Some Soviets are in the US in pursuit of aliens. A youngster needs Professor Jones's help to rescue his mother and his stepfather from those villains. A crystal skull with unexplained powers must be brought along with them to the Amazon forest, where a mysterious city is said to exist.
The reencounter of father and son, which never happened in Broken Flowers, here does (with the mother's blessing). Their quest mirrors that theme: aliens are seens as fathers of mankind. One might see fatherhood as an allegory of authorship, a problem of the whole Indiana Jones series: the director is the same in the four films, but the characters are not his brainchildren. The critical output addressing the issue of personality disorder in commercial cinema, stemming from divided authorship, is still meager. In this particular instance, the symptoms of neurosis appear in certain aspects of the plot, for example the villainization of communists is concomitant with the villainization of communist paranoia.
Rating: 33
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