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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
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Storyline
Famed archaeologist/adventurer Dr. Henry "Indiana" Jones is called back into action when he becomes entangled in a Soviet plot to uncover the secret behind mysterious artifacts known as the Crystal Skulls. |
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The Director
 Steven Spielberg
Steven Allan Spielberg (born December 18, 1946) is an American film director, screenwriter, film producer, video game designer and studio executive. In a career spanning five decades, Spielberg's films have covered many themes and genres. Spielberg's early science-fiction and adventure films were seen as an archetype of modern Hollywood blockbuster filmmaking. In later years, his films began addressing such issues as the Holocaust, slavery, war and terrorism. He is considered one of the most popular and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema. He is also one of the co-founders of the DreamWorks movie studio.
Spielberg won the Academy Award for Best Director for Schindler's List (1993) and Saving Private Ryan (1998). Three of Spielberg's films, Jaws (1975), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), and Jurassic Park (1993), achieved box office records, each becoming the highest-grossing fil m made at the time. To date, the unadjusted gross of all Spielberg-directed films exceeds $8.5 billion worldwide. Forbes puts Spielberg's wealth at $3.0 billion.
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Indiana Jones Collection Headed To Blu-Ray
Hey movie lovers, I'm Tatiana Carrier and I've got news on a Blu-Ray release that many fans have been waiting for since the high-definition format was invented. Last year we were treated to the release of the Jurassic Park trilogy and Star Wars Saga on Blu-Ray and now it has ...
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Reviews of the Past: Indy's Back - and He's Old and Tired!
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From May 31, 2008:
The second part of my double feature happened to be in a theater just down the way from Prince Caspian and just starting the previews and on my list of "dying to sees." So, I stopped on by. Sue me. I have been cautiously excited for the return of Indiana Jones ever since I heard Georgie and Stevie finally had a script in place and were ready to start shooting. I love the original trilogy - even the Temple of Doom has its place and is more exciting and better done than so many other films. So, I thought, Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (KSC) is bound to at least have that sense of fun and mystery that all of the Indy flicks have. And it did, to be sure, but it felt kind of like chewing an old piece of gum - this new Indy was a little tough to swallow.
Twenty years later (ten years in film time), World War II is over, and the Cold War has begun. Henry Jones, Jr aka Indiana (self-named after his dog and played by Harrison Ford), after being a decorated soldier and spy for the US government in between teaching at university and trotting the globe in pursuit of his "grave-robbing" archaeology, is captured by KGB spies, including Irina (Cate Blanchett) and taken to none other than Area 51 and a top-secret US military warehouse. Stored there, among other treasures (hint), is a mysterious skeleton, already implied to be extraterrestrial and not the kind that phones home. Indy teaches those Russkies how to find lost alien skeletons and then runs away - to an atomic bomb testing site, where climbing in a refrigerator made of lead will save him from the torching effects of A-bomb explosions and also, surprisingly, the radiation from the resulting mushr...
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reviewed by Pippin2010 (Filmaster.com) on the 9th of February 2010
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Takes away some of the pleasure of the earlier films with its hamfisted balance between action, comedy and history.