National Treasure

I don’t know exactly when this film began production, but a smart mover like Jerry Bruckheimer could probably have greenlit and turned around this film in pretty short order. To say that it shares certain traits with The Da Vinci code would be putting it loosely. It’s a romp around north eastern America in search of a treasure supposedly hidden by a combination of Templar knights and early US freemasons.
Nicolas Cage leads the charge with Diane Kruger amongst others in tow. Meanwhile, the bad guy is Sean Bean who seems to have rarely got a completely heroic roll since the Sharpe TV series.
Entertaining fare, with plot holes aplenty – but it moves with such a pace that you don’t have time to think about them too much.