The chemistry between its two stars is a thing of dreams, but the plot is a tad too episodic to make it a classic.
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05/05/08
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
89 %
Reviews Counted: 54 Fresh: 48 Rotten:6 Average Rating: 7.9/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 8 mins
Synopsis: Steven Spielberg's third action-packed entry in the Indiana Jones trilogy evokes the cliffhanger Saturday matinee serials of yesteryear. It's 1938 and Indy (Harrison Ford) receives word that his archaeologist dad, Professor Henry Jones (Sean Connery), has disappeared while on a quest... [More]
Genre: Action/Adventure
Starring: Harrison Ford, Sean Connery, John Rhys-Davies, Alison Doody, Denholm Elliott
Director: Steven Spielberg
Screenwriter: Jeffrey Boam
Story: George Lucas, Menno Meyjes
Producer: Robert Watts
Composer: John Williams
Screenwriter: Jeffrey Boam
Story: George Lucas, Menno Meyjes
Producer: Robert Watts
Composer: John Williams
Reviews
Top Critic
Spielberg's direction is typically manipulative, but the stars and megabucks spent maintain our interest.
05/05/08
Top Critic
Jeffrey Boam's script dabbles with themes of neglect and reconciliation, but there's nothing ponderous about the duo's near death scrapes and light-hearted tussels over the same blonde Fräulein.
06/24/06
Top Critic
A brilliant coup sees the film kick off with an extended flashback to Indiana's early days and our young hero (Phoenix) having his first taste of adventure during a scout trip in Utah.
01/10/02
Top Critic
...it's impossible to deny the film's status as the very best of the series' sequels...
05/26/08
This is reportedly the last time producer/writer George Lucas and director Steven Spielberg will treat movie fans to an Indiana Jones adventure, and it's pretty obvious they were determined to send Indy riding off into the sunset in style.
05/22/08
There's considerable pleasure in watching these two lions spar, but sometimes Last Crusade mistakes dotting every I and crossing every T for detailed character development.
05/21/08
Connery brings out a vastly appealing dorky-kid side of Ford we haven't seen before in the Indy films, and Ford parries with Connery angrily yet lovingly.
05/21/08
Now only twilight and sunset. Illumination fades; the self annihilates in silhouette. And all (father, son, and spirit) is one.
05/19/08
The eventual arrival of towering screen presence Sean Connery as Dr. Henry Jones, Sr. alongside Harrison Ford as Dr. Henry Jones, Jr. allows for what may be adventure cinema's most potent pairing. [DVD]
05/14/08
...although I personally find The Last Crusade a little less energetic and inspired than Raiders, there is much to enjoy in both pictures.
05/07/08
What was conceived as a child's dream of a Saturday matinee serial has evolved into a moving excursion into religious myth.
05/05/08
Top Critic
Despite strong acting (the slapstick energy between Ford and Connery is wasted), obligatory chases and stunts and splendid art direction, the virtuoso technique evident in every frame remains formulaic -- unaccompanied by revelation, epiphany or surprise.
05/05/08
Top Critic
The fast pace and force-fed wisecracks are as seamless as ever, but rarely has audience laughter sounded as hollow.
05/05/08
The third, most Freudian and weakest of the three chapters of the Indiana Jones saga that began so well in 1981 with Raiders of the Lost Ark, but then gradually declined.
05/04/08
A very disappointing sequel that's just too jokey for its own good. Lacks the intense thrills of the first two.
02/16/06
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