Not normally a movie critic, I don’t listen to movie critics… I prefer to see the movie and make my own conclusion and let others make theirs. Movies are art and therefore subject to one’s individual interpretation… I determined a long time ago that it’s pointless to try to convince someone a movie is good or a movie is bad, doesn’t mean I don’t try though…
My family and I saw “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” this past Friday. I was excited about seeing it because I loved watching the original “Indiana Jones” movies as a kid. Let me point out that the silliness and corny nature of “Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” is not what I have a problem with, it goes in line with the previous films and is part of the “Indiana Jones” signature. I loved it when Mutt flew through the air swinging on vines like a monkey, I can even go with Indy surviving a nuclear explosion in a fridge. Harrison Ford still has what it takes and plays Indiana Jones beautifully; Shia LaBoef manages to not be annoying and pulls his character Mutt off well. The acting, cinematography, visual effects are all great! The problem is the story – I can do aliens, or interdimensional beings, I will even give you crystal skeletons that are alive. However, the movie had no point. They discovered apparently super intelligent beings who in the process of trying to impart their “superior” knowledge killed Irina Spalko and then split town destroying any evidence that they ever existed… I mean really. I sat in the theater waiting till the end hoping that there would be a line, a scene, something that would bring it all together that would make it all make sense… didn’t happen.
Mr. Spielberg, Mr. Lucas – I want my money back.
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