National Treasure
Historian and code-breaker Ben Gates has been searching his whole life for a rumored treasure dating back to the creation of the United States, the greatest treasure the world has ever known.
5 November 1934, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
7 September 1957, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia
7 January 1970, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
5 December 1965, San Alejo, La Union, El Salvador
9 December 1956, Saint-Julien, France
6 February 1957, Independence, Missouri, USA
15 July 1976, Algermissen, Lower Saxony, Germany
30 June 1972
3 October 1974, London, England, UK
September 11, 1985 in Woodbury, New Jersey, USA
13 May 1939, Brooklyn, New York, USA
8 November 1959, San Diego, California, USA
26 August 1967, Arzamas-16, Gorkovskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Sarov, Nizhegorodskaya oblast, Russia]
1953
3 May 1949, New York City, New York, USA
8 June 1994, Springfield, Missouri, USA
5 June 1970, Dallas, Texas, USA
12 March 1962, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
23 September 1973, Chicago, Illinois, USA
August 25, 2008
Not only safe for Junior and Grandma but also pretty entertaining.
November 24, 2004
This movie is a fortune wasted.
November 19, 2004
Taken simply as a popcorn flick, National Treasure has its pleasures.
July 23, 2008
Turteltaub manages to stitch it all together well enough so that the ludicrous nature of the characters' quest doesn't hit you until the final credits roll.
December 26, 2010
Historical adventure is a fun romp for tweens and up.
June 24, 2006
A mild holiday caper, for the wettest of afternoons.
November 23, 2004
National Treasure gets more entertaining as the preposterousness rises.
April 29, 2009
Though Turtletaub's direction is inspired, everything else from acting, to plot, and dialogue falls flat...
December 06, 2005
Has almost nothing to recommend it (Justin Bartha's performance being the lone high point), not even any gnarly explosions, which doesn't bode well for our man Bruckheimer.
November 20, 2004
Cage? Movie star as social studies teacher.
September 27, 2006
If you can see the film through the eyes of a child -- one who thinks a cheesy thriller is the ideal way to pick up new facts about history -- then this isn't that bad a yarn.
November 22, 2004
So bad on so many levels.
