Review: National Treasure
National Treasure is a national disgrace.
First of all, Nick Cage is neither an action hero nor suave. Whenever he tries to play above his IQ, things go badly. He struggled just to spit out the lines in this turkey so forget about saying them in a convincing manner. It seems doubtful he understood all of the words the writer put together for him. I think some of his lines might have been interesting but Cage just destroys them.
Nick, please, just stop, OK? You've got enough dough socked away. Please retire to Italy.
This is on top of a production that would embarass Saturday morning cartoons. The whole thing is a bad copy of Indiana Jones. It's too bad, since the premise of having to steal the Declaration of Independence holds so many possibilities. And yet, this is what the writer and producer decided on. Come on, Jerry, it didn't have to be this way.