I won’t go into all the details, but this movie was a huge letdown filled with clichés, forced scene setups, rehashes of scenes from the previous three films and an alien subplot that made me kept thinking Mulder and Scully were lurking in the shadows.
The movie has some funny moments and Harrison Ford still wears the Fedora well, but overall it lacked any spark from the original and by the time I got to the end it seemed so far fetched and ridiculous I honestly thought the movie was a gag for the X-Files.
Perhaps this is just a bridge movie to pass on the torch, but it’s sad to see this movie as such a pale reflection of the Indiana Jones of decades past.
4 Responses to “The Disappointment of Indiana Jones”
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May 23rd, 2008 at 5:22 pm
Wow,
You have just ruined my summer. I was hoping this would at least be a decent film. It’s been so long since anything worth watching has been released from Hollywood. Oh well… Back to drinking.
June 1st, 2008 at 11:54 am
Maybe the movie would have been better had I been drinking
Some of it was good, and it looked like the old Indie, but this whole aliens thing just didn’t do a thing for me. I guess they ran out of religious ideas and went with the next best thing.
June 12th, 2008 at 8:08 pm
Yeah, when you’ve found the Arc and the grail, what else is there left to do?
….maybe meet Jesus, but that’s about it.
June 16th, 2008 at 1:00 pm
I’m sure there’s some cool “treasures” out there they could have chosen, but you’re right, they went for the brass ring in the first movie and only topped that by going with the Grail itself. They kind of painted themselves into a corner after that. The Templar treasure and Incan gold was already discovered by Ben Gates so I guess they threw caution to the wind and went with aliens.
I’m sure there are plenty of other religiously significant relics out there they could have chosen, unless of course they’re all sitting in the Area 51 warehouse already.