Product Description
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National Treasure: From Jerry Bruckheimer, producer of PIRATES
OF THE CARIBBEAN, comes the definitive NATIONAL TREASURE. Get
closer to the edge of your seat with the 2-Disc Collector's
Edition Blu-ray of this thrilling adventure starring Academy
Award(R) Winners Jon Voight (Best Actor, COMING HOME, 1978) and
Nicolas Cage (Best Actor, LEAVING LAS VE, 1995) as Benjamin
Franklin Gates. Since boyhood, Gates has been obsessed with
finding the legendary Knights Templar Treasure, the greatest
fortune known to man. As he tries to find and decipher ancient
riddles that will lead him to it, Gates is dogged by a ruthless
enemy (Sean Bean, THE LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy). Now in a race
against time, Gates must steal one of America's most sacred and
guarded documents -- the Declaration of Independence -- or let
it, and a key clue to the mystery, fall into dangerous hands.
Heart-pounding chases, close calls and the FBI turn Gates' quest
into a high-stakes crime caper and the most exciting treasure
hunt you've ever experienced, now with a treasure trove of new
special features
National Tresure 2- Book of Secrets:
Join Nicolas Cage on a heart-pounding adventure that will have
you on the edge of your seat in a race to find the Lost City of
Gold. Grounded in history, imbued with myth and mystery, Disney's
NATIONAL TREASURE 2: BOOK OF SECRETS takes you on a
globe-trotting quest full of adrenaline-pumping twists and turns
-- all leading to the final clue in a mysterious and highly
guarded book containing centuries of secrets. But there's only
one way to find it -- Ben Gates must kip the President. Packed
with fast-paced action and crackling humor, NATIONAL TREASURE 2:
BOOK OF SECRETS is a movie your entire family will want to
rediscover again and again
.com
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Like a Hardy Boys mystery on steroids, National Treasure offers
popcorn thrills and enough boyish charm to overcome its rampant
silliness. Although it was roundly criticized as a poor man's
rip-off of Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Da Vinci Code, it's
entertaining on its own ludicrous terms, and Nicolas Cage proves
once again that one actor's infectious enthusiasm can compensate
for a multitude of movie sins. The contrived plot involves Cage's
present-day quest for the ancient treasure of the Knights
Templar, kept secret through the ages by Freemasons past and
present. Finding the treasure requires the theft of the
Declaration of Independence (there are crucial treasure clues on
the back, of course!), so you can add "caper comedy" to this
Jerry Bruckheimer production's multi-genre appeal. Nobody will
ever accuse director Jon Turtletaub of artistic ambition, but
you've got to admit he serves up an enjoyable dose of PG-rated
entertainment, full of musty clues, skeletons, deep tunnels, and
harmless adventure in the old-school tradition. It's a load of
hokum, but it's fun hokum, and that makes all the difference.
--Jeff Shannon
.com Review for "National Treasure: Book of Secrets"
Less engrossing than its 2004 predecessor National Treasure, Jon
Turteltaubs busy sequel National Treasure: Book of Secrets is
nevertheless a colorful and witty adventure, another race against
overwhelming odds for the answer to a historical riddle. Ben
Gates (Nicolas Cage), the treasure hunter who feverishly sought,
in the first film, the whereabouts of a war chest hidden by
Americas forehers, is now charged with protecting family
honor. When a rival (Ed Harris) offers alleged proof that Gates
ancestor, Thomas Gates, was not a Civil War-era hero but a
participant in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, Ben and his
her (Jon Voight) and crew (Justin Bartha, Diane Kruger)
hopscotch through Paris, London, Washington DC, and South Dakota
to gather evidence refuting the cl. The film is most fun when
the hunt, as in National Treasure, squeezes Ben into such
impossible situations as examining twin desks in the queens
chambers in Buckingham Palace and the White Houses Oval Office,
or kipping an American president (Bruce Greenwood) for a few
minutes of frank talk. Helen Mirren, the previous year's O
winner for Best Actress, wisely joins the cast of a likely hit
film as Bens archaeologist mother, long-estranged from Voights
character but as feisty as the rest of the family. Returning
director Turteltaub takes excellent advantage of his colorful
backdrops in European capitals and the always-eerie
Rushmore, and oversees some wildly imaginative sets for this
dramedys feverish third act in an audacious and completely
unexpected, legendary setting. If National Treasure: Book of
Secrets doesnt feel quite as crisp and unique as its
predecessor, it is still ingenious and wry enough to laugh a bit
at itself. --Tom Keogh
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