Fun but not excellent

Rating: 5/10 (7 February 2006)

'National Treasure' is an adventure film about a young man and son of a long lineage of masons who makes it his personal task to hunt down some treasure from the early days of the United States of America. In the process, several key symbols of American history are examined, including the Liberty Bell and the Declaration of Independence. The film is ultimately a history lesson with plenty of Indiana Jones-style adventure and a little bit of romance. There's also conflict between the characters as the villains who want to steal the treasure out of greed are hot on the tails of the heroes. It's action-packed, but it's really not a very deep film, and it does go quite quickly, but it has nothing completely wonderful about it. It's just a pretty good action film. Don't expect a wonderful film, but expect to be entertained for over an hour.