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Once again we find Nicolas Cage, in the role of Ben Gates, in hot pursuit of another lost, hidden, mislaid, whatever treasure, being led by clues steeped in wild conspiracies of US history.

With scenery that could so easily have been borrowed from every Indiana Jones movie, mechanically opening cupboards and doors that have been recycled from the screen set of the Da Vinci Code and golden caskets and staircases from Valley of the Kings, this could have been a fairly inexpensive movie to put together, all in all!

Kidnapping the President of the US, played by Bruce Greenwood, traveling, with no sign of jet lag, from Washington D.C. to Buckingham Palace, UK, then on to Paris, France and ending up in a deep flooded carven under Mount Rushmore appears to have taken its toll on old man Cage and left him looking somewhat shattered, ghost like and under nourished.

The script was somewhat lacking for such a veteran actress as Helen Mirren, playing Nick’s mom, and Jon Voight as his old dad, but none the less keeps the audience glued to the screen waiting to spot some kind of difference between this and the last National Treasure movie.

Sadly, it would seem that we are in for another sequel to this, less than stimulating offering, when we are all left asking, ‘what is on page 47?’ (Go see the movie to understand!)

Although in the final scenes, Cage’s computer boffin sidekick, Riley Poole, played by Justin Bartha, notes that there is a ‘little gold man’ in the cavern, there certainly wont be any ‘little gold men’ for any of this cast at the Oscars in early 2008.

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