I will get around to reviewing Indiana Jones someday, I don't feel like it at the moment and I have to be in a mood to write reviews. That being said, I am particularly pissed off right now so its a good time to review:
General consensus: I enjoyed it.
There were interesting faces in it, a good looking cast, gotta say. That's probably what it's best known for considering it doesn't seem to be super popular.
Produced by the people who made Underworld so its bound to have crazy action, which it did.
My problem wasn't with the fact that the main characters had powers, or the fact that the bad guy was a psychopath, it was the poor screen writing. In most cases it was bullshit, like the final confrontation between lead good guy Caleb and bad guy Chase, Chase threatens the life of Caleb's family, girl and friends and he merely responds, with NO emotion with a simple "I'll never will you my power" all the while the place they are standing is burning, Chase is screaming, and Caleb's girl is practically on fire. Some of the lines where so forced it hurt at times.
The constant ass-kicking of Chase was bull too. This guy just wrecks everyones shit, all the time. I disliked the fact they threw energy balls like Dragon Ball Z, these clear things that looked like bubbles. No one EVER dodged them. Caleb seemed to always be on his back of stomach after getting walloped. He was always thrown into the air, it seemed like both characters had two moves for the 15 minute long battle sequence: bubbles or silly hand movements that send people flying. What's funny about that is during every fight the characters squared off like they were in some martial arts fight but always resorted to bubbles and throwing people in the air.
The final fight was too long.
Get it over with, lets see Caleb kick ass.
Other then those gems, the movie was interesting. I did see a lot of completely useless stuff, parts that seemed there to merely extend the length of the film. The rest of the cast was cool, the stuff they did and the effects were wicked, like the police chase through the woods at night was wicked and hilarious. Everything until the end was well done. The story of the characters powers was believable even.
Soooo.... um, I give it 7 7/11's out of 11. No lol, I suggest it be seen by all who enjoy action movies. I hate witches and crazy power shit, but this was cool, the characters were likable, it was all around a great movie, really under rated.
CoDy
(coming soon, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and Fight Club)
