National Treasure: Blu-ray DVD Review (2008)

This ripe B-movie, now out on high-definition Blu-ray disc, stars Nicolas Cage as Benjamin Franklin Gates (insert groan here), whose family has been trying for generations to find the buried treasure of the Knights Templar.

Allegedly, on the back of the Declaration of Independence is an invisible map that offers a series of clues that will lead Cage and his assistants to a colossal bounty.

Complications and machinations abound, only a few of which--remarkably--deal with the actual theft of the declaration itself. The action in "Treasure" is passably entertaining and the movie doesn't take itself too seriously, but maybe it should have.

Nothing here is extraordinary and nothing matches what Spielberg created in the "Indiana Jones" movies, which "Treasure" tries to emulate in its own third-rate way.

Rated PG-13. Grade: C-