National Treasure is ELITE

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What an all time action packed film full of twists and turns all over the place. The opening scene just grabs you, hearing about the story of this potential treasure that could be right under our noses and we hear the quote "the secret lies with Charlotte" thus setting up the whole story. We get Nic Cage at his absolutely best working with Doug from The Hangover before he became Doug and Diane Kruger looking her absolute best. There is really no better actor to play someone hunting a treasure based on a wild conspiracy theory than Nic Cage himself. I really wouldn't be surprised if he was a treasure hunter in his free time. This movie also has an all-time dumb villian, that dickhead idiot Ian. Ian is such a dickhead name. Ian is such a big dumb idiot too, does he realize he wouldn't be able to find shit if he wasn't riding Ben Gates' coattails? He's always asking for the next clue and waiting to see what Ben does next. An absolute clown. Look at this guy, he just looks like the kid that bully's his way through middle school because he can't figure out Intro to Algebra.

"Give me the next clue, BEN"

As I alluded to earlier this movie wastes zero time getting you into the action. Theses guys blow up a ship in the arctic before you can say "Declaration of Independence" and then it's not too long before we hear one of the greatest and most memorable lines in cinematic history uttered "I'm gonna steal the Declaration of Independence". There's ups and downs and twists and turns, ups and downs, and even a little love story sprinkled in. It's just 131 minutes of action start to finish and if you can't appreciate a film that gives you that start to finish then there's no hope for you. This is a piece of cinematic history that should be in the Smithsonian.