Disappointing...

Rating: 4/10 (12 January 2006)

National Treasure is counterfeit treasure. Everything in this movie is all so coincidental. I mean, yeah of course the treasure is located 'secretly' down in some church cave hardly deep down enough. Then Nicholas Cage solves a secret passage on a door just behind where all it's hidden. That just shows that the treasure must be located near Benjamin's location, so that the film makers don't have to travel somewhere far away and unexpected to bury the treasure. And like, they call this an adventure?! I'd say that this was more of a drama and comedy than an adventure or action. It seems as if Cage had hardly any trouble finding the treasure in the end. He matches the secret riddles and ancient problems on the Declaration of Independence map so 'perfectly' and then finding some weird-looking relics in a brick building. There would've been plenty of mistakes that would last weeks and months finding the treasure if this situation was happening in real life. And yet Benjamin only finds it in only a few days? Do you possibly think that Benjamin Franklin Jr is a code-hacking genius? And in the very last scene where Diane Kruger tells Cage that there is a secret treasure hidden in their new house? Do you expect that that is going to turn out exciting? I'm not curious at all. And I don't care. I even didn't want to see this in the first place, but my school saw it free, so luckily I didn't waste $9 on this junk. I even wasted almost two hours watching this! My rating: 4/10