2008 Directed by Steven Spielberg
Set during the Cold War, the Soviets – led by sword-wielding Irina Spalko – are in search of a crystal skull which has supernatural powers related to a mystical Lost City of Gold. After being captured and then escaping from them, Indy is coerced to head to Peru at the behest of a young man whose friend – and Indy's colleague – Professor Oxley has been captured for his knowledge of the skull's whereabouts.
Harrison Ford Cate Blanchett Shia LaBeouf Ray Winstone Karen Allen John Hurt Jim Broadbent Andrew Divoff Igor Jijikine Pavel Lychnikoff Alan Dale Ernie Reyes, Jr. Dimitri Diatchenko Ilia Volok Emmanuel Todorov Venya Manzyuk Joel Stoffer Neil Flynn V.J. Foster Chet Hanks Brian Knutson Dean Grimes Sasha Spielberg Nicole Luther Sophia Stewart Chris Todd Dennis Nusbaum T. Ryan Mooney Audi Resendez Show All…
Fuck yes.
I love it. All of it. From the classical opening giving way to a rollicking rock 'n' roll tune, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is something different than fan-service for disgruntled internet complainers. It is a luscious tribute to 50s B-movies and the pulpy comics that inspired them, embracing every glorious quip and every moment of flowering insanity in order to liven the Indiana Jones universe into an old-fashioned burst of blockbuster entertainment.
Crystal Skull reminds me of a time when summer popcorn extravaganzas were directed, focusing on the story at hand rather than worrying about the studio's five-year plan of world domination. Steven Spielberg revels in every silly and goofy quirk in George…
Gripping drama about a dementing geriatric Archeologist who thinks he's having an adventure while in reality he's being spoon fed porridge.
Pros: Harrison Ford, and a few entertaining scenes, thanks to Mr. Ford... Seriously, just Harrison Ford back as Indiana Jones and still acting the part to near perfection is enough for me to still enjoy some of the movie and give an above average rating. Didn't mind Cate Blanchett or Ray Winstone either.. I actually liked the idea of making the Communists the new Nazis.
Cons: Mutt Williams, the mcguffin and the whole alien theme of the movie, nuke the fridge, the overuse of CGI and basicly everything else more or less. I didn't care for the alien theme, it just doesn't belong in an Indiana Jones movie in my oppinion. Every other mcguffin has had some sort of religious…
You may have heard that there’s a scene in Steven Spielberg’s Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull in which the cinema’s most iconic archaeologist survives an atomic blast by hiding inside of a lead refrigerator. The incident occurs about 20 minutes into the grizzled whip-cracker’s fourth feature-length adventure—widely considered to be the series’ best (note to self: fact-check this later)—and it follows a scene in which a small squadron of Russian soldiers infiltrated Area 51, unveiled an alien corpse, and got derailed by an arthritic part-time college professor who’s so bad at his job that . . . well, these were supposed to be his office hours. So it’s safe to say that, even before the scene in question, Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, like the earlier films in its series, doesn’t feel particularly beholden to realism.
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Tired: Indy outrunning a boulder.
Wired: Indy surviving a nuclear blast via refrigerator.
spielberg's classicism v lucas' retrofuturism: dawn of justice. a wild union of 30s serials, 50s b-movies and the 2000s blockbuster.
Whilst the original Indiana Jones trilogy is a cinematic masterpiece, this long-awaited fourth installment is a decent action film but nothing more. I can see why some people hate this film, with the trilogy being so loved and this comparatively underwhelming.
I think many had there concerns about Harrison Ford returning to the role after so many years but he's still great in the part. Whilst it remains weird to have an older hero, the aging just adds a world-weariness which feels appropriate to the character. I can't help but think though that if Indy had been continually having adventures between The Last Crusade and here he would virtually be crippled by now.
There's an attempt to replicate the father/son…
I like it. It’s lacking something that the other 3 have that I can’t quite put my finger on.
My weirdest complaint about it is that it has too many named actors.
This really isn't quite as bad as legend might dictate. Although this amount of CGI has NO place in an Indy film! Blanchett is a fun addition, LaBeouf isn't completely terrible (it's a poorly written part) and Ford drifts through in an enjoyably grumpy way.
The fourth film of the series, once again directed by Steven Spielberg, sees Harrison Ford reprises his role as Indiana Jones once again, and this time he is back in action to save an old friend and thwart a Soviet plot.
This may look a good film on paper, but the result on screen is the complete opposite of this.
It's the peak of the Cold War, and well-known archaeologist Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford), coming back from his latest journey, learns that his job at Marshall College is in turmoil. He meets Mutt (Shia LaBeouf), a young man who wants Indiana to support him find the legendary Crystal Skull of Akator, and the two head off for Peru.
However, fatal…
I thought I may as well see the latest one as I have done the original trilogy in the space of 24 hours.
I actually quite liked this one and would put this over the other two sequels.
Who doesn’t love Ray Winstone!!
Not as bad as I remembered it and Shit the Beef was surprisingly tolerable but totally derails in the last 15 minutes.
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