Goes to the point where it's offensively unrealistic.

Rating: Null/10 (11 December 2014)

Adventure. Fantasy. Imagination. Too bad "National Treasure," a film with Hollywood scum written all over it, decides to fool audiences in a making a ridiculous action film with perhaps a blend of all the terms I started off with in my review. Whats wrong wit those three words you might ask? Absolutely nothing. The trouble arises when you have an untalented director throwing every action movie cliché at you that you can see from China. Nicholas Cage stars as (for many, the four previous words outside of parentheses might have already scared you from seeing the film) Benjamin Franklin Gates. Despite one of the stupidest movie character names in history, Gates descends from a family of treasure-seekers who've all hunted for the same thing: a war chest hidden by the Founding Fathers after the Revolutionary War. Ben's close to discovering its whereabouts, as is his competition, but the FBI is also hip to the hunt. The conflict in this film is so unexplored and uneventful that I felt bored throughout. We never end up knowing anything important about the key elements the multiple writers may or may not have intended us to know. And yes, we have to sit through numerous history lessons about this sought after piece of treasure. This story is like something you'd find at a library full of appreciated stories for pre-teens. Jon Turteltaub (speaking of stupid names) directs the film with an glittering sign of stupidity. Instead of allowing this ridiculous story to be fun, he makes every actor pitch their brainless dialogue in scenes revolving around soap-opera like scenarios. At times, I forgot what the plot was about due to the dull chemistry between this poor cast. To see Boromir from "The Lord of the Rings" play the bad guy is very disappointing. Cage, on the other hand, rallies up another title on his list of "the worst movies of all time that happened to be staring me."