Movie #106 – Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) - 127 min, cert PG.
Indy is back. This time he is seeking the Holy Grail, the cup the Jesus used at the Last Supper. He has to enlist the assistance of the World’s leading expert on the subject who happens to be none other than his father, Henry Jones snr (Sean Connery). Marcus Brody (Denholm Elliott) also tags along for the ride. Again there are Nazis also after the same artefact. In fact, all in all, the plot runs along very similar lines to Raiders of the Lost Ark.
It’s a lot of fun, as sequels go, but I really don’t see how it deserves a place in the Top 250. It is certainly better than the second film, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, but that’s not saying much. Sean Connery clearly has a lot of fun hamming it up as the bookish Henry Jones, and it is probably his performance as much as anything that lifts the movie to the position that it finds itself in. But, at the end of the day, it’s a second sequel that just rehashes the same material as the original. There is nothing new here, just a studio cashing in on a tried and tested formula.
Score – 7/10. Pretty good as sequels go, but still just a sequel.
Next up is Hitchcock’s Rebecca. This is another one of those films that I last saw many years ago, and can’t remember much about.
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