everything but nothing

Rating: 3/10 (2 January 2005)

Normally a movie from blockbuster giant Jerry Bruckheimer is fun to watch, great excitement and spectacular. Unfortunaly this one is not. It's just too much in too little time. If it had been a 13 episodes t.v. series it could have been good. But now it looks if the director put Indiana Jones 1, 2 and 3 altogether in just two hours. And thats the problem, its all going too fast and too easy. The 'hidden' clues are just simple to discover. Finding things that are missing for hundreds of years, is no problem at all. Even stealing the declaration of independence looks too simple. In mission impossible 1 the burglary was excitement, and Tom Cruise had a hard time in a well secured room. But in N.T. Gage just walks in. Because of the speed of the clues being discovered there is just not enough time for the movie to get a real thrill of excitement. You just know it will turned out good, and the clue will be solved. There are also a lot of question marks left. The good guys using all the clues trying to get the national treasure, and the bad guys don't have those clues, but as a wonder the are keeping up and appear at the same places as the good guys. And because of the speed and time of the movie, its just at the edge of how many clues you can handle. At the and you thinking one more clue and i've had it. Only the kids who have never seen anything of Indiana Jones, will be really excited and thrilled. The rest will think that Nicolas Gage is just working on a playground....