Ridiculous

Rating: 3/10 (15 January 2005)

I'm just gonna go straight to the point. The story is this movie's biggest fault. If you're an American, you'll probably find it entertaining and maybe even good. But as a European you can only laugh. Not only are the British painted out as the big, evil 'entity' with world-domination on its agenda, but the story steals perhaps one of France's most legendary figures too. That's really what this is: a movie trying to connect the thousands of years of history of Europe to the young United States of America. It doesn't hold up.
If you have read Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code, you'll recognize the story as well. Kinda of a rip-off actually. Same treasure, a lot of clues at famous places, mean guys wants it for themselves, etc. And that's another weak point of National Treasure's story, the treasure is boring. It's just a big pile of money! Big deal. Had it been the Holy Grail or some world-changing information that someone didn't want to get out, or keep for themselves, that could've made a captivating motive. National Treasure is just a tour of historic places and objects in USA, with even more (although stolen) history added to it. Boring and most of all ridiculous.