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Avg. Critic Score: 65 out of 100 Generally favorable reviews Metascore® based on all critic reviews
Information for Parents:
11 Iffy for 11+
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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 100
    San Francisco Chronicle | Mick LaSalle

    It's a beautiful machine, thought out and revved up to the last detail, with no other purpose but to delight - and it delights. [24 May 1989, Daily Notebook, p.E1] Read full review

  • 90
    The New York Times |

    Though it cannot regain the brash originality of ''Raiders of the Lost Ark,'' in its own way 'The Last Crusade' is nearly as good, matching its audience's wildest hopes. Read full review

  • 90
    Variety |

    The Harrison Ford-Sean Connery father-and-son team gives Last Crusade unexpected emotional depth, reminding us that real film magic is not in special effects. Read full review

  • 88
    USA Today | Mike Clark

    The relaxed and confident Crusade is the first Jones outing to benefit from actual characterizations. [24 May 1989, Life, p.1D] Read full review

  • 88
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    It is just as well that Last Crusade will indeed be Indy's last film. It would be too sad to see the series grow old and thin, like the James Bond movies. Read full review

  • 80
    Washington Post | Desson Thomson

    Start lining up now, bring a bullwhip -- and maybe some d-Con. Indiana will do the rest. Read full review

  • 75
    Chicago Tribune | Dave Kehr

    Fully up to, as well as virtually indistinguishable from, its predecessors… The guarantee of Indiana Jones is that the pace never varies and the tone never changes; when you've had enough, you can feel free to leave. [24 May 1989, Tempo, p.1] Read full review

  • 75
    Christian Science Monitor | David Sterritt

    Also predictable is the film's simplistic treatment of themes from religion and myth… It's curious that Spielberg and Lucas see these venerated objects not as symbols of divine inspiration but as repositories of a blind, undiscriminating force that can be wielded (like the three wishes from a genie or a magic lamp) by whoever gets their hands on them. [13 June 1989, Arts, p.11] Read full review

  • 60
    Los Angeles Times | Sheila Benson

    You can't roll monstrous boulders straight at audiences any more and have a whole theater-full duck and gasp with fright--and pleasure. We may be plumb gasped out. And although Harrison Ford is still in top form and the movie is truly fun in patches, it's a genre on the wane. [24 May 1989, Calendar, p.6-1] Read full review

  • 40
    Washington Post |

    The first of Spielberg's films to make us feel heavy in our seats, the first to leave us sitting, passive and uninvolved, on the outside. Watching it, you feel that nearly anyone could have directed it. Read full review


Information for Parents
Common Sense Media says Iffy for 11+ Thrilling third Indy actioner hunts for the grail.
What Parents Need to Know Parents need to know that kids will see hand-to-hand combat, action-filled chases and gun fights. Jones Sr. is shot point blank and almost bleeds to death. This movie is best suited for teens, although some intense scenes might disturb more sensitive among them.
  • Families can talk about the effects of the frequent use of cartoonishly evil Nazis as "bad guys" in action movies. Does it trivialize or obscure their real atrocities, especially the Holocaust?
The good stuff
  • message true0 Positive messages: Jones is the typical American anti-hero, a self-interested scoundrel who isn't always a great role model, but whose heart proves to be in the right place.
What to watch for
  • violence false3 Violence: Hand-to-hand combat, action-filled chases and gun fights. Jones Sr. is shot at point blank range and almost bleeds to death.
  • sex false3 Sex: It's insinuated that Indiana and his father had relations with the same woman.
  • language false3 Language: Light swearing.
  • consumerism false0 Consumerism: Part of a series that spun-off many products and a ride at Disneyland.
  • drugsalcoholtobacco false0 Drinking, drugs and smoking: Not an issue

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