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Synopsis:
The
movie starts off in 1913 Utah, twenty three years before the
main story takes place, in a sequence starring the late
River Phoenix as the young Indiana Jones. I loved this
part of the movie, as it gives lots of exposition as to how
Indy became the way he is in the 1930s. We learn how
he got the scar on his chin, where he got his hat, how his
fear of snakes came about, and his tenuous connection with
his father, Henry Jones. Cut to the present day, and Indy is
sent off on a search throughout Italy and the Mediterranean,
on a quest for the Holy Grail -- and for his father, who
disappeared while looking for it. Along with the
quasi-senile Marcus Brody, he meets his guide around the
Mediterranean, Elsa Schneider, who turns out to have more
under her sleeve than first appears. Indy is taken to
a castle where his father is held captive. They escape
and run around Europe trying to stop the Nazis from getting
to the grail before they do, all the while bickering like a
great comedy team. |
