Exactly what I expected

Rating: 6/10 (7 November 2005)

There apparently isn't much room for coming up with adventure stories that don't, in some form or another, resemble good old Indiana Jones's series. Apparently the bar was set so high one might actually argue it actually reached the peak of adventure movies, and that's almost 25 years ago. "National Treasure" isn't a bad movie at all, in fact it's pretty funny and at times even a tad unpredictable, but it lacks inovativity, something as I've mentioned before, hasn't been achieved in almost a quarter of a century-damn, it sounds even longer when I say it like this. How can this be, has Indie done absolutely every possible crazy stunt, been to the craziest places and discovered the most amazing things or is Hollywood just in some deadly serious hibernation state. Or have we just seen one too many similar movies and are just fed up.
Well this one is luckily one of the better ones, due to a funny script and good acting by the three main protagonists, Nicholas Cage-with more hair than usual I think, Justin Bartha-a very funny actor whom I know nothing about, and a sexy Diane Kruger. Somehow Jon Voight winds up in every second movie about hidden treasures so he's quite the familiar face-nowadays you can't get a motion picture like this started if he's not in it. Harvey Keitel seems rather misplaced-not really much reason to place such a strong actor in a small role that doesn't add any crucial meaning to the whole plot. Sean Bean plays his villain the way he's played him(self) in ooh, just about every movie so far so it's pretty much a standard routine here-I'd be so bold as to say the most standard routine from a known actor. He does add some new looks and smiles here and there for a change, he actually has a different hairstyle which I think helped get him into the character of "Sean Bean playing anyone-take 18sth", but if the saying that the movie is only as good as it's villain is true, then Sean Bean is one of the biggest mistakes in movies in the last 10 years. The more I think about it, the more I want to bash the guy right now-he genuinely sucks. "Goldeneye", "The Island", "Equilibrium", even the "Fellowship Of The Ring"-he just can't not act the same way he usually does-ergo he doesn't act at all, he just thinks he is. Apparently, so do some people in Hollywood. Me, I just know exactly what to expect and what not to-the latter being diversity.
Everything else is pretty much standard here, the score is rather unnoticeable, which is always a shame in these types of movies-you should hear some familiar theme to cheer for the good guy. I think I should write a manual for adventure movies, don't you-meaning, I'm going to stop with the bickering and just end this comment.
6/10-lacks inovativity and has Sean Bean and Jon Voight cast
Recommendations: kids, anyone who hasn't been "spoiled" by the Indiana Jones trilogy yet, fans of Sean Bean...man, they're never disappointed are they;)