National Education

Rating: 6/10 (28 June 2005)

Now let's see....get a great cast of actors together, throw them into a treasure hunt scenario and you'd think you were on to a winner.
But somehow NT fails to deliver. There are some good acting moments, great effects and sets. But the story gets bogged down with excessive and pointless exposition of American history. Likewise, after the first half hour the "hunt" drags on from one clue to another interminably. I actually struggled to stay awake during this section of the movie and had to be prodded to stop me from snoring on more than one occasion.
The film would seem better suited to getting kids interested in history than in being an action movie. Not that it is bad. Just that it doesn't really grab you and make you sit up and watch.
It's a shame really. Would have been nice to see a successor to the Indiana Jones movies emerge. But this ain't so much Indiana Jones as Indiana Yawns.