National Treasure gets more entertaining as the preposterousness rises.
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11/23/04
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National Treasure (2004)
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Reviews Counted:35
Fresh:11
Rotten:24
Average Rating:4.9/10
Consensus: National Treasure is no treasure, but it's a fun ride for those who can forgive its highly improbable plot.
Theatrical Release:Nov 19, 2004 Wide
Box Office: $172,975,674
Synopsis: A secret from our nation's past will lead to the greatest adventure in history. Producer Jerry Bruckheimer ("Pirates of the Caribbean,""The Rock," and "Armageddon") and director Jon Turteltaub... [More]
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Justin Bartha, Sean Bean, Diane Kruger
Director: Jon Turteltaub
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Reviews for National Treasure
Top CriticSo bad on so many levels.
11/22/04
Top CriticCage? Movie star as social studies teacher.
11/20/04
Top CriticTen minutes into the picture, you're searching the screen for life-support machines.
11/19/04
Top CriticThis infantile excuse for an adventure yarn plays more like a triple-cross between The DaVinci Code, CSI, and The Amazing Race than Raiders of the Lost Ark.
11/19/04
Top CriticSluggish for a Jerry Bruckheimer production, but maybe the kids will learn something.
11/19/04
Top CriticAs documents go, this one tastes like cardboard.
11/19/04
Top CriticThe best thing about National Treasure is how clever it is.
11/19/04
Top CriticCage plays Gates way too broadly and crudely; I half expected him to break into his patented Elvis impersonation.
11/19/04
Top CriticIt has no ambition, little sense and false sentiment, but it does have velocity, high spirits and scale.
11/19/04
Top CriticPeople run. Things blow up. Sometimes, just to add another layer of nuance, people run away as things blow up.
11/19/04
Top CriticInterminable and riddled with plot holes you could drive a humvee through.
11/19/04
Top CriticNicolas Cage usually brims with personality, but you wouldn't know it from this pedestrian ripoff of Raiders of the Lost Ark.
11/19/04
Top CriticA joyfully convoluted adventure yarn that moves lickety-split through clichés, plot holes and overall narrative mayhem until the whole unlikely rig screeches to a halt.
11/19/04
Top CriticNational Treasure is not so much a no-brainer as a brain-stunner, so audaciously ridiculous you are initially intrigued, then soon irritated by its incoherence.
11/19/04
Top CriticA formula-action exercise that's part Indiana Jones, part Da Vinci Code, part history trivia lesson and all bluster, Treasure proves quickly that it's fool's gold at best.
11/19/04
Top CriticIf you're looking for National Treasure to rewrite history, you're wasting your vote.
11/19/04
Top CriticNational Treasure falls a bit short both as a window into the American past and as crackling good adventure.
11/19/04
Top CriticLaudable, at times inventive.
11/19/04
Top CriticA bruising US history class, taught in Dolby Surround.
11/19/04
Top CriticLatest News for National Treasure
September 25, 2008:
Nic Cage Officially Hunting for More National Treasure 
To no one's surprise, Disney is officially moving forward with "National Treasure 3," as announced yesterday by Nicolas Cage, Jerry Bruckheimer, and studio executive Dick Cook. More...
December 20, 2007:
Box Office Guru Preview: Five New Films Fight For Holiday Cheer
Moviegoers are in for a feast as studios will unleash a wide menu of new options on Friday trying to reach holiday patrons on the weekend before Santa comes to town. With so... More...
December 17, 2007:
Talks Begin for National Treasure 3
National Treasure was never intended to be a franchise. When the first installment did well, the filmmakers started from scratch to come up with a sequel. This time, though,... More...
October 01, 2007:
National Treasure 2 Poster Online!
We've seen stills and a pair of trailers for National Treasure: Book of Secrets, due December 21. How's about a poster? More...
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