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National Treasure (2004)

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Reviews Counted: 163 Fresh: 70  Rotten:93 Average Rating: 5.2/10
 
Consensus: National Treasure is no treasure, but it's a fun ride for those who can forgive its highly improbable plot.
 

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Runtime: 2 hrs 11 mins

Theatrical Release: Nov 19, 2004 Wide

Box Office: $172,975,674

Synopsis: A secret from our nation's past will lead to the greatest adventure in history. Producer Jerry Bruckheimer ("Pirates of the Caribbean,""The Rock," and "Armageddon") and director Jon Turteltaub ("Phenomenon,""While You Were Sleeping") team up to bring you "National... A secret from our nation's past will lead to the greatest adventure in history. Producer Jerry Bruckheimer ("Pirates of the Caribbean,""The Rock," and "Armageddon") and director Jon Turteltaub ("Phenomenon,""While You Were Sleeping") team up to bring you "National Treasure." Academy Award®-winner Nicolas Cage stars as the brilliant Benjamin Franklin Gates, third generation treasure hunter. All his life, Gates has been searching for a treasure no one believed existed: amassed through the ages, moved across continents, to become the greatest treasure the world has ever known. Hidden by our Founding Fathers, they left clues to the Treasure's location right before our eyes … from our nation's birthplace, to the nation's capitol, to clues buried within the symbols on the dollar bill. Gates' life-long journey leads him to the last place anyone thought to look: a map hidden on the back of the Declaration of Independence. But what he thought was the final clue is only the beginning. Gates realizes in order to protect the world's greatest treasure, he must now do the unthinkable: steal the most revered, best guarded document in American history before it falls into the wrong hands. In a race against time, Gates must elude the authorities, stay one step ahead of his ruthless adversary (Sean Bean), decipher the remaining clues and unlock the 2000 year-old mystery behind our greatest national treasure. -- © Walt Disney Pictures [More]

Genre: Action/Adventure

Starring: Nicolas Cage, Justin Bartha, Sean Bean, Diane Kruger, Harvey Keitel

Director: Jon Turteltaub
Screenwriter: Cormac Wibberly, Marianne Wibberly
Producer: Christina Steinberg, Jerry Bruckheimer, Jon Turteltaub
Composer: Trevor Rabin

DVD Info

Release:

May 20, 2008

[DVD Details]

Blu-ray Features:

  • Anamorphic Widescreen - 2.35

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround - English, French, Spanish
  • Subtitles - French, Spanish - Optional

Additional Release Material:

  • Alternate Ending with Optional Director's Audio Commentary
  • Audio Commentary - Jon Turteltaub - Director; Justin Bartha - Actor
  • Deleted Scenes with Optional Director's Audio Commentary
  • Featurette - 1. Blu-ray Exclusive: MISSION HISTORY: INSIDE THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
  • 2. EXPLODING CHARLOTTE
  • 3. On Set of American History
  • 4. TO STEAL A NATIONAL TREASURE
  • 5. CIPHERS, CODES AND CODEBREAKERS
  • 6. TREASURE HUNTERS REVEALED
  • 7. THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR
  • 8. NATIONAL TREASURE ON LOCATION

Interactive Features:

  • Trivia Track

Text/Photo Galleries:

  • Opening Scene Animatic with Optional Director's Audio Commentary

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08/07/08
Jim Lane
Sacramento News & Review
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Turteltaub manages to stitch it all together well enough so that the ludicrous nature of the characters' quest doesn't hit you until the final credits roll.

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07/23/08
James Mottram
Channel 4 Film
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It's so completely okay it hurts. It would make a perfect screensaver.

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05/18/08
Rob Humanick
Projection Booth
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1/4

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12/27/07
Joe Lozito
Big Picture Big Sound
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2/4

If you can see the film through the eyes of a child -- one who thinks a cheesy thriller is the ideal way to pick up new facts about history -- then this isn't that bad a yarn.

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09/27/06
Peter T. Chattaway
Christianity Today
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A mild holiday caper, for the wettest of afternoons.

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06/24/06
Trevor Johnston
Time Out
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1/5

Has almost nothing to recommend it (Justin Bartha’s performance being the lone high point), not even any gnarly explosions, which doesn’t bode well for our man Bruckheimer.

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12/06/05
Pete Vonder Haar
Film Threat
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4/5

The treasure hunt is cool in this DVD, it's a whole game of numbers and quizzes go get to some of the Easter eggs.

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10/14/05
Michael Szymanski
Wordmag.com
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7/10

The film plays on every cliché and every stereotype imaginable, and part of its charm is playing them exactly to an audience's happiest expectations.

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04/20/05
John J. Puccio
DVDTown.com
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3/4

The historical touches make the film more akin to classics like "Raiders of the Lost Ark" than to duds like "Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins (and ended simultaneously)".

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04/17/05
Wesley Lovell
Oscar Guy
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C-

A big, overblown wazoo of absurdity.

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01/24/05
Christopher Smith
Bangor Daily News (Maine)
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90/100

This is a bravura film that genuinely understands the nature of true family entertainment and provides it in spades.

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01/15/05
Scott Andrews
FilmFocus
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4/5

National Treasure may be dumb and relatively short on action scenes, but it's still a lot of fun, largely thanks to Cage and Bartha.

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12/27/04
Matthew Turner
ViewLondon
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This is Bruckheimer’s niche. Don’t ever expect him to adapt a Nicholas Sparks book into a film any time soon.

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12/27/04
Michael Drakulich
Star Newspapers (Chicago, IL)
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3/4

Few can argue that the movie is totally unbelievable, but if one is able to leave all sense of logic at the door, it's very hard not to have a darn good time in the process.

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12/21/04
David Keyes
Cinemaphile.org
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B

Stealing the Declaration of Indepenence is easy - making an interesting film is tough!

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12/17/04
Tony Toscano
Talking Pictures (U.S.)
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2.5/4.0

... a semi-historical mystery-thriller... too many chases and clichés keep this good movie from being great.

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12/14/04
Kevin A. Ranson
MovieCrypt.com
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2/5

This movie couldn't be more stale if it'd been dug up by archaeologists.

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12/14/04
Stella Papamichael
BBC
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All of this could have been lots of fun. If only Harrison Ford, or someone just as good, had played Ben.

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12/08/04
Shirley Sealy
Film Journal International
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B-

Works fairly well as slick, enjoyable hooey… in its general approach if not all particulars, this could represent a promising new approach in family entertainment.

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12/08/04
Steven D. Greydanus
Decent Films Guide
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