Junior's last stand?

Rating: 7/10 (31 May 2008)

This film, last in the 'Trilogy' until the search for the crystal skull nineteen years later, is perhaps the best, and certainly the funniest, and. despite special effects that look rather simple in today's CGI world, it does manage to convince.
Indy is joined in this film by his father, Henry Sr (played with panache by Sean Connery), and fellow academic Marcus Brody (the dapper Denholm Elliott). Together they search for the Holy Grail and try to outwit the Nazis (which leads to other humorous scenes, particularly one involving a priceless diary and Adolf Hitler).
Fast-moving, colourful, high on tension, and with a fun opening section with Indy as a teenager (the much-missed River Phoenix), this film finished off the saga brilliantly, and the tension between Jones Senior and Junior is both fun and sentimental.