Starring: Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Shia Labeouf, Cate Blanchett, Ray Winstone, and John Hurt.

Directed by: Steven Spielberg

Tonight, I just got back from a late night showing from the mall back from seeing “Indiana Jones and Kingdom of the Crystal Skull”.

The story and synopsis is basically Indiana Jones being kidnapped by the Russian military army which is lead by Irana Spalko (Cate Blanchett). The film is set 20 years after “The Last Crusade”, this means the Nazis disband when World War II was over with, so now Indy is fighting his life against the Russians. In the Area 51 Warehouse, Irana shows Indy a creature or alien where she wants Indy to find the object that leads into a crate into the warehouse. For some reason Irana is obsessed of finding this object called the Crystal Skull and she will not give up until she gets what she wants. Indy gets help with Mutt Williams, Marion Ravenwood and Oxley to stop the Russians from taking the skull. Indy tries to discover the secrets behind the skull for the rest of the film.

That’s all I’ll go about the story now, ’cause I don’t want to talk about the entire movie ’cause there are some surprising moments. That above is just a synopsis.

As far as my thoughts of the movie goes. It was a thrill ride. The film didn’t bore me one bit, I didn’t yawn at all or didn’t even fall asleep. “Indy and The Crystal Skull” is made what an Indiana Jones movie is supposed to be. I felt that “Indy 4” came close to being almost like “Raiders of the Lost Ark”. The action scenes in the film were absolutely breathtaking.

A lot of CGI was done in this movie, but hey, I didn’t mind it in this movie ’cause it’s pretty cool to see an Indy movie in this current time. In the early Indy movies didn’t use much computer effects. As far as the acting goes, I think the acting of Harrison Ford, Karen Allen and Cate Blanchett pretty much stoled the show. Harrison Ford still plays Indy like he always had. Karen Allen still played Marion like she was in “Raiders”, same attitude and same personality. Cate Blanchett, wow, what a great villain! I like the idea of a female lead villain ’cause male villains gets boring!

One thing that I love about Indy 4 is that it mixes history with science fiction. Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull is a science fiction movie, big time. You’ll know when you go see it. So for my thoughts on the movie? I thought it was AMAZING!!!!! WOW WOW WOW!!!! I’m definitely gonna see it again! Seriously, I was totally impressed with the movie. Spielberg has a lot of science fiction experience like with E.T. and Close Encounters, and he mixed all that with Indy. Interesting!

Does the Ark Of Covenant make a return in the film? You’ll have to go and see it yourself. Because I’m not gonna say if it’s in the film or not. 🙂

Score for “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” = **** (4 Stars as in “Excellent”)

Kev