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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade [VHS] | ![Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51C0B1GBQDL._SL160_.jpg) | Director: Steven Spielberg
Actors: Harrison Ford, Sean Connery, Alison Doody, Denholm Elliott, John Rhys-Davies
Studio: Paramount
Category: Video
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Rating:  138 reviews
Sales Rank: 12158
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Full Screen, Dolby, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), German (Original Language), Greek (Original Language)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: VHS Tape
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 127 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 3.8 x 1.1
ISBN: 630157401X
UPC: 097363185932
EAN: 9786301574013
ASIN: 630157401X
Theatrical Release Date: May 24, 1989
Release Date: October 26, 1999
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The third episode in Steven Spielberg's rousing Indiana Jones saga, this film recaptures the best elements of Raiders of the Lost Ark while exploring new territory with wonderfully satisfying results. Indy is back battling the Nazis, who have launched an expedition to uncover the whereabouts of the Holy Grail. And it's not just Indy this time--his father (played with great acerbic wit by Sean Connery, the perfect choice) is also involved in the hunt. Spielberg excels at the kind of extended action sequences that top themselves with virtually every frame; the best one here involves Indy trying to stop a Nazi tank from the outside while his father is being held within. For good measure, Spielberg reveals (among other things) how Indy got his hat, the scar on his chin, and his nickname (in a prologue that features River Phoenix as the young Indiana). --Marshall Fine
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 INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE July 29, 2010
PATSY (KINGS MOUNTAIN,NORTH CAROLINA,USA)
EXCELLENT CONDITION,GOT PRODUCT IN A TIMELY MANNER WOULD DO BUSINESS WITH THIS SELLER AGAIN THANK YOU
 *Indiana Jones Theme Commence* July 17, 2010
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This movie is not as great as Raiders. Lemme just tell you that right now. Raiders had the edge, and I'm not just saying that because of freshness. Raiders was NOT my first Indiana Jones film. So, what do I think of this film? Well, it is better than Crystal Scull and Temple of Doom, because it keeps the audience into the film. It doesn't base itself completely on cliche, and still understands exactly what the audience wants in an Indiana Jones film. The fact of the matter is, Indy needs certain cliches but not all action cliches. And if you don't know by now, the whole franchise is built around cliches. It's based off B-Movies, Action Serials and James Bond. Which is awesome, cause Sean Connery is Indy's dad.
The fact that a movie based around cliche can keep the audience interested big time is big time. I say this, because it is an epic feet. Just goes to show both the audience loves what you love and you can deliver what they love. Spielberg, you are a genius. I say, this movie really knows how to understand what the audience wants out of an Indiana Jones film. Oh but, what is? A treasure, and this time, the biggest treasure, The Holy Grail. Indiana Jones and his whip. Animals. Scarce humor. Plenty of action. The theme music. And, action cliches. What I really like about the beginning of this film is not the transition from young to old Indy, but just the scene with Young Indy. He's been at this ever since he was a lad. In 1912 mind you. Utah, that's where I am right now (on vacation mind you.)
Unfortunately, I can't say I can promise more than ramblings in this review. But I can say, it was awesome. Everything just comes to a great tied knot to finish off the film. However, I do say that Kingdom is an official entry, but more like an epilogue than a chapter. So, here I am to defend Kingdom of the Crystal Scull. People said that aliens don't belong in an Indiana Jones movie, did anyone do there homework? Did anybody know that Crystal Scull is supposed to be Alien sculls? And even if they didn't watch the documentaries, The Mayans! They're always associated with aliens! The Fridge scene, dude, going off a tank 30 feet in the air and surviving isn't exactly realistic either. But, I guess...nah.
There is a certain style of illustration that appeared in the boys' adventure magazines of the 1940s - in those innocent June 23, 2010
...publications that have been replaced by magazines on punk lifestyles and movie monsters. The illustrations were always about the same. They showed a small group of swarthy men hovering over a treasure trove with greedy grins on their bearded faces, while in the foreground, two teenage boys peered out from behind a rock in wonder and astonishment. The point of view was always over the boys' shoulders; the reader was invited to share this forbidden glimpse of the secret world of men.
"Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" begins with just such a scene; director Steven Spielberg must have been paging through his old issues of Boys' Life and Thrilling Wonder Tales, down in the basement.
As I watched it, I felt a real delight, because recent Hollywood escapist movies have become too jaded and cynical, and they have lost the feeling that you can stumble over astounding adventures just by going on a hike with your Scout troop.
Spielberg lights the scene in the strong, basic colors of old pulp magazines. When the swarthy men bend over their discovery, it seems to glow with a light of its own, which bathes their faces in a golden glow. This is the kind of moment that can actually justify a line like It's mine! All mine! - although Spielberg does not go so far.
