National Treasure: Edge of History

2022 - 12 - 14

'National Treasure: Edge of History' adds a young-adult chapter to ... (CNN)

Nicolas Cage starred in the 2004 movie and its sequel, a sort of discount “Raiders of the Lost Ark.” The baton here passes to Lisette Olivera as Jess, a whip- ...

[“Wednesday”](https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/22/entertainment/wednesday-review/index.html) as the evil antiquities dealer who is hot on her tail. The opening episodes have their moments, but it’s less something to treasure than at best mildly enjoy. [Dreamer](https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/27/us/documented-dreamers/index.html) whose father, a protector of treasures, disappeared when she was a baby.

'National Treasure: Edge of History' Sags Under the Weight of the ... (Variety)

For all the choreographed mayhem, cheeky ahistoricity, and gross mishandling of antiquities, the beloved 2004 film and its 2007 sequel are fundamentally in awe ...

Zeta-Jones is the best thing about “Edge of History” because she, like Cage before her, is all too happy to push her performance to 11. “Edge of History” also feels like self-parody, but a far less fun variety born of a futile effort to look forward and backward simultaneously. “Edge of History” is two halves of a show poorly welded together. To earn that, “Edge of History” has to repeatedly foreground legacy characters that never manage to integrate fully into the show around them. The joy of Disney’s “National Treasure” franchise lies in its precise balance of reverence and irreverence. With the increasingly narrow odds of a film to complete a trilogy, the only way to save “National Treasure” from becoming a dusty relic itself was to detonate it and build something new from the ruins.

Stream It Or Skip It: 'National Treasure: Edge Of History' On Disney+ ... (Decider)

Lisette Olivera, Zuri Reed, Justin Bartha and Catherine Zeta-Jones star in this sequel to the hit move franchise.

In the first episode, it also feels like Jess isn’t necessarily solving puzzles but taking advantage of a whole lot of favorable coincidences and fortuitous Google searches. National Treasure: Edge Of History is an extension of the National Treasure movie franchise, via Keitel’s character and a later appearance by Justin Bartha as Riley Poole. In the meantime, wealthy treasure plunderer Billie Pearce (Catherine Zeta-Jones) wants what Sadusky has, and has two of her thugs pretend to be FBI agents and go to the storage unit. He sees the pendant on her neck and thinks that she’s one of the treasure hunters that got the Aztec relic. The next day, Sadusky dies, and when Jessie and Tasha try to give the note to Liam, he wants nothing to do with it. The treasure hunter dies trying to fend off intruders, and Jessica’s mom vows that her daughter will never be a common thief, which is what she thinks her now-dead husband is.

National Treasure: Edge of History review: Best to leave it lost (The Spool)

A chance encounter with National Treasure franchise fixture Peter Sadusky (Harvey Keitel) sends our hero down a rabbit hole. It's one that forces her to violate ...

In front of the camera, Olivera has flashes of charm in her lead performance, but opportunities to flourish are limited. The primary character trait of Rivers is that she’s a YouTuber. All the various sarcastic, pop culture-laden quips quickly blur into one another, robbing these new individuals of a chance to make a name for themselves. In particular, focusing the show on an American immigrant provides a unique perspective on what’s historically and globally “important” compared to Ben Gates and company’s almost uniformly white, natural-born citizenry. The first two episodes come off as a bunch of middle-aged writers trying to figure out how 2016 teenagers talk. Shifting the focus of the National Treasure franchise onto younger characters is in the mold of other past TV spin-offs and modern “legacy sequel” properties like Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Despite the state of her housing, the eagle-eyed American history expert isn’t in a great place. That means we still get that TV series, National Treasure: Edge of History, but now it is a streamer and stretches a film’s length of plot over a season’s worth of television. It’s one that forces her to violate a pledge she made to her mother by embracing her father’s calling. Alas, National Treasure and its sequel, National Treasure: Book of Secrets, were made in the naughty aughties. Unfortunately, her mom has now passed as well, a year before the show opener. If the National Treasure movies had existed in the ’80s, Disney totally would’ve made a TV show spin-off in the ’90s.

National Treasure: Edge of History (Plugged In)

Still, not every secret has been spilled. Take that fantastic treasure trove hidden by ancient Mesoamerican women back around the time of Cortez. What fantastic ...

Jess and Tasha lie to a bus driver to make a quick escape. He’s written for a number of other publications, too, including Time, The Washington Post and Christianity Today. (He asks for Mary’s forgiveness as he presses a secret button somewhere around the statue.) Bad guys barge in and he fights with them, knocking them down with a chain (used to swing incense, presumably) and flees the scene. Later, the two go to a bar to talk to a singer there: Tasha encourages Jess to consider going out with the guy if the conversation takes that turn. When he spies Jess’s necklace—an amulet given to her by her father—Peter also secretly gives her a letter, and the first clue to a bigger mystery. Paul Asay has been part of the Plugged In staff since 2007, watching and reviewing roughly 15 quintillion movies and television shows. Instead of paying his back rent, he sends Jess and her friends on a fantastic, dangerous quest to track down the Incan/Aztec/Mayan treasure. And Edge of History seems to be following along the same dotted line. His name is Peter Sandusky, a retired FBI agent and former head of the local branch of the Freemasons. In a remarkable display of camaraderie (not to mention a dazzling manipulation of both time and distance), some important women from the Aztec, Mayan and Inca civilizations got together and squirreled away treasure untold. Back in the day—and we’re talking about 500 years back—a bunch of Spanish conquistadors strolled into the Americas and plundered it for pretty much all it was worth. Comically disguised as a nun, he finds a secret clue inside a church, hidden underneath a statue of the Virgin Mary.

New Cast Talks National Treasure: Edge Of History Season 1 (Screen Rant)

Screen Rant chats with Jordan Rodrigues, Antonio Cipriano, and Jake Austin Walker about where their characters are headed after the premiere.

He is constantly trying to prove that he is mature enough to be in a relationship with Tasha and also to help his friends with the hunt. Jess has a knack for solving puzzles, and her skills are put to the test as she and her friends follow a series of clues hidden in American artifacts and landmarks. He doesn't want to get in trouble, and he doesn't want Jess to get in trouble, especially. I think, at first, he joins Jess because he does see sort of a pursuit of reason in his life through the treasure and through both of them avenging the names of their fathers. Ethan and Liam share some parallels in the idea that Ethan wants to look after Jess and Liam already knows the dangers that come from it, but he's really in it for himself in the beginning, right? [National Treasure: Edge of History](https://screenrant.com/tag/national-treasure-tv-series/) are currently available to stream on Disney+ and are a must-watch for fans of the National Treasure movie franchise.