I found a link (somewhere, so apologies to whoever drew my attention to it for the no mention) pointing to the National Treasure 10 minute snippet of the film.
I kept downloading it to watch and found I had to close it before watching for various real life reasons, but finally today I got round to watching it. Oh dear. I just wasted 10 minutes of my life…excluding download time.
I can’t believe how contrived the script appears, even in the short space of 10 minutes. I pray that they edited lots of exciting bits together to make this short teaser, but I really don’t think they did.
The most astounding moment is when Benjamin Franklin Gates (doh!) played by Nicolas Cage, delivers his breath free deduction of the next clue in the discovery of the treasure.
Why in the hell he didn’t pick up on the last, and most obvious clue, first I didn’t understand, and the leaps in logic were astounding. Plus it’s just got such an overly fast pace, I felt the story was flying by and not giving me a chance to react.
Okay, 10 minutes isn’t enough to go on, and it could be cut together for the teaser. Take a look at the 10 minute opener and see what you think. (Note that the link is direct to the streaming quicktime, and being 10 minutes is quite large.)
