First I have to say that I am a fan of the indiana jones series. When I heard that this movie was coming out I could not wait to see it. I saw the ads and it did not look that bad. In watching this movie I was disappointed. Part of the problem is...
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First I have to say that I am a fan of the indiana jones series. When I heard that this movie was coming out I could not wait to see it. I saw the ads and it did not look that bad. In watching this movie I was disappointed. Part of the problem is that it has to live up to the other three movies which it does not. Ford reprises his role as jones but he is long in the tooth. He looks every bit the age of 65 yrs old. Russian agents take the place of the nazis. They kidnap jones and make him show them where a certain artifact is at in area 51 in the u.s.a. Then jones makes his getaway in the typical indiana jones fashion. Then as he is going away (because he is being forced to take a leave of absence from his teaching job) labeouf stops him from leaving. He tells jones his mother is in trouble as is a collegue of jones. The both of them go searching with a letter which gives them clues of where to go. Then they have to go after a crystal skull all the while dodging the russians (lead by blanchett). I will not explain the rest of the movie because I do not want to spoil anything for anybody. I see that lucas was responsible for writing this story and you can see where he touch is. The ending is kinda lame to be honest and it leaves you wondering .. what the hell is this!!.. Now ford is a good actor but I do not think he has it in him to do the physical aspect of this movie. One thing that made this series different from the others is that it did the special effects the old fashioned way. Stunt men where used and not too much cgi graphics. This movie follow suit except for the fact that you know beyond a shadow of a doubt that that is not ford. Also this movie has a few scenes which are just not believable. No matter what in the other movies it seemed possible that he could do some of the things he did in those movies. Whereas in this movie its just not possible some of the things he does. Labeouf plays a good sidekick but he is not good trying to play a tough kid. Allen is in the movie for about 45 mins as is hurt. Blanchett well what can I say.. she plays a russian with an average russian accent. She spends most of the movie yelling and screaming in russian while shooting a gun. She also gets physical in a few scenes but she basically does not have a lot to do here. Part of the problem with this movie is that it has to live up to the legend of the other films. If this was a stand alone movie it would have been fine but sad to say it is not. I can reccommend this movie if you are a fan of the series and want to complete it. If not you could really skip it because there is not much here. Even the action sequences are not up to the usual indy par.