May 2008

Indiana Jones and the Disappointing Adventure

  • Title: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
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“What does God need with a starship?”

indiana-jones-and-the-kingdom-of-the-crystal-skull-posterThe film opens at the height of the Red Scare as Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) fights off Soviet agents, led by Cate Blanchett, who show up to steal a crystal skull from a secret government warehouse.  Indy’s failure to stop the theft brings up questions of his loyalty and he finds himself on forced sabbatical from the university.

Indy quickly finds a new outlet when a kid named Mutt Williams (Shia LaBeouf) asks Indy for help in retrieving another crystal skull found by one of Indy’s colleagues (John Hurt) to save his mother Marion (Karen Allen) from the Nazis.

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