Indy 4

 6/10

Movie:

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)

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| Entry | Caught 'Indy 4' the other night. After Eric watched a preview last weekend and I read Olivier's blog about it, I had tempered expectations. Also I was one of those guys who was thinking that Harrison Ford was too over-the-hill to make an Indy movie as good as the last one. :-P

So when I finally watched it, I was pleasantly surprised. Not great, but not horrible. It's basically a mindless, summer action 'popcorn' movie... which I had to remind myself, the original Indy movies (at least the 3rd one) were too.

Aside from the age issues, the biggest issue I had was the fact that the story was a bit TOO over the top. with the exception of a few big finale scenes here and there in the originals, they pretty much 'real world'... ie entirely were controlled by physics, scientific reality and reasonable 'believability'.

This one unfortunately takes it a bit too far for my taste... and worse yet, it seems to be a bit selective about it (the magnetism conveniently turns on and off!?)

And you know if the 'regular' part is over the top, then the unrealistic finale is that much more so. :-P

Anyway, entertaining ride, almost as good as the third one... :-P

6/10.