The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Demons of Deception (2007) (V)

User Rating:

6.8/10   

Directors:

René Manzor
Nicolas Roeg

Writers:

Jonathan Hensleigh (Verdun segment) &
George Lucas (story) ...

Release Date:

18 December 2007 (USA)

Genre:

History

Plot:

September, 1916. As Corporal Henri Defense, young Indiana Jones has become a motorcycle courier stationed near the trenches at Verdun...

Plot Keywords:

Mata Hari | Verdun | 1916 | Paris

Cast

Sean Patrick Flanery	...	Indiana Jones (also archive footage)
Ronny Coutteure	...	Remy Baudouin (also archive footage)
Domiziana Giordano	...	Mata Hari (archive footage)
Kenneth Haigh	...	War Minister (archive footage)
Ian McDiarmid	...	Prof. Levi (archive footage)
Jacqueline Pearce	...	Mrs. Annabelle Levi (archive footage)
Sheila Burrell	...	Lady # 1 (archive footage)
Maria Charles	...	Lady #2 (archive footage)
Bernard Fresson	...	Joffre (archive footage)
Jean Rougerie	...	Henri Philippe Petain (archive footage)
Igor De Savitch	...	Robert Nivelle (archive footage)
Cris Campion	...	Lt. Gaston (archive footage)
Francis Lalanne	...	Barc (archive footage)
Jean-Claude Bouillon	...	Mangin (archive footage)
François Bourcier	...	Marat (archive footage)

Runtime:

USA:93 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English | German | French

Color:

Color

Filming Locations:

Barrandov Studios, Prague, Czech Republic

Company:

Amblin Entertainment

Quotes:

Remy Baudouin: I can't believe you actually did that. You could have ended up in front of a firing squad!
Indiana Jones: They'll never figure it out.
Remy Baudouin: But still, you lost your courier's job, and you put yourself back in the mud. You're crazy!
Indiana Jones: It seemed like a good idea at the time. Some men got to live another day.
Remy Baudouin: You were living in the chateau. Warm, dry, close to so much good food. Close to so many beautiful women in the village.
Indiana Jones: Not that village. No, the real women are in Paris, Remy.
Remy Baudouin: Paris. Don't talk about it. What would I give to be in Paris now.
Indiana Jones: Well, we may be there soon.
Remy Baudouin: Don't be stupid.
Indiana Jones: No, I mean it. I just got a letter from a friend of my fathers and he may be able to get us a furlow to Paris.
[...]

Movie Connections:

Edited from "The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles: Paris, October 1916 (#2.16)" (1993)

A weak, soap opera-lite story

After his escape from a German POW castle Indy ends up as a motorcycle courier for the French against the backdrop of the Battle of Verdun. Remy ends up being injured before being sent back into harms way overnight. Indy then decides to sabotage communication between the higher officers to prevent another troop massacre.

Then, on a short leave of action, he and Remy travel to Paris to stay where Indy stays with a friend of his dad's. Almost immediately he is smitten by Mata Hari and drawn into her rather boring web of deceit.

The pyrotechnics are impressive but the fast-moving action of the first half comes to a sudden halt as Indy gets wound-up in the soap opera love story that follows. And what's with the flash-forwards of Mata Hari's death? That made no sense at all.

Definitely the weakest Young Indy yet.