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17/12/2004: "Kruger and Cage in Taipei this week."
Promoting the dud flick National Treasure in a 48 hour visit were the above pair and the retinue of 25 including producer Jerry Bruckheimer, booked into a Taipei hotel (at AUD$20,000 per night).
NY Times movie reviewer STEPHEN HOLDEN wrote:
National Treasure is for Nicholas Cage a low point in a cunningly managed career that seesaws between serious screen acting (Leaving Las Vegas, Adaption) and schlock.
Looking like a mangy hound dog with patches of hair missing, (he) can't even muster a half-smile or a raised eyebrow, wears the numbed expression of a lazy star who can't be bothered to find the character inside his role.
If National Treasure mattered at all, you must call it a national disgrace, but this piece of flotsam is so inconsequential that it amounts to little more than a piece of Hollywood accounting.
