Urban Indy

Rating: 6/10 (3 October 2005)

National Treasure is kind of an urban Indiana Jones (an ordinary guy playing the hero, some action, some comedy)but John Turteltaub is not Spielberg. Nicholas Cage's character is obsessed with some old treasure, the biggest ever (his father looked for it too, and his grandpa), and he'll get through any kind of troubles in order to find it.
In the beginning of the movie Turteltaub uses lots of "slow-motion" and other digital effects, but after a while he (wisely) puts all that stuff aside and films the story in a more serious way. The cast is just nice, but the characters are so stereotyped and the dialogs are rather poor and hackneyed.
It is OK if you just want to kill time (maybe it is a little too lengthy).
*My rate: 6/10