This is so bad it made me pine for the days of Temple of Doom. At least with Temple of Doom it was likely Spielberg didn’t realize he was making crap.

They open with Indiana Jones at Area 51 with an alien body and it actually gets dumber from there. This is a remarkably bad movie on all accounts. If George Lucas, Steven Spielberg and Harrison Ford sat down and decided to create the worst cinematic abomination possible just to see if they could get away with it, they would probably end up making something superior to this horrid mess.

This isn’t the worst movie I have ever seen but it is probably the most insulting one I’ve ever laid eyes on. You have Spielberg, Lucas, Ford and screenwriter David Koepp revisiting their classic character. They have the resources of the whole industry at their fingertips along with an excited (or at least curious) fan base. What do they do? They churn out the most vapid, tensionless heap possible and slap the Indiana Jones soundtrack over the top. Remember in Raiders of the Lost Ark when Indiana Jones gets on top of that submarine and then somehow rides it across the globe to the Nazis’ secret lair? Remember how you had to ignore that tugging thought “Geez, wouldn’t a submarine be underwater that whole time? How did he survive? You can hide out in a sub”? This movie is two hours of moments like that.

There has been chatter than there may be another Indiana Jones movie in the works. Maybe next time they’ll name it Indiana Jones and the Realm of Lost Credibility.


Related Reviews:
Harrison Ford movies
The Fugitive (1993)
Firewall (2006)


Other Critic's Reviews:
Huge Reviews
DarkMatters: The Mind of Matt

Labels: Cate Blanchett, film, George Lucas, Harrison Ford, Indiana Jones, movie review, Steven Spielberg