Much like my other favorite movie trilogy, Back to the Future, the Last chapter of the Indy trilogy takes the movie back to its roots after a dark second chapter.

In The Last Crusade, Indiana Jones is once again hired to search after an artifact with holy powers that is described in the Hebrew bible. This time however, Indiana Jones does not search for the artifact for fortune and glory, but rather because the last man who was in charge with finding it has disappeared: Indy’s father.

A film wouldn’t be an Indy film without great stunts, and The Last Crusade features my favorites of the trilogy: the boat chase scene and the tank scene. The boat chase sequence in particular had me on the edge of my seat, with Indy going head to head (literally) against an outboard motor on a cargo ship.

But it is the chemistry between Sean Connery and Harrison Ford as father and son that makes me love this movie so much. Sean Connery is just adorable in this movie as a professor who is more academic than adventurous. His reactions to the violence going on around him are wonderful. I love the scene when Henry Jones Sr. uses his knowledge of book passages to defeat a Nazi airplane using just an umbrella and a flock of seagulls. After that point, Harrison Ford’s uncanny ability to convey words using just his face are used to great affect here, as you can see a great deal of affection towards his father in Indy’s eyes.

This movie recaptures the fun of the first and leaves the darkness of the second behind. Unfortunately, it does get a bit too repetitive at times.

This is worth watching just to see Sean Connery….