No 'treasure' here. - National Treasure Reviews

Well, this film was recommended to me by several co-workers, so I figured...'What the heck.' What the heck was right! Total waste of two hours time and seven dollars, fifty cents of my hard earned money! Disney would have you believe that the Masons originated from The Knights Templar, who were supposed to have unearthed a massive treasure in the Middle East during the First Crusades. The Masons and the Templars are two individual societies, neither of whom have very good past reputations if one bothers to research actual history and not the sugar coated politically correct variation that Hollywood passes off as 'the 100% truth' in order to sell more tickets at the box office. Disney further stretches the credibility gap by implying that somehow, the Founding Fathers and their Masonic cohorts were able to transport all this treasure to America, during the height of a war with Great Britain, and hide it in a catacomb beneath a church on what is now modern day Wall Street. And taking a tired old cliche right out of practically every other treasure hunt movie, Disney reveals that... *GASP!* the key to the location of the treasure is hidden in a secret cryptographic message on the back of the Declaration Of Independance! Didn't a similiar scenario get used in 'Raiders Of Lost Ark' with the whole ancient medallion and staff pinpointing the Ark's location on a scale model of some ancient city? Hmmm, I thought as such! Futhermore, the pace of this film was so plodding and so predictable, that I very nearly fell asleep several times in the course of the two hours the movie ran. The only thing keeping me awake was the large Mt. Dew that I had to shell out an extra $3.65 for at the concession stand before the movie started. Basically, I found this movie to be Disney's blatant attempt to glorify Masons and pass them off as being "not so bad of guys after all" to the masses. The repeated visual references to the Masons throughout the movie made that perfectly clear. *i.e- the zoom-in shot to display the Masonic ring on the right hand of the senior FBI agent during the final scenes of the film.* Bottom line...NOT WORTH THE MONEY! Go read a book, search the Internet and educate yourself with the real truth behind our country's founding and the influence of secret societies upon our nation since then. To borrow a line from the 'Matrix'.... FREE YOUR MIND!