Indie Jones

Another late night show. Walked home from the cinema with my friend...again. Man this is becoming a sweet sweet habit.

It's been such a long time since I watched an Indiana Jones flick that I've largely forgotten the characters apart from Indie and his dad. Sad, huh. Anyway, watching this show really requires you to check your sense of realism at the door. There's something known as willing suspension of disbelief, but I think this Indie took things a wee bit far.

I mean...surviving a nuclear blast in a fridge? Weird magnetism? I don't know about others, but I find it's a stretch even for my rather liberal interpretation of this current reality.

Anyway, I can't say that I didn't enjoy the film. Undoubtedly, the film retains some of the old Indiana Jones flavour, with the chase sequences and close shaves. It also follows the formula, involving some weird ancient artifact (spoiler: That, unfortunately, turned out to be not quite so rare). I still think that big UFO was a library ship.

Special effects and humorous quips aside, I think Indiana Jones is following a tired formula. The ending is utterly predictable given the roles of the different characters. The villain always gets
killed. The hero is always at the brink of disaster. For some inexplicable reason the baddies always get to the location before the hero can, or they manage to secure the area so the hero can't escape. So overall I'd give this show 6.5/10. I think that's a bit high, but then again I'm highly tolerant of breaches of reality. Reality is relative, after all.