One of the two kids behind the boulder is, of course, the young Indiana Jones. But he is discovered by explorers plundering an ancient treasure, and escapes just in the nick of time. The sequence ends as an adult claps a battered fedora down on Indiana's head, and then we flash forward to the era of World War II.
The opening sequence of this third Indiana Jones movie is the only one that seems truly original - or perhaps I should say, it recycles images from 1940s pulps and serials that Spielberg has not borrowed before. The rest of the movie will not come as a surprise to students of Indiana Jones, but then how could it? The Jones movies by now have defined a familiar world of death-defying stunts, virtuoso chases, dry humor and the quest for impossible goals in unthinkable places.
When "Raiders of the Lost Ark" appeared, it defined a new energy level for adventure movies; it was a delirious breakthrough. But there was no way for Spielberg to top himself, and perhaps it is just as well that "Last Crusade" will indeed be Indy's last film. It would be too sad to see the series grow old and thin, like the James Bond movies.
Even in this third adventure, some of the key elements are recycled from "Raiders." This time, Indy's quest is to find the Holy Grail, the cup Jesus Christ is said to have used at the Last Supper.
(To drink from the cup is to have eternal youth.) The Holy Grail reminds us of the Ark of the Covenant in the first film, and in both cases the chase is joined by Nazi villains.
The new element this time is how Spielberg fills in some of the past of the Jones character. We learn his real name (which I would not dream of revealing here), and we meet his father, Professor Henry Jones, who is played by Sean Connery on exactly the right note.
Like the fathers of classic boys' stories, Dr. Jones is not a parent so much as a grown-up ally, an older pal who lacks three dimensions because children are unable to see their parents in that complexity. I kept being reminded of the father in the Hardy Boys books, who shook his head and smiled at the exploits of his lovable lads and only rarely "expressed concern" or "cautioned them sternly." Since the Hardy Boys were constantly involved, at a tender age, with an endless series of counterfeiters, car thieves, kidnap rings, Nazi spies and jewel thieves, their father's detachment seemed either saintly or mad - and Connery has fun with some of the same elements.
Harrison Ford is Indiana Jones again this time, and what he does seems so easy, so deadpan, that few other actors could maintain such a straight and credible presence in the midst of such chaos. After young Indy discovers his life's mission in the early scenes, the central story takes place years later, when Dr. Jones (the world's leading expert on the Holy Grail) is kidnapped by desperados who are convinced he knows the secret of where it is now hidden.
He does. And Indy, working from his father's notebook, follows a trail from America to the watery catacombs beneath Venice, and then to the deserts of the Holy Land, where there is a sensational chase scene involving a gigantic Nazi armored tank.
He is accompanied on his mission by Dr. Elsa Schneider (Alison Doody), an art historian he meets in Venice. But the character is a disappointment after the fire of Karen Allen in the first movie, and even the sultriness of Kate Capshaw in the second.
Spielberg devises several elaborate set-pieces, of which I especially liked the rat-infested catacombs and sewers beneath Venice.
(I tried not to remember that Venice, by definition, has no catacombs.) The art direction looks great in a scene involving a zeppelin, and an escape from the airship by airplane. And the great tank in the desert is fearsome and convincing.
If there is just a shade of disappointment after seeing this movie, it has to be because we will never again have the shock of this material seeming new. "Raiders of the Lost Ark," now more than ever, seems a turning point in the cinema of escapist entertainment, and there was really no way Spielberg could make it new all over again.
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.
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade May 9, 2010
Thomas R. Perrochon (NOVA, USA)
I knew that it would be good because it had Sean Connery on the cover, that clinched it. I also knew the Indiana Jones Franchise was enjoyable so I felt safe in terms of buying this. The movie was good and I have no regrets.
Add in Sean Connery, and you've got the best Indy film yet April 8, 2010
Eric S. Kim (Southern California)
If I had to choose a favorite Indy film, this is the one I would select immediately. The Last Crusade is without a doubt the best Indy film of all, even surpassing Raiders. It has the same formula as Raiders (the Nazis are here, Marcus & Sallah return, a Biblical artifact is being searched, etc.), but it has more action, more humor, and also a welcome addition to the entire franchise, which is Sean Connery as Henry Jones. Connery is perfect as Indy's father, and the chemistry between the two main leads is really enjoyable to watch. A few of the special effects shots may look a bit dated, but who cares? Last Crusade is the ultimate Indy film. Temple of Doom may be too dark, Crystal Skull may be too silly, Raiders is perfectly fine, but Last Crusade is the one that has the most. And it does its job really well: it entertains us in the most excellent way possible. A great action-adventure, indeed.
Grade: A
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