| Studios: | Paramount Pictures |
| Release: | May 22, 2008 |
| Genre: | Action/Adventure and Sequel |
| MPAA Rating: | PG-13 for adventure violence and scary images. |
My Yahoo! Movies Rating: | Overall Grade: | B- |
| Story: | C+ |
| Acting: | B |
| Direction: | B |
| Visuals: | B |
How do you explain 20 years?
It's been that long since the last movie: real time and plot wise. And a fifth of the movie is devoted to explaining what happened to the characters: who died, who got married, and who got himself lost in a jungle looking for a hidden city. Along the way Indy realizes that his side kick Mutt is actually his son. More or less, the writers are tying loose ends and if things go well, preparing the franchise for a new era where Mutt would probably replace Indiana Jones.
Bringing the movie to the 21st century are savvy action sequences and better special effects.
Early on, we find out that the plot involves aliens and their supposed role in ancient South American civilization ... antique collectors that natives regarded as gods.
The latter plot would work in another science fiction movie, but to bring it into an Indiana Jones flick would have some mutter "Oh please". Not everyone I know liked having aliens in the plot. I for one think that the plot has already been used in Stargate. For the record though I didn't hate the "alien" factor. What made it cheesy is the plot where the Nazis plan to use alien technology to control the minds of people. And Indy doesn't even make a snarky remark about the plan when he learned about it.
The action was enjoyable. Shia LeBeouf once more is able to blend seriousness while acting out a funny situation, which he was able to pull off well in Transformers. Harrison Ford shows everyone that getting old doesn't mean acting old. And finally, he ties the knot.
Fun as the ride was, I found that the impact of this movie is less compared to what I felt in the previous 3 movies. Maybe "world domination through mind control" had a lot to do with it... the argument for it wasn't convincing and menacing enough that I actually found it funny.
I walked out of the movie theater hoping a get better experience with the Mummy sequel.
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