Rating: PG
Running time: 122 minutes
Opens: 22 May 2008, Now Showing
Some info:
1) Wiki Article
2) IMDB Profile
3) MovieMistakes Profile
4) Official Site (English)
Another much anticipated sequel, with the last movie being almost 2 decades ago. Admittedly, I can’t remember much of what I’ve watched in the older movies, nor did I catch channel 5’s screening of the prequels recently. Lol. But I guess that doesn’t really matter. This movie is an adventure of its own, with the Indiana Jones touch (I can remember that much, I *think* =P).
Well, the main storyline and plot is summarised on Wiki so I won’t go much into introducing what the movie is about this time round. As I can’t exactly remember how the prequels are liao, judging this movie alone makes me think that much effort was put into this movie in order to continue the success of this iconic character.
This movie packs a lot of action, but it isn’t the martial arts skills type. I guess the longest sequence would be in the jungle where they had the vehicle chase. Quite a long time was spent on that part, and indeed it’s quite exciting in some sense. Other action scenes were in general not too exaggerated except for the “spectacular” aiming of Soviet soldiers, though sometimes it looked a bit not like modern films would offer (which is kinda the idea of keeping the original Indiana Jones style I guess…).
Now to comment on some “mistakes” and things that don’t seem right (to me). As usual, MovieMistakes does a crazily amazing job in spotting mistakes. Powerful…
1) Most easily seen is that after Indiana and gang gets all soaked and drenched in one scene, very soon after their clothes are all dry and stuff, which is quite a common mistake in movies lah.
2) If the skull is needed to enter the final chamber, how was it stolen in the first place? Interesting…
3) At the beginning, when Indiana was made to find the right crate in the huge US military warehouse, he used gunpowder to find the general direction. While each of the powder is small in mass, to be affected some distance away from the exact location, I would expect all the soldiers’ guns etc to be somewhat significantly affected when all of them were in close proximity. Apparently the movie portrayed only those like who were like several cm away from it were affected. Ah wells.
4) Dun wan to say more liao. A lot more good stuff on MovieMistakes (see above for link).
A good mixture of action and funny scenes. Nice adventure too. My take: 7/10. Go watch it =D
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