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National Treasure (7/10)

June 20th, 2005

National Treasure was blasted by many critics as a nonsensical, action-mystery wannabe. For the most part they are right, but this movie was just good ol’ plain fun to watch. To sum up the unusual plot, the movie follows Ben Gates (Nicolas Cage) as a man devoting his life to figuring out the family mystery that was told to him as a boy about the largest treasure in the world, how it was hidden by some of the founding fathers fo the U.S., and how his great great grandfather was given a single clue to find and protect it.

I won’t give away any more of the predictable story, but Ben does go on quite an adventure to find the treasure. It really follows the usual action flick formula: he has a sidekick, he meets a girl and falls in love with her, and he is met with many insurmountable obstacles and always seems to get past them. But that formula has been around for a reason, and when you add big production company money to it, you get a fun movie to watch.

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