So.. having heard all the relatively bad reviews in the media regarding Indian Jones and the (Whatever) I have to report that on the whole, I actually really enjoyed the film.

Which, if you have read my previous post, was of some relief to me. OK, so some of the opening scenes had rather too much of the "Basil Exposition" about them. What with Jim Robinson (OK... Alan Dale) spilling out Indiana's entire war record in an accent that's American via South Africa. Actually that scenes that weakest in the entire film. So a good job they got it out of the way early!

I get what people are saying about the scene regarding his dead being dead. But it cuts into the arrival of a new person in his life. I'll not spoil it... although you'd have to be completely stupid not to work it out.

The "brought a knife to a gunfight" line is interesting. I could only link it to the scene in "The Untouchables" where it is spoken by Sean Connery does his Scottish / Irish accent (as opposed to his Scottish/Russian, Scottish/Egyptian or any other variant).

Back to the film. It's not a good as Raiders of the Lost Ark. But then that's a pretty high target. It looked fresh, people have fond memories. It's totally better than "The Last Crusade" which was a total mess and (if you ignore Kate Capshaw... not hard) it's probably on par with "The Temple of Doom". With better effects.... and ANTS!

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