Monday, September 6, 2010

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Fourth installment deals with an older Jones (Ford is old too) battling Soviet agents while trying to uncover the mystery behind the crystal skulls. Mutt Williams (LaBeouf) accompanies Jones to Peru to find answers, including one from Williams' mother who's hiding a painfully obvious and predictable secret. Even after a nineteen year break, Idiana Jones seems tired, while Karen Allen returns to be as annoying as Capshaw was in "Idiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" (instead of being just straight up dull like she was in "Raiders of the Lost Ark"). All new characters are far from colorful. Too many sequel clichés to be fully entertained—Jones is a down-and-out has-been (eerily similar to "Rocky V" and "Rocky Balboa") who reunites with an old love-interest (so old, she's got bigger bags under her eyes than an insomniac) that we didn't know ended so bitterly (kind of like Dewey and Gale from "Scream 2" and "Scream 3"). More annoying than its predictably, corniness and clichés are actions sequences that were cheapened by CGI. You figure if another Indiana Jones was worth doing, they would've put in a little bit of effort.

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