Quick Review: Indiana Jones…Kingdom…Crystal Skull

Maybe my expectations were too high. Maybe I let all the hype and buzz around the movie get to me. Maybe it was remembering how the previous movies made me feel. Maybe it was nostalgia. Maybe it was Lucas and Spielberg together again. I don’t know. The movie wasn’t what I hoped it would be. It was just okay. It didn’t have that sense of adventure from the other movies. The heroes were in sticky situations, but they weren’t ever in any real harm. The age jokes were okay. There was one chase too many. The story, as fantastic as it was, was predictable and not very compelling. No wonder Lucas didn’t care about the script leakage. It’s going to make a lot of money, but not because of how great it is. If you like Indiana Jones, you’ll probably like the movie. Don’t get me wrong; I liked the movie, it just made me feel…unsatisfied.

(1 votes, average: 3 out of 5)

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This post was written by Bedlam on May 24, 2008

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Obsidian 7 months ago 1 point
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I think they suffered from the same problem Phantom Menance had, impossible for it to live up to the hype. People wanted to be transported back to the "good old days" of the first three films. The problem is that the good old day where never as good as we remember them. If raiders where to come out now it would be a marginal hit.

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Beezy 6 months ago 1 point
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The problem with the film is that the storyline is not challenging to comtemporary audiences. How maany times has the whole " Area 51, frozen alien in the desert," cliche been exhaustively played out in the movies and on television.

How many different ways can "Thevin' Stealberg," portray an alien with an oblong head...Close Encounters, E.T. Why borrow from a genre he benchmarked many years ago?

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