruger, Justin Bartha, Sean Bean

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  • Blu-ray Release Date: 05/20/2008
  • Original Release: 2005
  • Rating: Rated PG
  • Sales Rank: 10,225
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Closed Caption; Mission History: Inside the Declaration of Independence; Audio commentary with director Jon Turteltaub and actor Justin Bartha; Alternate ending with optional director's audio commentary; Deleted scenes with optional director's audio commentary; Seven featurette gems

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Although this rousing adventure film takes place in the present and sports any number of up-to-the-minute gadgets and gimmicks, it's firmly rooted in the high-adventure style of an earlier era. We'll go so far as to say that National Treasure could just as easily have been made 50 years ago. But then it wouldn't have had Nicolas Cage, who infuses his derring-do with even more believability than the script demands. He plays Ben Gates, the youngest in a family of historians dedicated to uncovering a fabulous treasure secreted by our country's Founding Fathers during the Revolutionary War. As the movie begins, Ben has already deciphered several coded clues to the treasure's whereabouts that are sprinkled -- here the film echoes the bestselling novel The Da Vinci Code -- throughout the Declaration of Independence and other historic documents, and even our paper money. And he's managed to convince National Archives worker Abigail Chase (Diane Kruger) that he's on the level. Now all they have to do is get to the buried riches before unscrupulous Ian Howe (Sean Bean) confiscates the stash. Director Jon Turteltaub (While You Were Sleeping) paces National Treasure like one of those old Saturday-matinee cliff-hangers: chase, capture, rescue, and all over again. He breezes past the yarn's improbabilities -- which, we must confess, are myriad -- and concentrates on pumping up the action sequences until they've reached a feverish, nail-biting intensity. We have always felt that Cage was one of the screen's unlikeliest action heroes, but he brings such intensity to the film that you can't help but believe him, even in the most outlandish situations. Jon Voight lends strong support as his father, and Christopher Plummer completes the family tree with a twinkly-eyed turn as Cage's grandpa. For two hours of wildly implausible fun, you could hardly do better than National Treasure. Ed Hulse, Barnes & Noble

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Great fun for fans of history and action alikeby Karinita

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November 07, 2008: Who would not wonder at the idea of stealing a national treasure? Ever since "The Da Vinci Code" was published, much has been said about the Knights Templar and the existence of a magnanimous treasure, sometimes with religious implications, sometimes, as is the case in "National Treasure", just related to pure mutiny. I was never a fan of American history, yet this movie has managed to lit up my interest in it.

The story centers around Benjamin Franklin Gates, a role impersonated by Nicolas Cage. A descendant of THE Benjamin Franklin, historian, engineer and Navy ROTC Ben Gates is on a quest after a family's life pursuit about the ancient treasure of the Knights Templar, that somehow seems to have found its way to America during the Revolutionary War, and was hidden in this land by the Freemasons who, among others, counted the names of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin himself as members. But the Gates family has been the laughing stock of the historical community in Washington D.C. for generations due to the elusiveness of said treasure. Just when Ben Gates appears to have found someone rich enough and willing to fund a costly search that includes an expedition to the Arctic, Ben realizes that not everyone has the same solemn intentions as he does when it comes to finding the greatest treasure ever coveted by mankind. For starters, the clues leading to its discovery are to be found in the Declaration of Independence... but how does one get to it and, more importantly, how can the clues be interpreted? Ben has his friend and co-conspirator Riley Poole, played by hilarious Justin Bartha, and National Archives expert Dr. Abigail Chase (played by Diane Kruger) as his right and left hands to help him.

This is the premise of "National Treasure", a movie which unpacks fun and loads of action while taking the viewer on location to the National Archives and the Library of Congress in Washington D.C., the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, and the catacombs under Trinity Church in New York City.

I have enjoyed it immensely, especially the historical aspect. Although the acting is not stellar by any means, one must admit that Sean Bean still offers a fantastic view of the human male species even when he is getting on years, and the feminine element offered by Diane Kruger as Dr. Chase is... cute, though sometimes borderline callous.

True to a Jerry Bruckheimer production, the film offers great photography, and the 2-disc Collector's Edition is jam-packed with extras presented in the form of a treasure hunt, my favorites being "Riley's Decode This!", with three levels of discovery - of which I still have not been ablt to conquer them all! - and the featurette on "Ciphers, Codes & Codebreakers", a great documentary on code making and breaking that goes back to the first World War. The deleted scenes offer much needed background to the film, although it is understandable how they did not make it into it - at 2:35 hours, nothing else could go in.

This review was written about the DVD Collector's Edition / Wide Screen edition.

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July 27, 2008: The exploration of the National Treasure is fascinating, but the characters are just awful and the mythology is off as well.

This review was written about the DVD Collector's Edition / Wide Screen edition.


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