Very good third installment

Rating: 9/10 (3 March 2003)

This one was a lot better to me than the Temple of Doom. What made this one fun to watch was great action and great interplay between Connery and Harrison Ford. Sean Connery really added a spark to this one and provided the film with some of its more humorous elements (Still like Raiders best though). This one has Indiana looking for the Holy Grail...the villains, once again it is the Nazis. This one starts out with kind of an earlier Jones adventure with the late River Phoenix as the young Indiana Jones taking an artifact from this tomb raiders cause as Indy says, "it belongs in a museum". Then the story flash forwards to him trying to recover the same artifact. Then he goes after the Holy Grail because his father has disappeared while looking for it. This leads Indy to Venice then to a castle in, I think, Austria where he finds his dad a prisoner of the Nazis. After they get away they have to go into the heart of Germany to retrieve a book that will help them get through traps that protect the Holy Grail. They take a zephyr and there is a cool bi-plane fight and then it is off to a Middle Eastern country to find the grail. The trap scenes are cool and there is a great tank scene before the traps. Then comes the only complaint I have and that is the chamber with the Holy Grail...the guy guarding it was a bit lame. Other than that though, this was a really great movie.