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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 2839896" data-attributes="member: 508">I haven't read the book, and wasn't particularly anxious to go see the movie, but my wife wanted to see it (she's read the book twice), and since she asks to go see so few movies, we went.  It was okay, but I felt my 2 hours and 40 minutes could have been better spent doing something else.My big problems with the movie were [SPOILER]some rather predictable "plot twists" (I knew Magneto's butler was up to no good from the first I spotted him, for instance, and that the French chick was the direct descendant they were all looking for) and a completely unbelievable start: the French chick's grandfather gets shot by the albino monk, and has the presence of mind - not to mention the time - to figure out several anagrams in his head, write them all out so they only fluoresce under ultraviolet light, leave clues at several different paintings, scramble up the Fibonacci sequence combo to the bank vault, strip himself naked, paint a circle on the floor and a pentagram on his chest in his own blood, and only then allow himself to die.  All of that would probably have taken me several hours to figure out and implement, even without the bullet hole in my torso!  (I guess he must have put all of his points into Constitution - but then how was his Intelligence high enough to figure out all those anagrams in his head while dying?  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />)I also didn't like all the times we see some conspirator or other talking to somebody on the phone and have no idea who they're talking to.  Yeah, I know they wanted to keep the suspense, but I found it nearly impossible to keep track of the various factions and what was going on.  It also seemed like the identity of "the Teacher" was not only contrived, but decided upon right then at that time in the film, just so it would be a surprise - I'm still not convinced of the Teacher's motivations, and they seem to contradict his earlier behavior in the film.[/SPOILER]All in all, I think I liked National Treasure much better, despite generally preferring Tom Hanks over Nicholas Cage.Johnathan</blockquote>

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