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Date Posted: 14:12:28 11/23/04 Tue
Author: Hugh Jazz
Subject: National Treasure

I liked National Treasure quite a bit. A good historical adventure movie that has more emphasis on the historical than the adventure, but still worth seeing. As with any movie, there are small things to nitpick, but those items get lost in the greater scheme of things. One that does stick in the craw, the female lead (a bigwig at the National Archives) played by Diane Kruger and appearing to be about 25. I guess it wouldn't have been good for business to have Nicolas Cage kiss a 60 year-old dustmuffin, as would be expected of an employee of the National Archives.

The story is Cage plays Benjamin Franklin Gates who is part of a family that has for generations been searching for the alleged "Treasure of the Knights' Templar" a horde of historical artifacts and booty stashed away by our founding fathers under the banner of the supersecret clan of the Freemasons. However, the search has been mostly fruitless for 180 years and has caused the good family name to become besmirched and for Cage to be estranged from his father, played by Jon Voight. However, Gates refuses to let those minor obstacles hold him back and with the help of a shady benefactor (Sean Bean), who turns on him, he unearths another clue that might actually hold the secret of the precious treasure.

Cage is good and I never mind seeing him in big-budget movies, such as The Rock and ConAir. It's a Disney movie, so the scares and violence are kept to a minimum.

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