DVD Review: Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Full of Action and Surprises!!!

The year is 1957, and Professor Henry Walton "Indiana" Jones (Harrison Ford) is kidnapped by Russian soldiers and their leader, Irina Spalko (Oscar Winner Cate Blanchett) to search for a magnetic box in Nevada which contains remains of alien bodies, which plays into the title of the film, referring to the Crystal Skulls. Indy and his colleague, Mac (Jim Broadbent) are taken into a secret warehouse, where Indy manages to find the crate containing the remains, but he manages to escape, but the Russians do escape with the remains. He then manages to get caught in a nuclear blast (which he survives, thanks to some quick thinking and a handy refrigerator). He is taken in and cleaned up by the U.S. Government and is fired from his Professorship at fictional Marshall College, so he embarks on a search for an old colleague, thanks to a chance meeting with a kid named Mutt Williams (Shia Lebouf), who turns out later to be Indy and Marion Ravenwood's son. His old colleague, Harold "Ox" Oxley (Oscar Winner John Hurt) holds the key to the mystery of the Crystal Skulls, but has gone missing in South America, where Indy and Mutt travel to and run into the Russians and Ox, as well as Marion (Karen Allen), and they embark on the quest to find the temple containing the answers to the whole mystery. Oh, and yes, the famous Wilhelm Scream is heard at least once in this movie. I would give this movie 4 out of 5 stars. Aliens may not be everyone's cup of tea when it comes to Indiana Jones, and I admit I was not entirely sold on it, but it is still a major thrill ride, and Harrison Ford still manages to make Indy a believable and viable action hero, nearly two decades after the last adventure.