National Treasure
Buena Vista Pictures | Release Date: November 19, 2004 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
40
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 36 Critic Reviews
Positive:
8
Mixed:
15
Negative:
13
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
38
USA TodayMike Clark
Ten minutes into the picture, you're searching the screen for life-support machines. Read full review
38
New York PostLou Lumenick
Sort of "The Da Vinci Code for Dummies." Read full review
38
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
National Treasure's storyline isn't compelling or coherent enough to warrant the term "plot." Read full review
38
PremiereAaron Hillis
For his fourth paycheck-cashing run through “J-Bruck’s” action-hero gauntlet, Cage lazily plays Benjamin Franklin Gates-the first of many overstuffed social-studies references. Read full review
37
New York Daily NewsJami Bernard
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. Read full review
30
The A.V. ClubNathan Rabin
It lacks the conviction to embrace its own garish awfulness, resulting in little more than tedious historical and patriotic hokum, a preposterous potboiler done in by slack pacing and pedestrian execution. Read full review
30
Washington PostMichael O'Sullivan
Rated PG, which must stand for "particularly gullible," it's "Raiders of the Lost Ark" for people who slept through American history class. Read full review
25
Rolling StonePeter Travers
It's not just hard to believe any of this, it's impossible. And director Jon Turteltaub (Phenomenom) directs with robotic cheerlessness. Read full review
20
The New York TimesStephen Holden
If National Treasure mattered at all, you might call it a national disgrace, but this piece of flotsam is so inconsequential that it amounts to little more than a piece of Hollywood accounting. Read full review
20
Film ThreatPete Vonder Haar
Has almost nothing to recommend it. Read full review
20
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
Absurdism taken to a new extreme. Read full review
20
Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
Disney's National Treasure is supposed to be family-friendly, a PG-rated action adventure free of hard violence and bad language. That's admirable, to be sure, but with a friend like this a family doesn't need sleeping pills.
10
Dallas ObserverRobert Wilonsky
Isn't any fun at all, which is ultimately the most damning thing you can say about a Bruckheimer movie. Read full review
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