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Tuesday, January 11, 2005 |
| National Treasure
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A Disney production and seems to be not very popular among the poeple... Starring Nicholas Cage, Harvey Keitel, Jon Voight, Diane Kruger, Sean Bean and Justin Bartha. Anyway, the story is about a legend about a huge pile of hidden treasure which was guarded by a secret society whose members, over the years, included the Founding Fathers of the United States of America. This secret was passed down to the Gates family and the current youngest generation was Benjamin Franklin Gates (Cage). He was told the legend when he was a young boy by his grandfather. Ever since he was obsessed or passionate as he would like to call it, about finding this treasure... Many years later, he sets out to find the first clue, "The Secret Lies Within Charlotte"... He teams up with Ian Howe (Bean) a rich man with lots of resources. But after they find the next clue which involves the Declaration of Independace,Benjamin decides to pull out but Ian refused to. This lead to Ian trying to kill Benjamin. Thankfully but not surprisingly, Benjamin survives, otherwise the movie would just end there. Anyway, in order to stop Ian, Benjamin's only choice was to steal the declaration. Actually it was his only choice because everyone else with the power to stop it did not want to listen mainly because they thought he was a lunatic. Anyway, he did manage to get it but unfortunately the declaration came with some trouble, in the form of Dr. Abigail Chase, the person in charge of the museum ni which the declaration was stored. Anyway, from one clue to another, Benjamin manages to get ahead of Ian, until of course the time when the evil guy always manages to get the good guy. Anyway, Benjamin was captured by the FBI but they made a deal where he helps them capture Ian first. However, he manages to get away and reunite with his assistant and Dr. Chase whom had join their alliance and also had obviously fallen for him. But still the bad guys have the upper hand since they had capture Benjamin's father. After that they were brought to the last place, the resting place of the treasure. When they got there, however, they met with a dead end. Beliving that Benjamin had the next clue, Ian forced him to tell him where the treasure really was. Benjamin and his father manages to trick them and after they supposedly left the good guys to die, Benjamin and his crew finds the treasure. Well in the end, being the good guy of course, they believe that the treasure should not be owned by any one man and so they decided that the best way was to spilt it to their respective countries, where the treasure were claimed and put them on display. They of course got their share as well and Benjamin being the leading man, naturally got the girl. The end. Well it was an ok story. Quite cool the way they made all the things that already exists into clue that lead to the treasure... but the movie itself wasn't that entertaining... I would say watch it if you have time but don't waste your money if you don't like The Mummy. It's not nearly as exciting... Cheers...
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| posted by
WanTse @ 1/11/2005 06:59:00 pm
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