Indy and the critics of doom 
NOT CRYSTAL CLEAR: Harrison Ford has many lines that don't work, says one poster of the latest Indiana Jones movie. -- PHOTO: AP
NEW YORK - The fourth Indiana Jones movie has been hit by damning Internet reviews despite director Steven Spielberg's efforts to keep it under a shroud of secrecy.
Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull, starring Harrison Ford, is not supposed to be seen until its May 18 premiere at the Cannes film festival. It opens on May 22.
Spielberg has been keeping a tight lid on the movie with an orchestrated media campaign and he customarily avoids leaky test screenings.
But the movie was seen at an exhibitors' screening last week in Los Angeles and two critical reviews have been posted on film website aintitcoolnews.com, said The New York Times.
A poster who called himself ShogunMaster Rife gave details on the movie and said: 'This is the Indiana Movie that you were dreading.'
He said the movie lacked tension, adding: 'There was not a single moment that I thought our hero Mr Jones was in any sort of peril or even significant inconvenience.
'In most cases, you were so many steps ahead of the characters that it was really just an arduous wait for them to get through it.'
On Ford, he said: 'He has a few lines that work and a million that don't.'
Another fan, Languatron's Bane, responded with a less critical but less than sparkling appraisal, saying: 'Ironically, the problem is that Lucas, Spielberg and Ford are trying far too hard to give everyone what they think that they want.
'Look! It's the Ark! Look! It's Marion! Look! It's not the mileage, it's the years! Everyone's just treading water in this thing.'
However, a third reviewer called the movie 'very good', praising 'the Spielberg magic'.
Meanwhile, actor John Hurt, who plays a colleague to Ford's Indiana, has poured disdain on the film and executive producer George Lucas.
'It's cops-and-robbers stuff,' he told the Times of London. 'And it's all to make Mr Lucas an extra billion, as if he needs it.'
He said the movie was so secret that he had only five hours to read the script before he signed on.
http://www.straitstimes.com/Free/Sto...ry_236355.html 
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull 
Indy and the critics of doom 
Re: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull 
