Sharon Movie: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)

Director: Steven Spielberg
Writer: George Lucas and Menno Meyjes
Genre: Action/Adventure


Story

The film starts off with a quick look at the early years of Indiana Jones and where he picked up some of his fears and motivations for what he does now. The story picks up later with Jones finally regaining the treasure he was trying to get as a kid. When he gets back from reclaiming this treasure and getting it put into the museum, his father turns up missing. His father Professor Henry Jones (Sean Connery) has been captured by the Nazis because he was looking for the Holy Grail which they would love to get their hands on. Indiana Jones has to get his father back, but he and his father cannot resist going after the Holy Grail as well and besides they feel they have to get to it before the Nazis do so the power does not fall into the wrong hands.



Everything Else

The directing by Spielberg on the Last Crusade completely redeems the series after the failure of the second film. The second film was good, but simply did not live up to the first and suffered from terrible special effects and plot (George Lucas). Thankfully Spielberg put some more time and effort into making Last Crusade and added Sean Connery to the mix. Sean Connery absolutely made the Last Crusade. Sean Connery did an excellent job obviously and the way Harrison Ford and Sean Connery acted with each other was perfect. The humor of the series was back and not because the special effects were so bad you couldn’t help but laugh; rather it was because Spielberg had finally made the sequel he should have made with the second film.


The action was non-stop in Last Crusade (maybe not as much so as Kingdom of the Crystal Skull) and the story was sound. The biggest problem with Temple of Doom was the storyline and the special effects, but both of those things were great in Last Crusade. George Lucas also added the background necessary to develop the characters further by adding an early adventure of Indiana Jones.


The Real Deal

I loved Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Possibly it was just the addition of Sean Connery, but still there are a lot of things I remember from the series when looking back and most of them are from Last Crusade. Spielberg rounded out the trilogy well which is why it was surprising he decided to press his luck with a fourth. I guess if you have tons of money and you are sure to make more by making another film, then why not. Although all of these Indiana Jones movies carry the PG to PG-13 rating they all have gross moments and scenes that could cause little children to be scared and will make adults squirm from time to time, but the language and violence is mild. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade was a worthy ending to the Indiana Jones trilogy, but I guess a fourth film is never out of the question even a decade or two later.


The Short Version

Raw Score: 858,349
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