Her sword fight atop moving jeeps is spectacular, the highlight of the movie. Her Russian accent seems to have been (deliberately) borrowed from the NATASHA character on the old Bullwinkle cartoons. ![]() ![]() The real female lead went to Cate Blanchett, who understood the comic-book nature of her role as Irina Spalko, a sword-fighting KGB-dominatrix, and plays it to the hilt. The rest relied on basic "Indiana Jones attitude" to amuse, and that didn't impress (or amuse) me much. Too old to be witty? He had one funny line, at the beginning. Well, Indy doesn't have much wit this time around. ![]() ![]() but I kept remembering untalented Kate Capshaw (age 54) from the second Indy movie, and wondering why it took em so long to bring back our homegirl. I suppose I should be happy that Karen Allen (age 56) is back on screen with Harrison Ford (age 68).
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