Chatverock
Takes itself way too seriously
ChicDragon
It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.
Twilightfa
Watch something else. There are very few redeeming qualities to this film.
Osmosis Iron
Truly great blend of high adventure and simply wonderful humor. Sean Connery as Indy's father is absolutely fantastic and the banter between these two is great. The ending sequence is one of my favorite endings and a really iconic scene. Easily my favorite Indy movie, an absolute blast from start to finish!
jmmustchin
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is set two years after Raiders of the Lost Ark, and three years after Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Indie (Harrison Ford) and his father, Professor Henry Jones (Sean Connery), find themselves in a globe-trotting adventure to find the Holy Grail before the Nazis can get their hands on it.
The film is quite exciting and very funny. It had a much lighter tone and lower violence than the previous films. It's also funnier than the others.
The actors do a good job, especially Sean Connery. He provides such humour to both his role and the film. Many people criticise the Indie-Henry relationship in the film. I think it's the best damn relationship/interaction in the whole series!
The Last Crusade admittedly isn't quite the same as Raiders, but it's quite good in its own right.
cinemajesty
Movie Review: "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" (1989)Director Steven Spielberg exceeds himself with this Adventure story of a son namely "Indiana Jones" in search for his father "Henry Jones Sr.", portrayed to Harrison Ford match-making Sean Connery, at age-turning 58, never been better in wits, charms and moments of superior hands-on live-action scenes in 1950s screwball comedy timings, stretching sequences from an U.S. western scenario over boats chasing in the watered channels of Venice, Italy to Northern African, near-orient-splendoring "Alexandria" desert locations with Turkish-owned World-War-One tank vehicle's accelerating through open range territory, pursuing "Indiana Jones" getting his hands dirty in mud and dust to find the "Holy Grail" for a rich all-too-remote business man, performed visciously, double-cross-playing by actor Julian Glover, when Spielberg retrieves high-pitch excellence beat work from a perfecty-received Hollywood movie screenplay by Jeffrey Boam (1946-2000).Where "The Last Crusade" wins, is not only in the pre-flashing twelve minutes of an young reckless 15-year-old "Indy", given face by star-making struggled acting-youngster River Pheonix (1970-1993), already known for thought-provoking performance in Rob Reiner directed "Stand By Me" (1986), but decisively as well with the elders' humor-inhabited and ease-stroke supporting cast Denholm Elliott (1922-1992) and John Rhys-Davies as reprising Sallah from the original "Indy" story "Raiders of the Lost Ark" (1981), when the third installment of "Indiana Jones" hits U.S. American theatres on May 24th 1989 to a fulminate success with the audiences of just being the ultimate Hollywood adventure movie even after thirty years in perfect balance between state of the art visual effects, acting wheels of splendor throughout any scene, also-thanks to actress Alison Doody, who just matches out Harrison Ford himself with an already infamous "scream-squeeze-quote" in short-lived Berlin visits of the leading cast, when director Steven Spielberg manages in all the entertaining splendor to fill-in a not of Hitchcockian ultra-suspense hostility between "Holy Grail" racing contenders to a movie finish of career-defining "Indiana Jones" challenges between life and death before releasing the audience from a stranglehold of breathtaking thrills."Indiana Jones" finds his peak performance with "The Last Crusade", suitable for any entertainment-loving audience around the world; a movie that surprisingly remains an constant-classic through the ages from now Disney-owned production company Lucasfilm Ltd with George Lucas & Frank Marshall executive producing to let this motion picture become one of Spielberg's greatest achievements in filmmaking.Copyright 2018 Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC
The_Ultimate_Hippo
OK, let me start by saying that I loved the Indiana Jones franchise up until this point. Raiders of the Lost Ark is one of my all time favorite films, I really enjoyed Temple of Doom (not as good as Raiders but still amazing), so I had very high hopes when I saw Last Crusade for the first time as many of my friends said it was the best in the series and I was very excited to see it for the first time and I assumed it was going to be one of the greatest films ever made. Well I was wrong, Last Crusade let me down more than any film I have ever watched. The opening prologue with River Phoenix was a horrible, contrived mess. Indy somehow gets his fear of snakes, his whip, his hat and his scar all in a matter of 10 minutes, River Phoenix while I have not seen any of his other work gave a god awful performance the "this should be in a museum" line makes me cringe every single time. Unfortunately after the opening "1912" sequence it doesn't get any better, Harrison Ford seems bored out of his mind and gives an incredibly dull performance, I didn't care much for him in Return of the Jedi and I don't care for him in this either. The supporting cast doesn't do any better, Alison Doody is a laughably atrocious and bland actress , Denholm Elliot is back however he is so different from how he was in Raiders that he might as well be a completely different character, and oh my god he is a complete moron who has been reduced to comic relief and to me is the "Jar Jar Binks" of the Indiana Jones franchise (yes I realize this came first). Julian Glover was an amazing Bond villain, I loved him in For Your Eyes Only and in his brief appearance in Empire Strikes Back, I don't know what happened here, again he gave an incredibly boring performance, he wasn't the least bit threatening and gave another terrible performance and then there is Sean Connery, one of the greatest actors ever who has basically been reduced to a bumbling idiot. John Williams score is a complete letdown, one thing that made Temple of Doom so exciting was the music, especially the scene where Indy freed the kids, which gets me pumped up every time. The score of Last Crusade is pretty boring. The plot is simply a rehash of Raiders, while Temple of Doom was not as good as Raiders I do respect it for trying to do something different. I felt the plot of Return of the Jedi was way too similar to A New Hope and I can't give this one a pass either. However what really disappoints me the most about this film is the tone, yeah it is not dark or gritty anymore like the first two were, it is very campy, childish and silly. There is nothing suspenseful about Last Crusade it is pretty much a comedy, a really bad comedy while I'm at it. Yes the first two had funny moments, but they both had dark, witty humor which worked very well. The comedy in Last Crusade is pre-school humor, my evidence: There is a Mickey Mouse joke in an Indiana Jones film!!! After watching the opening of the Ark and the sacrifice scene in the previous two films I never thought we would have jokes about Mickey Mouse but here we are. The film is also riddled with plot holes, there is a moment where Indy and his father are stranded in the middle of Nazi Germany and in the very next scene they are in Hatay (present day Turkey) which is at least 1000 miles away with no explanation!This film disappointed me on every level, the only redeeming quality this film has is yes Walter Donavan's death is kind of cool but it lasts a total of maybe 15 seconds and out of a 2 hour movie that is simply not going to cut it. I cannot watch this film in one sitting, the last time I watched it it took me at least a week to finish because I had to keep turning it off because it was so incredibly cringe worthy. This movie is Batman and Robin level of bad except a film like Batman and Robin is at least the kind of movie you can laugh at and have a good time with, Last Crusade doesn't even rise to that level.OK obviously I don't recommend this movie, go watch Raiders or Temple of Doom, or even Crystal Skulls (yes I said it). Last Crusade just depresses me as it shows a once great franchise with a lot of potential hit rock bottom. I'd give this a zero out of 10 if I could.
