I hate Indiana Jones too. Silly, juvenile films without any redeeming qualities.

David Koepp isn't bad.

...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.

Connery was the saving grace of Last Crusade, what hurt that film for me was the early part with River Phoenix, he was miscast.

agreed.

but it will still be an overrated peice of boring garbage and all steven spielberg, george lucas whores will still say good things about it.

Frank Darabont would've been sooooo much better.