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.
Ya know not as bad as I remember it. Spaceship part is dumb but other than that its just alright.
It’s quite possible that Lucas and Spielberg were binge watching all nine seasons of “The X-Files” when they were contemplating potential stories for a fourth Indiana Jones film and were so high on alien conspiracy theories afterwards that they couldn’t wait to put their own spin on this stuff. Or perhaps Lucas was suffering from severe outer space withdrawal after having wrapped up another trilogy of “Star Wars” pictures. However it came to pass, the whole premise of ”Indiana Jones Episode IV- The Russians Strike Back”, capped off with an offensively bombastic CGI orgy of a spaceship taking off and annihilating an ancient South American city, is completely idiotic in the most damning “what the hell were they smoking” sort…
No matter what you people say this is a good movie do not @ me with your anti elderly hate speech.
This film has none of the charm of the original trilogy. Indy is back for some reason and accompanied by a greaser Shia Labeouf set during the 50's. Indy is the same Indy but the presence of Shia's character really brings down the film. His performance is terrible and the character is garbage. The actual Macguffin has no meaning and the communist antagonists are poorly executed.
Overall, this film is pretty atrocious. The most entertaining aspect was witnessing Cate Blanchett completely butcher a Russian accent.
Not as bad as some people say. Liked alot of the casting choices (Ray Winstone in particular) quite an exciting film
An embarrassing mess, Crystal Skull deserves its reputation as one of Spielberg's worst films.
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