A failed movie franchise

Even if it was a flop, it was still curious to see this flick. Honestly, I don't think McConaughey is a bad actor, as a matter of fact, he is now making an interesting come-back (2011-2012) but I have to admit he made some poor choices during the last decade. Anyway, it is pretty obvious that they hoped so bad with this flick that they would get the new Indiana Jones with this... No way ! How dare they compare Matthew McConaughey with the Great Harrison Ford ?!? A sequel was planned but was canceled due to poor box office sales. Indeed, it was a huge (deserved) flop with a reported $100 million dollars loss. Even though there was a nice cast (Matthew McConaughey, Steve Zahn, Penélope Cruz, William H. Macy, Rainn Wilson, Delroy Lindo, Lambert Wilson, I thought the whole thing was really average and not really entertaining. I mean, I'm a huge fan of Indiana Jones, I love these kind of adventure flicks but there is a very difficult balance that you have to find between the action stuff, the humor, the romance and the cheesiness and they obviously they didn't manage to make it work here. To conclude, even though this project had some potential, the whole thing was rather disappointing and it is not really worth a look.

5/10