Watched Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, because I thought I hadn't on the big screen years ago, which proves that this, to me, was the most forgettable episode of them all. As usual it is an exciting carnival ride, with chases, contrived arguments to provide texture to the dialogue, a lot of smashing of walls and floors without the owners' permission, and vehicles that materialize out of nowhere to provide convenient escape for the characters. Sean Connery is here as Indie's father--and River Phoenix as the young Indie (what a great loss he was to the world of movies, for he was, indeed, a most beautiful young man).

This episode is about the quest for the Holy Grail. It was fun to regress to the age of 13 and enjoy this movie. I recall that, when this movie showed, it was on or about the time that battered, distressed, leather portfolios came into vogue. It was also during this time that my sister Sylvia sent me a cruciform-sword pendant from Australia, and I now realize that this was the movie behind it.

In the end those chases became quite tiresome, like a trite video game. Cinematography is the only substance of this series. And the fact that it made Harrison Ford forever young and immortal, with or without the Holy Grail.