by zEke
Have you ever tried to whistle blend together the indiana jones, star wars and superman main themes? Neither have I.
Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) is asked by Walter Donovan (Julian Glover) to go after the Holy Grail after his father vanished while searching for a clue to its location himself. Donovan owns an incomplete stone tablet that might hold the key to the location of the chalize and points them in the right direction. Jones accepts and travels to Venice with Dr. Marcus Brody (Denholm Elliot) where he meets Dr. Elsa Schneider (Alison Doody) and will discover that they are not the only ones interested in the location of the Holy Grail and that the Nazi army are also after it.
The prologue disassociates itself from those from the previous adventures. It goes back in time and introduce a young Indiana Jones played by once the most promising actor of his generation, River Phoenix. Other than that, the formula is the same successful one. One getaway after another. And I do not get tired of them. Again the script is just an excuse to link them together in a somehow meaningful way. This time they avoid the darkness of indiana jones and the temple of doom (1984) and substitute it by a tone that might be too jokey for some but amusing, anyways. They can always argue that they were experimenting with the comical side of the character. And by them I mean, of course, Steven Spielberg and George Lucas, friends and American residents.
The title of the third issue of the adventures of Indiana Jones refers to the last of the crusades undertaken to find the Holy Grail and was thought as well as an end to the trilogy. Now we know that even though that was probably the case almost twenty years ago, it is not anymore.
It delivers what everyone expects, really, it does.
For the deadhours of those who do not care about seeing more or less the same over and over again.
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