In general, adventure movies provide an easy, enjoyable watch, giving audiences a chance to forget their everyday lives as the protagonist climbs yet another treacherous mountain or cleverly wins yet another sword fight. However, there are a handful of films from the genre that simply deserve more acclaim than the run-of-the-mill adventure movie.
For instance, the publication Colliderrecently published a list of "the 10 best adventure movies in film history," which spotlighted beloved titles like 2024's Dune: Part Two, the 2001 animated filmSpirited Away, The Empire Strikes Back from 1980, 1985's Back to the Future, and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, released in 2003. Collider put the 1989 film Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade at the ranking's top spot. According to the publication, the third Indiana Jones film is a thoroughly enthralling movie, elevated by Indiana Jones' (Harrison Ford) dynamic with his father, Henry Jones Sr., played by Sean Connery.
The Steven Spielberg-directed film has a score of 84 percent on Rotten Tomatoes and made a total of $197,171,806 with a budget of $48,000,000, per Box Office Mojo.
In an interview about the making of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Spielberg said it was his idea to focus on Indiana and his father in the movie. He recalled having a conversation with George Lucas, the creator of Indiana Jones, about what he envisioned for the third movie, which was ultimately written by Jeffrey Boam.
"With Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, I wanted to flesh out Indy's relationship with his father. I said, 'Here's a time we can really do a really good character study of who gave birth to this guy.' I said, 'George, let's see who inspired him. Let's do a father-son story,'" said the director, now 79. "George said, 'Is that going to be conducive with the Grail search?' I said, 'The search for the father is the search for the Holy Grail.' And if they're estranged by bitterness of experience, different ideologies or different approaches to archeology, the father is more professorial than Indy ever was, the father's more critical of Indy. So, I basically built up this relationship between Indy and his dad."
Spielberg also said he immediately knew he wanted Connery for the role, as his iconic '60s version of James Bond shares quite a few similarities with Indy.
"Then when it came down to casting it, then I said, 'George, there's only one person that can play Indy's father. That's James Bond. The original and the greatest James Bond, Sean Connery.' So we went for broke, went after Sean, and fortunate for us and the movie, Sean said that he would do it," said Spielberg.
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