Quickie

Rating: 5/10 (29 June 2020)

National treasure is not a good movie but it is a guilty pleasure of mine. Starting with the positives the cinematography was fine, it had its moments and I like the concept despite it being done on many occasions. There is one sequence that I genuinely thought was great during the second act of the film but it was definitely not enough to save it. Now, the acting was bad, sometimes laughable. The Casting is also terrible, especially for Nicolas Cage he does not suit this role well. Technically National Treasure is bad, some of the editing chooses are just stupid, the sound design is just dumb and some of the sound effects used are extremely annoying, the music is also annoying and played loudly in the worst possible moments, it's not even a good score. However my biggest problem with the film is Nicolas cage's sidekick character Riley, played by Justin Bartha, he is so annoying and unfunny and ruins the pacing of the film during the 1st and 2nd act. The people making the film decided its absolutely nessasary to have him react to literally everything that happens, this can take up to a minute and completely take you out of whatever is happening to our main characters.
Even though I know National Treasure is not good by any means I still enjoy it enough each time I see it. I would not recommend it to a critical film viewer like myself but if your looking for a enjoyable experience that you don't need to think about its decent.