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I saw the new Indiana Jones movie, and let's lawful say that it wasn't the greatest movie I've ever seen. I'd open space it #3 or 4 out of the four Indiana Jones movies (with 1 being the most good, and 3 being second best). There were rightful so many continuity problems with the movie that I was starting to get frustrated with it.

Now, this movie is put out by two of the most dedicated men in movies (Lucas and Spielberg), so I was in earnest surprised at some of the blatant problems in both the movie and the script. Some of the make a butt of between characters was extremely contrived to the sharp end of absurdity. There was one scene where Indiana and Co. are in a martial vehicle CHASING after the bad Nazi woman (okay, she was veritably a Soviet Natasha unrevealed agent, but she was played as a representative Nazi), with Indie declaration something like "Catch her!" The camera then switches prospect, and now the evil Nazi woman is BEHIND them wearisome to catch up to them.

Some of the plot twists were so obnoxious that I wondered if they were supposed to be tricks that they were going to cleverly revolve on us, but no, they weren't. They were just badly scripted plat points. (spoiler vigilant----> Hey, Indie, if a woman you port't seen for twenty years has a twenty year old kid who is as unrestrained-spirited as you are, perhaps you should think a minute bit about the origins of that kid, especially when his "male parent" is mentioned as someone REALLY susceptible of more than one meaning).

There was one throw-away extended mark that I think was put into the movie for Lucas/Harrison Shallow fans where Indiana says: "I got a bad melting about this." Kind of takes ya back to the profitable ole' days of Hans Solo when he was coasting towards that satellite ("that's no moon").

There was some good old fashioned whip em up action in the movie, which should always be expected from an Indiana Jones movie. There were a brace of references to the practically unwatched television concatenation about Indiana Jones that someone not having watched that line...

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