Surprising

Rating: 7/10 (6 February 2005)

When I first saw the trailer for National Treasure, I thought "wow, that looks awesome." Then later on, my brother was watching Nickelodeon and it was advertised on there, and then I discovered it was made by Disney. I used to have no problem with Disney, but their past efforts have been rather lame. When it was first released, people in my school were saying how good it was. I decided to go see it. When I saw it, I was amazed at how good it was. In some ways it's like The Da Vinci Code. There are plenty of historical messages on everyday items that we use. The cast is excellent. The stars include Nicholas Cage, Diane Kruger, Sean Bean, and Jon Voit. The cast really helps the movie move along. For all of you teens out there who think this will be lame because it's only rated PG and is made by Disney, it isn't that way at all. It is family friendly, but there is enough action to make it seem like a PG-13 movie. This is also similar to Indiana Jones with the narrow escapes and car chases. Jerry Bruckheimer proves that even after some bad movies he has done, he can still do good movies like he once did. National Treasure is a solid effort and is definitely worth seeing.