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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

1989

Steven Spielberg

Harrison Ford, Sean Connery, Alison Doody, Denholm Elliott ...

7.8

121,121

Adventure. Action It’s 1938 and Indy (Harrison Ford) receives word that his archaeologist dad, Professor Henry Jones (Sean Connery), has disappeared while on a quest for the Holy Grail. Indy embarks on a search for both his dad and the much-coveted artifact.

	Author	Review
United States	Caryn James The New York Times	"Jeffrey Boam's screenplay (...) cannot match the wit of Lawrence Kasdan's script for ''Raiders'.' Yet of the three Jones films, 'The Last Crusade' may well become the sentimental favorite"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"'Raiders of the Lost Ark', now more than ever, seems a turning point in the cinema of escapist entertainment (...) What he has done is to take many of the same elements, and apply all of his craft and sense of fun to make them work yet once again. And they do (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"This is nothing new in the Lucas-Spielberg canon; it isn't even anything new in movies. It's a standard psychoanalytical truism"	NEG
United States	Joseph McBride Variety	"The Harrison Ford-Sean Connery father-and-son team gives 'Last Crusade' unexpected emotional depth, reminding us that real film magic is not in special effects."	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Ford and Connery make a sensational team; their relationship charges the film (...) It's Spielberg's wide-eyed enthusiasm that turns 'The Last Crusade' into the wildest and wittiest Indy of them all."	POS
United States	Jeremiah Kipp Slant	"Easily the most wholesome and earnest of the Indiana Jones series (...) It’s curiously devoid of the energy and compulsive, even manic dynamism of the previous films (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Bob McCabe Empire	"It may well be the most entertaining of the series (...) The chemistry between its two stars is a thing of dreams (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Neil Smith BBC	"It's the inspired casting of Sean Connery as Indy's crotchety father that makes the third Indy movie such a rich and rewarding experience."	POS
United Kingdom	John Ferguson Radio Times	"The masterstroke here was the introduction of Sean Connery as Indy's crotchety dad, and the snappy by-play between him and Harrison Ford adds a wonderful new twist to the adventure (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Victoria Mather Telegraph	"'Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade' is the most wonderful lark. It is also a class act."	POS
United Kingdom	Time Out	"Jeffrey Boam's script dabbles with themes of neglect and reconciliation, but there's nothing ponderous"	POS

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