i watch this movie last night on one of the pay per view channel and and while watch it i quickly wonder why i bother . in all honesty i really do expect something more from this film . maybe something along the line of conspiracy theory . why . maybe because of the casting . i mean and nicolas cage and harvey keitel and after all . not to mention jon voight and christopher plummer . now i be wonder and why do they bother . but instead of an absorb action cum mystery drama i be catch up in a pastiche of breakneck silliness a là the goony and which to my great surprise appear to have garner some actual critical praise . perhaps it because the goony be clearly target toward the pre teen and teen audience . whereas national treasure and judging from the preview and be seriously intend to appeal to an adult audience . suspension of disbelief be one thing . it how one can enjoy sci fi and horror . but i find myself actually resist the heap tablespoon of paranoid and conspiracy laden tripe be shove at the audience . oh and the screenwriter throw around all the jargon intend to evoke a sense of serious engage wonderment . wow . the mason . the knight templar . you know and this could really be true . i think the writer really lose me when gate say the found father hide the treasure to keep it out of the hand of the british . and just be do the knight templar come from . new jersey . oh and i forget . from france . which go a long way to explain how it end up in philadelphia during the revolution . it be bring there by agent of napoleon . anyway and you see what i be get at . the premise of the movie be interesting . and i really do think it could have succeed a a serious mystery drama . but it just come off a another kid flick in grow up clothing . in the end i think it ask the audience not simply to suspend belief but to render itself willfully ignorant to an insulting degree . i have just finish watch several item by werner herzog and istvan szabo . it a shock to switch from fine din to hollywood big mac and fry . okay and okay . if you pant over chase and explosion and and gee whiz gimmickry you will enjoy national treasure . but it the sort of movie and well and have you ever stand outside a cinema wait to get in while the previous audience come out . and all the young kid be talk excitedly among themselves and say thing like and wow . do you see how that thing blow up . that be so cool . national treasure be that kind of movie .