The supporting cast is marginally better, the script is considerably worse but the NATIONAL TREASURE formula —
Da Vinci Code-style riddles and historically inaccurate scavenger hunts crossed with booby traps and feats of derring-do straight out of
Indiana Jones — remains exactly, exhaustingly the same.
A famous treasure hunter since he found the Templar's fabled treasure deep under Manhattan’s Trinity Church, Ben Gates (Nicolas Cage) lectures about his great-grandfather, 19th-century code breaker Thomas Gates (Joel Gretsch), who was asked to decode a cipher found scribbled in the pages of a diary belonging to none other than John Wil...
Released:
2007
Rated:
PG
Length:
120 mins