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Top Movies Eight Below Date Movie The Pink Panther Curious George Final Destination 3 Firewall Freedomland When a Stranger Calls Big Momma's House 2 Nanny McPhee New Releases Curious George Final Destination 3 Firewall The Pink Panther Date Movie Eight Below Freedomland Something New Failure to Launch When a Stranger Calls Top Celebs Reese Witherspoon Brad Pitt Paris Hilton Mariah Carey Lindsay Lohan Scarlett Johansson Phil Collins Britney Spears Angelina Jolie Jodie Marsh	National Treasure  Release Date - November 24th, 2004  Distributor - Touchstone Pictures  Duration - 2 hrs. 25 min.  Rating - PG for action violence and some scary images  Type - Comedy and Action/Adventure  Writer : Ted Elliott, E. Max Frye  Producer : Christina Steinberg , Jerry Bruckheimer , Jon Turteltaub , Oren Aviv , Charles Segars  Director : Jon Turteltaub  Starring : Nicolas Cage, Diane Kruger, Harvey Keitel, Christopher Plummer, Jon Voight  Synopsis Ben Franklin Gates (Cage), the eighth in a family of archaeologists goes in search of a secret chest of treasures hidden by America's founding fathers who hid the map in the Declaration of Independence and Constitution. Ben's close to discovering its whereabouts, as is his competition, but the FBI is also hip to the hunt.  Critic Reviews Grade : B Chicago Tribune : Cage plays Benjamin Franklin Gates (please, just call him Ben), the eighth generation of Gates men to hunt down the Knights Templar Treasure, a priceless cache said to have been amassed in the 11th Century, brought to America by the Freemasons and hidden by such vagabonds as Thomas Jefferson and George Washington.   more Grade : B- Filmcritic.com : The first 15 minutes in which National Treasure’s story begins to unfold comprise a nearly unbearable montage of cheese-ball History Channel-esque footage of knights and revolutionary generals mixed in with random Masonic symbols. Christopher Plummer’s gee-whiz grandfatherly voice drones softly on for what seems like an eternity, setting up what may be the hokiest plot ever conceived.   more Grade : C+ Chicago Sun-Times : The central weakness of the story is the absurdity of the clues, which are so difficult that no sane forefather could have conceivably believed that anyone could actually follow them. That the movie's hero, named Benjamin Franklin Gates and played by Nicolas Cage, is able to intuitively sense the occult meanings of ancient riddles and puzzles is less a tribute to his intelligence than to the screenplay supplying him with half a dozen bonus A-ha! Moments.   more Grade : C- New York Times : That mythology, derived from Freemasonry, holds that a map, drawn in invisible ink on the back of the Declaration of Independence, contains clues to the whereabouts of the Greatest Treasure Ever Told About. The Knights of Templar, some of whom were Founding Fathers, supposedly left a trail of coded clues that begins on a frozen ship north of the Arctic Circle and ends in the bowels of Lower Manhattan under a crumbling system of dumbwaiters.    more   For rating reasons : filmrating.com, mpaa.com                                    For Parents : Parentalguide.com
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