Indiana Jones – NOT
Well folks, after something like 20 years of waiting for a sequel that was talked about the last 10 of those, I have to unfortunately suggest strongly that you keep your $8.50 for something else. I don’t want to ruin the plot for anyone who is still going to spend the money, but please at the very least catch an afternoon screening and pay 2/3′s price.
Here are in my opinion a few things that are very wrong with the movie (and given the Ford, Lucas, & Spielberg team it is surprising to be so wrong):
- Just too much running around doing things with out really that much action. Historically Indiana Jones movies were action flicks that moved along with action well placed and a that sense of what is going to be next. Well, at least mostly, this one is closer to the 2nd one in the franchise on that score.
- Dialog was just seemingly forced, what of there was. Now some would argue what was I expecting, but I would point them back to the previous movies and contend that the dialog was crisp and witty at times. This one, what bit of that it tried to have just relied on references to lines back in the previous movies.
- The script was pretty lousy. Not trying to give too much away, but the previous movies, despite having a huge religious supernatural element still worked and didn’t require too much on most of our parts to willing suspend our disbelief in such things. This one was just so 1950′s B movie crap.
- The direction/acting was lousy. Not sure that was not more a problem with the script and just not having enough there to really let any characters come to life. What minor attempts were made (and there are very few) are just seemingly absurd.
- I have already mentioned willing suspension of disbelief, and I will even give you that a few scenes in the previous movies were hard to swallow at times. Maybe it because the rest of the episode being so crappy, but this flick just had way to many things going on it in that were just to far beyond the believable.
Well, I tried to say enough to discourage with-out spoiling if you still insist. If you want some more, I suggest a look at Kansas City Star reviews and comments, which mostly agree with my sentiments. To Lucas and Spielberg I suggest you put Indie to bed and perhaps consider going there yourselves if you can’t do better. To Ford, well we know you can still do better – suppose the temptation was just too much? Well, I for one am not going to be adding this one, my collection will remain the trilogy it should. This last one belongs in a museum (of bad crappy movies, in a cold dark wet place with lots of snakes).
[...] Good news here is that I have seen very little that I am interesting in seeing coming out soon, and Indiana Jones was, in my opinion, so bad as to turn me against movies for a [...]