Good but historically inaccurate

Rating: Null/10 (20 November 2004)

I wondered if I was the only one to notice the glaring historical inaccuracy in the film National Treasure. The references to the Masonic Order seem to be accurate, but the movie identified Charles Carroll as a Mason. The last surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence was Charles Carroll of Carrollton. He was a Roman Catholic and was not among the 9 members of the Masons who signed the Declaration. Very few people at that time would have been members of both the Masonic Order and the Roman Catholic Church. Charles Carroll of Carrollton, whose cousin John Carroll was the first Roman Catholic Archbishop in the United States, was not overtly a Mason and it is very unlikely that he was one secretly. Other than this, I found the move entertaining and enjoyable.