A Fun Ride Indeed

Rating: 8/10 (15 October 2012)

A man sets out to steal a lost fortune in order to save it in this adventure drama entitled,National Treasure.
It is adventure heist film was written by Jim Kouf, Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Cormac Wibberley, and Marianne Wibberley, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, and directed by Jon Turteltaub. It stars Nicolas Cage,who plays Benjamin Franklin Gates, a historian and amateur cryptologist searching for a lost treasure of precious metals, jewelry, artwork and other artifacts that was accumulated into a single massive stockpile by looters and warriors over many millennium starting in Ancient Egypt, later rediscovered by warriors who form themselves into the Knights Templar to protect the treasure, eventually hidden by American Freemasons during the American Revolutionary War.Diane Kruger,Jon Voight,Harvey Keitel,Sean Bean,Justin Bartha and Christopher Plummer co- star to play key supporting roles.
Benjamin Franklin Gates is an archaeologist who is from the eighth generation of a family who has shared an unusual quest. As Gates-family legend has it, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin hid a massive cache of gold during the waning days of the Revolutionary War and left clues as to its whereabouts in the original drafts of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. With no firm proof that it actually exists, Gates sets out to crack the code that will lead him to the fortune, which, as a member of the Gates clan, he is sworn to protect from wrongdoers.
National Treasure is no treasure, but it's a fun ride for those who can forgive its highly improbable plot.But nevertheless,it gets more entertaining as the more preposterous it gets and as its implausibility rises.Overall,it is more like a triple-cross between The DaVinci Code, CSI, and The Amazing Race than Raiders of the Lost Ark.