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Forget ‘Indiana Jones,’ Nicolas Cage’s Adventure Hit Is a Streaming Smash on Hulu

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Nicolas Cage is never far away from a streaming hit. Recently, the Oscar-winner reprised his role of Ben Reilly — alongside the likes of Lamorne Morris, Li Jun Li, Karen Rodriguez, Abraham Popoola, Jack Huston, and Brendan Gleeson — in Prime Video’s perfect superhero replacement following the end of The Boys. Spider-Noir, a live-action series serving as a spin-off to the animated Spider-Verse films (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse), is a huge streaming hit, and Cage’s central performance is key to its success.

A pulse-racing adventure that blends visual style and mystery, Spider-Noir is the latest in a long line of movies to show off Cage’s enigmatic leading ability. Another example of this is Cage’s answer to the Indiana Jones franchise, the 2004 action-adventure National Treasure. As historian and code-breaker Benjamin Gates, Cage attempts to hunt down a prize hidden in America by the Founding Fathers. However, crime boss Ian Howe (Sean Bean) is on his tail after double-crossing Gates, leading to a furiously fast race for triumph.

Although National Treasure was a flop with critics, the movie earned much more praise from audiences, which helped it find box office success during a six-month run. Against a reported budget of $100 million, the film returned an impressive $331 million worldwide, split between a domestic haul of $173 million and a further $158 million from overseas markets. Over two decades later, National Treasure has returned to the streaming charts, ranking as one of the most-watched movies on Hulu in the U.S., at the time of writing.

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Which Action Hero Would Be
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Rambo · James Bond · Indiana Jones · John McClane · Ethan Hunt

Five legends. Five completely different ways of getting out alive — with style, with muscle, with charm, with luck, or with a plan so intricate it probably shouldn’t work. Ten questions will reveal which action hero was built to have your back.

🎖️Rambo

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🏺Indiana Jones

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🎭Ethan Hunt

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You’re dropped into a dangerous situation with no warning. What do you need most from a partner?
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You have to get somewhere dangerous, fast. How do you travel?
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You’re pinned down and outnumbered. What does your ideal partner do?
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The mission is paused. You have one evening to decompress. What does your partner suggest?
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Your enemy is powerful, well-resourced, and has the upper hand. How should your partner approach them?
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Things go badly wrong and you’re captured. What do you trust your partner to do?
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It’s the final moment. Everything is on the line. What do you need from your partner right now?
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Your answers have pointed to one action hero above all others. This is the person built to have your back — for better or considerably, spectacularly worse.

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Rambo

Your partner doesn’t talk much, doesn’t need to, and will have assessed every threat in your immediate environment before you’ve finished your first sentence. John Rambo is not a man of plans or politics — he is a force of nature shaped by survival, loyalty, and a capacity for endurance that goes beyond anything training can produce. He will not leave you behind. He has never left anyone behind who deserved to come home. What you get with Rambo is the most capable, most quietly ferocious partner imaginable — one who has been through things that would have broken anyone else, and who chose to keep going anyway. You’ll never need to ask if he has your back. You’ll just know.

James Bond

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Your partner will arrive perfectly dressed, perfectly briefed, and with a cover story so convincing it’ll take you a moment to remember what’s actually true. James Bond is the most professionally dangerous person in any room he enters — and the most disarmingly charming, which is the point. He operates in a world of layers, where nothing is what it appears and every advantage is used without apology. You’ll never be bored. You’ll occasionally be furious. But when it matters — when the mission is genuinely on the line and the margin for error has collapsed to nothing — Bond is exactly the partner you want. He has survived things that have no business being survivable. He does it with style. That is not nothing.

Indiana Jones

Your partner will know the history, the language, the cultural context, and exactly why the thing everyone else is ignoring is actually the most important thing in the room. Indiana Jones is brilliant, reckless, and occasionally impossible — but he is also one of the most resourceful, most genuinely knowledgeable partners you could find yourself beside. He approaches every situation with a scholar’s eye and a brawler’s instinct, which is an unusual combination and a remarkably effective one. He hates snakes and gets personally attached to objects of historical significance, both of which will slow you down at least once. It doesn’t matter. What Indy brings is irreplaceable — and the adventures you’ll have together will be the kind people write books about. Assuming you survive them.

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John McClane

Your partner was not supposed to be here. He does not have the right equipment, the right information, or anything approaching the right odds. He has a sarcastic remark and an absolute refusal to accept that the situation is as bad as it looks. John McClane is the greatest accidental hero in the history of action cinema — a man whose superpower is stubbornness, whose contingency plan is improvisation, and whose capacity to absorb punishment and keep moving would be alarming if it weren’t so useful. He will complain the entire time. He will make it significantly more chaotic than it needed to be. And he will absolutely, unconditionally, without question come through when it counts. Yippee-ki-yay.

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Ethan Hunt

Your partner has already run seventeen scenarios by the time you’ve finished reading the briefing, and the plan he’s settled on involves at least two things that should be physically impossible. Ethan Hunt operates at the absolute edge of human capability — technically, physically, and intellectually — and he brings the same relentless precision to protecting his partners that he brings to dismantling organisations that shouldn’t exist. He is not easy to know and he will never fully tell you everything. But he will carry the weight of the mission so completely, so absolutely, that your job is simply to trust him — and the remarkable thing is that trusting him always turns out to be the right call. The mission will be impossible. He will complete it anyway.

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Could Another ‘National Treasure’ Movie Be on the Way?

A 2007 sequel, National Treasure: Book of Secrets, followed the successful original, and rumors of a third installment have followed ever since. Cage himself might have cast doubts over the franchise’s future when he said “there is no National Treasure 3″ in 2024, but hope has arisen once more, with legendary producer Jerry Bruckheimer revealing that the threequel is “coming along quite well,” with the screenplay already underway, while attending the Producers’ Guild Awards earlier this year. An attempt to revive the franchise was made by Disney+ with the series National Treasure: Edge of History, but it was sadly canceled after its first season due to a negative response.

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National Treasure is streaming on Hulu. Stay tuned to Collider for more streaming stories.


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Release Date
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November 19, 2004

Runtime

131 minutes

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Director

Jon Turteltaub

Writers
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Cormac Wibberley, Jim Kouf, Marianne Wibberley, Charles Segars, Oren Aviv

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  • Diane Kruger

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