ugh.

I know I likely had my expectations set a bit too high for this movie as it is the latest installment to one of the fabled favorite trilogies of my youth, but when you come out of it saying “well, we’ve definitely seen worse movies” you are really reaching to find that silver lining.

I can’t fault Harrison Ford as he delivers a fairly standard and solid Ford performance as an older Indiana, but I can only imagine how he must have struggled to choke out some of the crap he was forced to say. I picture him getting the final script, reading it through and wondering what he had done to deserve a punishment like this.

“So I return the skull and then.. wait.. what movie are we making again?”

pointless and most times unbelievable stunts (and not in the good way like some of the earlier films), a weak script (from Lucas? the hell you say!), CGI that very obviously looked like CGI and out of place for a movie set in 1957, and it was all rolled together with something that I guess could be called a plot but I wouldn’t blame anyone if they got it confused with swiss cheese.

For those that have seen it, I’m sure you’d agree that it almost seemed like they were trying too hard to live up to the Indiana legacy (eg. bringing back people from the earlier fims)… trying and failing.

I don’t know where to begin with pointing out what is wrong with this movie, so I’ll just leave it up to you to decide if you want to go see it.

If you do, I can’t say I didn’t warn you.

4/10