Critics hated it, but it's a Great Film

Rating: 8/10 (10 August 2005)

For the script writers come up with this story, they must have talent, it's brilliant, the film is great. Taking a very basic idea and making it into a full on blockbuster movie, with academy award winning actor, Nicolas Cage. Jerry Bruckheimer is a well known Movie producer, with films like Black Hawk Down, Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl and Kangaroo Jack, there was no doubt that this would be a massive hit. Director Jon Turteltaub("Phenomenon") worked hard with Jerry Bruckheimer to get this into the cinemas earlier than the target date.
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 treasures location. 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. The film is a lot like The Da Vinci Code because they keep finding clues after clues which lead to more clues.
But what he thought was the final clue was only the beginning. The film was rushed towards the end as they probably could have made a sequel but nevertheless a decent movie, with a high budget, this movie will capture audiences throughout the world with it's exciting plot. Next up The Da Vinci Code.