The good old times.

Rating: 10/10 (2 June 2008)

Well, maybe I have a pathological sense of justice, but after giving "Indiana Jones and the kingdom of the crystal skull" a 1 out of 10, i had to come back and giving "The last crusade" the full score. It IS the perfect Indy flick. Well, you had the first one, which re-invented a genre. you had the second one, which is a classic movie, even if it lacks in story-coherence and is way to dark. but the third one brings all to an perfect end. here we have three wonderful actors (Phoenix, Ford and Connery), casted perfectly and act perfect together (Ford and Connery), we have a great story that keeps it all going: the search for a poor beaker, but in an excellent twist a search, that reflects and symbolizes the search for the (holy) father and the (holy) son in Henry Jones Sen. and Indiana. That's a McGuffin, integrated so well in a story, Hitchcock maybe would have wished to have a cameo in that movie. Well add very good baddies (the Germans were always reliable ones), effectively used action and suspense and a nice love-hate relationship between Indy and the bad girl and there you have a classic! So forget about that stupidity which calls itself a fourth Indy movie and let's always remember Indy as riding into the sunset...