CIN3MA

"Get me the f*ck out of this movie."

I’m not going to go into much detail, but I don’t know whether I should disown my cousin for revealing too much of the movie one day before seeing it or hug and kiss him for setting the anti-hype wheels in motion and making the movie-watching experience a pleasant one. Yes, I said it… Hug and kiss my cous.. I mean the new Indiana Jones is very enjoyable and not at all too shabby for a George Lucas-touched piece of work.

Indy is back, and he’s older yet as full of life as ever, and this time the Soviets are after him, led by the ruthless Irina Spalko (Cate Blanchett), looking for the mystical and powerful Crystal Skull in the dangerous regions of South America. Highly intrigued, Indiana himself pursues the out-of-this-world object as well.

On his perilous path, he runs into a couple of surprise individuals. First of all, his son Mutt (Shia LaBeouf)… oops. Was that a spoiler? Sorry, I meant to say that his son’s mother turns out to be Marion (Karen Allen)… oh no, is that another slip? What’s gotten into me? It must be the big-ass alien ship that explodes out of the earth and flies away at the end of the movie… Oh, man. Did I do it again?

Seriously, you will still enjoy the movie regardless of the spoiler crap I spurted out up there. It is adventurous with all the meaning of the word, and it induces a couple of genuine laughs here and there, and finally the jungle chase is phenomenal, where Russian soldiers and the Indy posse are jumping from one rushing jeep to another, while the camera is turning and hovering through the dense shrubs with no stop signs in the horizon. CGI heaven? Perhaps. But overall, the new Indiana Jones movie is a good one.