Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

A Book Review by Liqfym
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Wow! This was a great movie! Somehow I didn't expect it to be as good as the first three, because Indy's old and doesn't quite look the same or sound the same, but it was really good!

The thing about this one - it's just a little impossible at some parts. Like, when Indy finds himself in the middle of a big fake city where they're going to test nuclear bombs and climbs into a refridgerator.... Somehow the refrigerator survives the explosion intact when nothing else does, and somehow Indiana survives falling from a huge height in this fridge and getting banged around like crazy. Sorry people, but I don't really think that's possible. Only Chuck Norris (according to many) can survive that.

Still, why should I focus on that one impossible bit? This movie was great! I somehow wasn't expecting that the biker kid Indy tags along with would be Indy's son, even though it's obvious that Indy and Marion were really in love in Raiders of the Lost Ark. And the ending scene made me cry and laugh at the same time - cry, because Indy and Marion were getting married finally, and laugh, because in the last shot, Indy's hat blows over to the feet of Indy's son, and the son picks it up, looks it over, and raises it... and Indiana walks by, grabs the hat, and puts it on his own head. So as it went over to the credits, I had no clue if I was laughing or crying.

One thing is that Indy seems to get captured a LOT. He'll get caught, escape, get caught again, escape again, get caught once more, escape once more, get caught yet again, and escape yet again, and even then the Russians have a tab on him, as his friend is leaving a trail to betray him. The escapes are epic though, and the truck chase through the jungle was brilliant!

Probably my favorite scene in this movie would be when Indy gets stuck in a dry sand hole and is sinking. Of course, the only thing Indy's son can find is a harmless snake, but, of course, Indy is not going to grab hold of that snake - it's too big to be harmless, he'll be fine, and anyway he can feel the bottom of the bottomless pit of sand, so he can push himself out of the hole without the snake, thank you very much.

In conclusion (I totally feel like I'm writing a school report or something), great, GREAT movie, a lot better than I expected!