A visual Treat

The fourth of the series from George Lucas and Steven Spielberg is a visual treat. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull takes the Archaeologist Adventurer globe trotting yet again and saves the day after some of the craziest chase sequences.

A visibly older Harrison Ford still has what it takes to be Dr. Henry Jones or Indy as he is affectionately called by his friends. The movie also stars Cate Blanchet as the crazy Russian Scientist who is after Crystal Skull and hopes to achieve world domination through it.

Personally it is a slick film, but when you come from a generation that has grown up with Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Temple of Doom and The Last Crusade, this film seems a bit pretentious in its attempt to conjure memories of the whip slinging adventurer of the old days. It’s as though Lucas is trying to capitalise a franchise (milk a cow), the same way he did with the Star Wars saga. The first three were cult drivers and the next three seemed like an attempt to revive the cult.

But Lucas fails to realise that the cult was the cult back then and it still is the cult, but only with our generation and trying to infuse that in the modern generation is not going to work with sequels and prequels to his earlier movies. If he wants to capture the imagination of the modern generation X, Y, Z or whatever they call themselves, he’s got to conjure up some new tales and characters.

Of course I’ll still say it’s worth watching because it Lucas Spielberg magic in motion movie making.