This guy's the HERO???????

Rating: Null/10 (23 January 2006)

Has anyone noticed what an incompetent bungler dearest Indy is? How EVERY TIME he comes up against Belloq he LOSES whatever he has--statues, girls, the Ark itself? As Belloq puts it at the beginning (approximately), "Once again we see that there is nothing you can recover that I cannot take from you." And he's absolutely correct--right up to the Ark TWICE!! It happens EVERY TIME!! The only thing Indy manages to do right is find the Ark itself--and Belloq promptly grabs it away, because gee, guess what? They're digging on a knoll against the setting sun right next to the Nazis' dig, and making no secret of it. Till finally at the end God Himself has to save the day. Good thing for Indy (and the rest of us I guess) He's on the side of the democracies. Which opens all sorts of theological questions and problems I won't touch. Mind you, Indy can work miracles too--he can ride a submarine thousands of miles across the ocean without drowning, or even getting wet. AND keep the Nazis cooped up inside the whole time (a very good thing since there's no place to hide on the sub's hull). To be fair to the movie, Indy is such a lovable lug (and it was so nice to see that Ford was finally learning to act) that only the sub ride bothered me initially. To fully grasp IJ's incompetence I had to see "Raiders" several times. Which I did, but that only shows I have a weakness for roller coasters and gratuitously fx-heavy endings, however illogical. Mea culpa.