National Treasure

    National Treasure
    2004

    Synopsis

    Modern treasure hunters, led by archaeologist Ben Gates, search for a chest of riches rumored to have been stashed away by George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin during the Revolutionary War. The chest's whereabouts may lie in secret clues embedded in the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, and Gates is in a race to find the gold before his enemies do.

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    Cast

    • Nicolas CageBenjamin Franklin Gates
    • Diane KrugerAbigail Chase
    • Justin BarthaRiley Poole
    • Sean BeanIan Howe
    • Jon VoightPatrick Gates
    • Harvey KeitelPeter Sadusky
    • Christopher PlummerJohn Adams Gates
    • David Dayan FisherShaw
    • Stewart Finlay-McLennanPowell
    • Oleg TaktarovShippen

    Recommendations

    • 75

      Chicago Tribune

      Overall the film is alluringly over-the-top without being overcooked.
    • 75

      Charlotte Observer

      The film whirls by in a satisfying torrent of chases, escapes and discoveries.
    • 63

      Miami Herald

      It's a tomb-raiding adventure movie several notches below Indiana Jones status.
    • 63

      Philadelphia Inquirer

      An undeniable pleasure of National Treasure was watching a movie shot locally that wasn't haunted by a virus or by dead people.
    • 50

      Christian Science Monitor

      Too bad the clever bits are swamped by no-brainer gunfights, rescues, and chases galore.
    • 50

      Seattle Post-Intelligencer

      Too dumb and improbable to even go into.
    • 40

      TV Guide Magazine

      It's a silly, stupendously artificial enterprise.
    • 30

      The A.V. Club

      It lacks the conviction to embrace its own garish awfulness, resulting in little more than tedious historical and patriotic hokum, a preposterous potboiler done in by slack pacing and pedestrian execution.

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