Watched it when it came out and it wasn't a fan, haven't seen it since. Until tonight as in the lead up to Dual of Destiny a 1-4 rewatch was in order naturally. this one just doesn't cut the mustard, when you go back to back each film until 4.
Crystal skull felt a little lackluster, and it's crazy when you consider it's roughly the same length. The humor, the adventure and the action going from Temple of doom or last crusade is just lost here, although I did give marks and enjoy the fight sequence in the jungle all the way from the vehicles up to the temple and the library bike scene.
the other movies held my attention every nail biting second but this one I was looking away and doing menial things in the quiet parts.
Going back to last crusade where Nazis boards the plane looking superior and Indy throws him out the window before saying he didn't have a ticket, to which all the guests get their tickets out, then a lull before going into the airplane dogfight, like that's Indy - humour, suspense and action, none of which we get here in the same measure at least.
if I go to watch them again (which I will) I would be fairly happy watching 1-3 and just the bike and jungle sequence from this one skipping the rest.
I also feel this one didn't. have enough real filing locations to it as well and utilized more cgi, it's just a weird one. Speaking of I wasn't enthralled by the nuke sequence either, like yea being flown into the air inside a fridge.....was any of that necessary, Indy survives a nuke that just happens to be going off and survives, I don't know.
In my opinion the weakest in the collection thus far, although they have from what the trailers have shown, brought the Nazis back for Dial of destiny so, I'm hoping it's a return to form.
Review by MysticSynthWaveVIP 3BlockedParentSpoilers2023-07-02T01:30:06Z
Watched it when it came out and it wasn't a fan, haven't seen it since. Until tonight as in the lead up to Dual of Destiny a 1-4 rewatch was in order naturally. this one just doesn't cut the mustard, when you go back to back each film until 4.
Crystal skull felt a little lackluster, and it's crazy when you consider it's roughly the same length. The humor, the adventure and the action going from Temple of doom or last crusade is just lost here, although I did give marks and enjoy the fight sequence in the jungle all the way from the vehicles up to the temple and the library bike scene.
the other movies held my attention every nail biting second but this one I was looking away and doing menial things in the quiet parts.
Going back to last crusade where Nazis boards the plane looking superior and Indy throws him out the window before saying he didn't have a ticket, to which all the guests get their tickets out, then a lull before going into the airplane dogfight, like that's Indy - humour, suspense and action, none of which we get here in the same measure at least.
if I go to watch them again (which I will) I would be fairly happy watching 1-3 and just the bike and jungle sequence from this one skipping the rest.
I also feel this one didn't. have enough real filing locations to it as well and utilized more cgi, it's just a weird one. Speaking of I wasn't enthralled by the nuke sequence either, like yea being flown into the air inside a fridge.....was any of that necessary, Indy survives a nuke that just happens to be going off and survives, I don't know.
In my opinion the weakest in the collection thus far, although they have from what the trailers have shown, brought the Nazis back for Dial of destiny so, I'm hoping it's a return to form.