Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull 4K 2008 Ultra HD 2160p

50s. Not so much an old man as a mature cult archaeologist fighting with the Soviets for another artifact - this time for the Crystal Skull. Indiana has to fight the deadly Russian woman Irina Spalko. Marion Ravenwood, Indiana's girlfriend from the first film, will also appear in the film.

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull 4K Review
Indiana appears as he is being pulled out of the trunk, tied up. First, we are shown a hat that has fallen on the grass, then a shadow on the hood of a kind of rounded Ford of the 50s, and then the archaeologist himself - old, gray-haired, terrible, with a characteristic crooked grin on his face, and who at this moment does not applaud - it has no heart and no past.

Then begins the delightful nonsense usual for this series. Almost a regiment of Russians arrives at a military training ground in Nevada to the warehouse of all the paranormal secrets of the United States - in the same place, in a half-rotten box, the Ark of the Covenant has been lying around since the last time. Indy flees from them to an archetypal dummy town in Nevada - a target for nuclear tests, where, of course, a nuclear bomb is detonated directly above him, from which the archaeologist hides in a refrigerator lined with lead. Remember this anecdote? "I'm sitting in the refrigerator" - Lucas and Spielberg clearly remember.

And so on: FBI agents, rainforests, snakes, disgusting insects, quicksand, pyramids in the Amazon jungle, harley races, jeeps and wheel boats, a harvester like in "The Barber of Siberia" plate and wedding before credits. It is not worth retelling the content in more detail - firstly, it is rather absurd, and secondly, one cannot leave the audience completely without surprises. You should also not indulge in a dull enumeration of anachronisms, mistakes and absurdities of this film - there is such a genre, in a real adventure movie, the hero must run under a hail of bullets and remain unharmed, and that he, for example, has a motorcycle with a disc brake, and such in 1957 year has not yet been - so it is, really, triviality.

Here the whole point is this. Indiana Jones is a great fighter, Harrison Ford, a former carpenter, with a slightly saggy face, but in a hat, with a whip and a revolver, jumping and jumping, as if he didn't ... however, let's not talk about age. Although why not, age is the most important thing here. Almost from the first shots - at least from the moment Indy is taken out of the trunk, to the very end, it's like a real roller coaster in which you sit tied and can only squeal with delight. You're ten years old and Indiana Jones has just hit the screens again.

It remains only to ask the question - how much is in this feeling of nostalgia for that Indiana, how much love for fashionable primitive trash, and how much real admiration. Roughly speaking, what will a person who has not seen any of the previous films say about Indiana?

He should be happy. Without any nostalgia for Indiana, and without much love for the fifties, McCarthyism and nuclear testing. It's just that this movie was made with great love for the process and absolutely seriously. Oddly enough, there are still people who believe that adventure films should be made about people, not spider-people. That you need to sculpt real Inca temples from real papier-mâché. That the stuntmen should jump on steel cables that represent leather whips, or even better if the actors perform the stunts themselves. That everything should explode, fly through the air and fall into the abyss. That there should be as little subtext and other hidden meanings in the film as possible. That Cate Blanchett - a KaGeBe bitch, almost Ilsa - should be absolutely asexual, because she traded the feminine in herself for a passion for power and knowledge. That young people can hang any noodles on their ears - as long as you are not really interested in it, in this case the puppy must be forced to leave school and do everything as it should be.
That the movie has to be right - and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is just that. And everything else should not be of interest.

Info Blu-ray
Video
Codec: HEVC / H.265
Resolution: Native 4K (2160p)
HDR: Dolby Vision, HDR10
Original aspect ratio: 2.39:1

Audio
English: Dolby Atmos
English: Dolby Digital 5.1

Subtitles
English SDH, Mandarin (Simplified), Mandarin (Traditional), Danish, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Russian, Finnish, Swedish, Thai, Japanese.