Where are the Aliens in the story???

Rating: 6/10 (6 January 2005)

There are two ways to see this movie. You can see this as a true or possible story (and I'm sure that many people do) and believe everything that is said in this movie. There are people who believe in UFO's as well, so why not believing that there is an unsee-able treasure map on the back of the Declaration of Independence, leading to a hidden treasure that was gathered by the Romans and the order of the Templers and that has been taken to America by the Free Macons and the founding fathers of the USA.The other option is to see it as an adventure movie like Indiana Jones. Than this movie isn't all that bad, even quite entertaining.
However, from time to time it annoyed me enormously that Ben Gates (Nicholas Cage) always seemed to be able to solve the most difficult riddles without too much problems (It was like if he was some computer who just needed to scan all the information and than could give the outcome without too much hesitation), that he always seemed to be able to survive the most life threatening situations without too much problems,... that he was some kind of superman. Too often I thought: YEAH RIGHT, what's next: aliens have written it all down and it isn't just a treasure map, but also a star map which may be helpful to find their planet???
Yes it is true, perhaps I'm a bit too critical. I'm sure many people will have a great time watching it and I'm not saying that I didn't have a good time either. It just was a bit too far-fetched to be really good. Now I can only give it a 6/10