Scanialara
You won't be disappointed!
Jeanskynebu
the audience applauded
Ogosmith
Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.
Stephanie
There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes
garliccam
While it's considered the worst Indiana Jones movie there was a lot of competition as the original three where all amazing movies. Do I agree, we'll see.Good things
The motorcycle chase- classic Indy action at its finest. It wasn't over the top and never felt cartoony
The Warehouse fight- more classic Indy action with cars, guns and hand to hand combats. While it does have some corny sequences and deaths with that rocket thing, it was a great way to start the movie
The Cafe- it manages to be suspenseful and funny in the short time we're there. The build up to the eventual motorcycle chase was handled perfectly and the actual fight inside, while short got a laugh.
Harrison Ford/Indiana Jones- he still got it. He felt just as energized and fun as the original three and was great to watch
Mutt- the idea of a rebellious teen having to work along side Indy was an interesting choice and it was fun to watch him bounce of Indy. While he won't work as a way to hand the Torch, I'm glad he was here
Irina Spalko- as the main villain of the movie, she was arguably the most fun to watch. She felt like the best fit for the movie, as someone like Belloq or Donovan wouldn't work for the plot with all the communism and a Mola Ram type villain had no place. She is arguably the most efficient villain in the serious being the only one to make Indy unconsciously help her without help of voodoo (Mola Ram). And she knows how to sword fight. Always a plus.
The sets- the sets in this movie looks gorgeous and real. They did a good job with them
The temple itself- while the last third of the movie is weaker then the first parts, there is still the scenes in the temple, at least the first half of them. The Pilar's were amazing to see, the stairs going into the wall was heart pounding, the door opening was cool and lastly the throne room looked great.
Ants- while the worst creepy crawly out of the four, it is the most deadly.
The story- I always wanted Indy to find a Lost city in South America and the thing about aliens coming and having the people build a city out of pure gold works on a historical level as there are many story's of this sort of thing happening.
The quicksand pit- it was funny. Nothing elseMeh stuff
The marriage- boring but an ok ending for the plot they were going for.
Oxley- he was ok I guess. Nothing really special
The cemetery scenes- its entertaining and boring all at once. How do you do that
The soundtrack- it was a mixed bag, with some great tracks and some mediocre at bestBad stuff
Marion- Why is she back. Come on it should just have been a cameo. She was just smiling and laughing the whole time, there was just no tension in the scenes with her.
The tree bending- ??????
The main ending- bad CGI aliens and UFOs coming out of the ground and macs confusing death and Spalkos what happened to her death and knowledge being the treasure and water blasting everyone out made this the worst ending in the series
Monkeys- No point to be here and looks bad
Nuke the fridge- everyone's already trashed this so moving on
The scenes in Indy's house- BORING
Communist side plot- it was so unimportant it makes you wonder why it was even includedConclusion
So yeah, I think it is the worst in the series like they majority of people, but it is still a good movie. While it's there more bad things then the other movies, there were many good things too. It certainly was a fun time and a worthy entry into the legandary series
7/10If I missed anything I felt it wasn't important enough for me to include
chirodocchad
This movie is for those craving old school filmmaking of the early 90s. If you can accept it as a parody that doesn't seem like it is ACTUALLY trying to be a parody, then this movie is for you. Loved the old Indiana Jones movies. This one is ridiculous in not a good way.
abalpn-99472
I've watched this with my dad in 2008. I enjoyed it and I said that I'm an Indy fan. I've watched the first three films and now this. There were others saying that they didn't like this film but I liked the art and style of this film. There were other Indy fans who enjoyed this film. Others can say whatever they want. It's fine and I don't mind. I'm entitled to my opinion. I even enjoyed the non-stop action. It was great to have Karen Allen back as Marion Ravenwood. I heard that the 5th Indy film is coming soon so I'm not sure what to expect.I liked the story of the Crystal Skull and its origin. They did a good job with the special effects just like Raiders of the Lost Ark. To me, it's fun to watch this film and enjoy it. It's the spirit of the Raiders film and the whole franchise. I give this film 10/10 stars for my own opinion and point of view.
cinemajesty
After a two-year-break from directing following up his arguably best movie "Munich" (2005) in terms of daring the utmost controversial theme surrounding an Hebrew death squad on an international assassination streak as retaliation of a race-inflicted massacre at 1972 Olympic Games, Steven Spielberg returns to his roots with an overlong-awaited fourth adventure of the character of Indiana Jones, created by George Lucas and Philip Kaufman at the end of 1970s, in the Hollywood event movie "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of Crystal Skull".Utilizing no references from graphic novels or contents of international comics, the movie had become a gentle contender in May 2008 for the emerging Marvel empire with first installment of "Iron Man" directed by Jon Favreau to second-career coming of actor Robert Downey Jr. after a 10 year struggle of addiction and low-profile role playing. Director Steven Spielberg, backed up by his 25-year-plus collaboration producing partners Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall to fight off the competitive battle for the U.S. domestic audience, which worked out due to a three-week separation window from the Marvel Phase 1 movie.Nevertheless, the collaborators encircling Steven Spielberg as trademark of a director had to witness that the landscape of high-end budgeted Hollywood movies were about to change forever after. Actor Harrison Ford still holding the torch since the summer of 1981 of having created an on-screen iconic character, which has been connected to his acting career ever since not harming his occasionally diverse performances as the character of Rozat "Rusty" Sabich in Alan J. Pakula directed "Presumed Innocent" (1990).The fourth time around in 27 years through cinematic landscape as Indiana Jones, Harrison Ford receives two challenging actors to his journey to South America to retrieve the title given artifact and encounters extra-terrestrial powers in Amazon rain-forest of Peru, on the one side Cate Blanchett, as power-addicted Russian military executive Irina Spalko, able to strap Indy to a chair under hypnosis dropping the infamous punchline on Indy's question, "Do you always get what you want?", she replies without even honor him with a look, "I usually do!"; on the other side fresh-out of Michael Bay's establishing "Transformers" boot-camp, actor Shia LaBeouf, seemingly had to have a ball under Steven Spielberg's care-taking directorial approach, which led him to an homage on Marlon Brando's leading character in "The Wild One" (1953) without taking himself to seriously to fall into a trap of the need to exceed an the unrepeatable character of Johnny Strabler.With his cast in safe-keeping play-mood, Director Steven Spielberg ignites a festival of a wholesome orchestra of every cinematic ingredient given from Cinematography by Janusz Kaminski utilizing Arriflex 235/435 with Panavision Primos to computer-generated imagery by George Lucas' special effects company, established in May 1975 just before pre-production to the very first "Star Wars" movie, Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), the director gathers in his 35-year-plus career as an Director for Life all his knowledge on movie-making into "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" that it still keeping up after 9 years on an occasional revisit as joyful, comic-madness challenging entertainment movie; which leaves me only left to wish for the already announced fifth installment finally to be the 1990s LucasArts adventure game adaptation of "The Fate of Atlantis" in a film noir environmental setting with less 185 Million U.S. Dollar justifying action sequences and more Hitchcockian suspense. © 2017 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)