One of the best movies I've ever seen. I don't care what anyone says, this is what peak treasure hunting movie looks like.

The film mixes fact with fiction on the subject of The Declaration of Independence. It does no service to history and little service toward making a good movie. But then again, "making a good movie" was an idea that went down the tubes when Cage used invisible ink to sign his movie contract.

National Treasure was pretty good!!!

Adventure, History, Action, this movie is definitely a must watch for families and fans of history.

As others have said, definitely a guilty pleasure that I just love to watch when its a rainy day. Yes, it may be a little bit rough around the edges here and there, and there may be some historical inaccuracies etc where one can imagine that these puzzles and places wouldn't exist in reality. Or... could they? If we've never seen them, how can we prove otherwise? Dun, dun, duuuuuun 0_0 Anyway moving on... the story is one of those stories that you really want to believe is real. Is true. I'm sure we've all had those before. Every time they make a discovery or solve a puzzle, it puts me on the edge of my seat. Thinking, "yes!" Borderline might even make you feel emotional. Be ready for a rollercoaster. Oh, and Nicolas Cage. Need I say more.

I really love the movie, and it had moments that make me chuckle. It's not too scary or violent and is great to watch with kids. Historical inaccuracies are present but it's not meant to be historical fiction but an action movie so it doesn't really bother me. Love watching this!

One of our faves. Must watch every few months. Forget "guilty pleasure" - it's just a pure all out pleasure! Scene after scene of good memorable fun and excitement. I don't pay much attention to critics any more.

Fun, apolitical movie covering some history and a load of fiction. Watch it probably 3 times a year, at least for the background noise and ability to focus in and out of it without missing anything.

Finally, it's a good thrill/action movie with a great performance of Nicolas Cage

I don’t know what the heck movie the critics watched because National Treasure is a great movie. My kids and I watch it every New Years Day!

So imagine injecting so much dopamine into your body that you actually die and transcend into a higher dimension to meet Jesus. That’s basically the experience you get when watching this film.

Everyone needs to see this one movie where Nicholas Cage actually does good acting as he solves the puzzle to find Ben Franklin’s Treasure hoard. He teams up with his version of Benji Dunn and with his version of Ilsa Faust. And most exciting part of all Sean Bean doesn’t die at the end.

Great movie with a fictional twist mixed with true history!

Absolutely terrible. Such a waste of time.

Once upon a time, back when Nicolas Cage could actually 'sell' a big budget movie, some clever producer at Disney came up with a script for 'Indiana Jones' mixed with 'Ocean's Eleven.' Then someone else added a dash of 'True Lies' and then wrapped it up in 'The Da Vinci Code,' before the man in charge of the money mentioned that whatever this Frankenstein's monster of a film had to be fit for all the family... and promptly gave it a PG rating. What once might have been a good idea with a major star somehow became something that was less than the multitude of all its inspirations. And that's a shame, because I think - once upon a time - there was a good film in here trying to get out. It opens with a young boy (later we discover is Nicolas Cage) being told by his grandfather about an artefact in US history that has been long forgotten and only accessible via certain clues left by their forefathers. And tell the boy he does. This opening scene goes on for about ten minutes (it felt like more) and is basically one long exposition dump setting up what the characters will later be looking for. When it finally ends, we join Cage and his team in the arctic (or a studio in California that has a freezer in it). They all find something and spend the next ten minutes adding more exposition as to how they will eventually use this new information to track it down. I get the feeling that at this stage the producers realised that what they were making was a little 'talk heavy' and figured they better blow something up in order to wake the audience up (hopefully not literally). Cue an action scene and a reminder to all American adventurers never to include a Brit among your party as Sean Bean decides it's time to pull off an early double-cross and - guess what - the film's villain is revealed to us all. National Treasure' is not a short film. It's close to two hours of more of the same. The characters are never really given any time to develop. Diane Kruger is the (tragically so) generic 'love interest' for Cage. There's a younger guy who I never got his on screen name and can't be bothered to look up the actor's name - he's the comic relief. As I mentioned, Sean Bean is the villain because... er, he's British. That appears to be his only real motivation for wanting to get ancient relics before Cage (or Indiana Jones, I guess). Expect more generic action, more generic characters and a hell of a lot more generic exposition. Cage does his best with the script that he's given and, although he's never afforded the luxury of going 'the full Cage' (fans of his will know what that means), he does his best with what he's given. But he's not given much. There's no real chemistry between him and anyone else. And that's not their fault either. No matter how good any of the actors are, they just look bored - Sean Bean especially! I know a film doesn't have to be completely be original to be good. In fact, pretty much everything's been done now in terms of story-telling, so we're used to things being repackaged and churned out, just in a slightly different way that now makes them - at least appear - watchable. However, 'National Treasure's' biggest problem is that it just doesn't know what it wants to be. The obvious genre would be 'adventure' (ala 'Indiana Jones'), but then it veers off to some sort of comic spy movie like 'True Lies,' before quickly trying to pull off a heist like 'Ocean's Eleven.' I know many good films that have combined genres and worked; in fact... most do! However, this is an example of a film exceeding its reach and trying to be too many things at once and not having a - true - target audience in mind and ending up appealing to very few. I wonder how well it did in America, compared to the rest of the world. To quote (the far superior) 'Team America: World Police' it is pretty 'America! F*%k yeah!' all the way through. Perhaps this is a 'national treasure' to the good citizens of the US of A, whereas out here in that small part of the world known as 'everywhere else,' it all feels a little overblown and self-indulgent to be the classic it could have been.

I enjoyed this movie as a kid, and I still do to this day, from time to time

Favorite movie of all time, very quotable!

A solid entertainer.

THE BEST MOVIE EVER. if u love history and treasure hunters this movie is for u. don’t be a hater and give nicholas cage a chance. he does amazing in this movie truly one of the best performances of this generation. this movie defined me as an adult and i hope others will welcome this movie with an open mind and heart. it’s not just ur regular disney shimsey movie. this movie made me feel like i could be a treasure hunter, it’s what inspired me to be a history major in college. truly is my favorite movie ever. it should’ve won an oscar. thank you disney for this masterpiece

What a sunday movie! Love it!