This REALLY is a great movie

Rating: 10/10 (8 January 2013)

I think most other reviewers here are looking for violent action or some sort of arty commentary. National Treasure is neither of course. Instead, it is a fun, smart, classy movie for folks (not just families) who understand this is a caper movie about fantasy, a celebration of smarts and passion for a cause, and, great camaraderie.
In this movie smart people get to, awkwardly, do cool things. Claim to the FBI and the Director of National Archives that there's an invisible map on the back of the Declaration of Independence. Try and steal a national document for supposedly justifiable reasons. This is fun stuff, and you want them to succeed, no matter how unrealistic. Perhaps it's a fun movie only for us awkward, bookish ones, not the tough, Rambo would-be's. Perhaps that's the source of the two types of reviews of this movie . .
That's what it is and for that it's a 10/10.
And the dozens of wry side comments are incredibly infectious and repeatable. Ben: It's not a conspiracy theory! Riley: Per se.