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Generally favorable reviews- based on 162 Ratings

  • Starring: Diane Kruger, Justin Bartha, Nicolas Cage, Sean Bean
  • Summary: Nicholas Cage stars as the brilliant treasure hunter Benjamin Franklin Gates in who discovers a secret from our nation's past that will lead to the greatest adventure in history. (Disney)
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 35
  2. Negative: 13 out of 35
  1. Overall the film is alluringly over-the-top without being overcooked.
  2. If you're going to tell a wildly implausible tale of fortune hunting and unlikely heroes, you could do worse than National Treasure.
  3. 50
    National Treasure is so silly that the Monty Python version could use the same screenplay, line for line.
  4. If the Founding Fathers had known National Treasure would be the result of their efforts to forge a new nation, they might have reached for the Wite-Out.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 81 out of 103
  2. Negative: 18 out of 103
  1. Gorg
    10
    Fantastic movie. Screw the critics.
  2. 8
    I am really not quite sure why all the critics were being little bi*tches about this movie. I hate Cage, but the film was fun and adventurous. It was nice to watch all the history within in, even though it isn't accurate. Good music too. Expand
  3. Definitely not as bad as the critics make it out to be, but National Treasure's storyline is very preposterous. The acting is O.K., and I'd say so is the movie. The history is terrible, however. Expand
  4. ScottB.
    0
    The worst movie script I have ever seen, surpassing even Star Wars Episode III, and that's saying alot.

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