the Worst Indy film

Rating: 5/10 (6 August 1999)

Raiders of the Lost Ark is my favorite movie of all time. This film is so far removed from the spirit of that film that it's hard to believe the same people were involved. The film utterly lacks suspense, thrills or genuine warmth, instead replaced by forced one-note "humor", calculated action scenes with no real sense of danger and Nazis so comically inept it's amazing they almost took over the world. Simply lacking the darkness that characterized the second Indy film does *not* make this one better. Good dialog and some believable action scenes are what this film needed. Between this and Lost World Speilburg has shown that for all his talent, he can't handle sequels.