Indiana Jones 4: Early Review

[Mike Corey]

1) Agreed with Cavlaw.

2) Regarding Cate Blanchett's performance, since you all are such big fans, I thought I would share this excerpt of David Denby's review from The New Yorker:

The K.G.B. agent Irina Spalko, played by Cate Blanchett, takes off from Lotte Lenya’s slit-eyed Commie menace in “From Russia with Love.” Blanchett wears a full-body flight suit in Soviet gray—drabness turned into fashion by her trim figure—and a rapier hangs from her waist. She enunciates like crazy in Russian-accented English and tilts her cheekbones toward the camera. As is often the case with this actress, she’s the best thing in the picture.

[Ignatius07]

Despite the accent that occasionally fluctuated between Russian-sounding and something else, I actually thought Blanchett was excellently cast and was one of the stronger points of the movie. And other than this aspect, I agree with what most people are saying about IJ4.