American films have alot to answer for. And yet they never answer.

Boycott this film!

Sandra Shevey, London, UK

Well, the big irony is that the film depicts "Communists" killing a bunch of natives, when in fact they never did such a thing but rather they were helping natives to fight against the Western powers who were actually the ones killing them.

Jeff, Denver, USA

I saw the film with my wife and young sons and we all really enjoyed it. I thought that everyone involved did a terrific job. Cate Blanchett - WOW!!

Merlin Ward, London,

Aside from the controversial portrayal of the Russian-Communists, I think we are missing a much larger concern. They did a terrible job in how they portrayed aliens in the movie, and as a result, Harrison Ford has been asked to never enter outer space. Aliens across the universe are boycotting it.

Matt, Chicago, USA

By the way, the Ruskies werent happy with Ford playing the K-19 captain. I mean, he pertrayed the guy who were ready to defect! Get your facts straight, there, Tony.

Roman , Columbus, OH, USA

"Boo hoo hoo," go Russian communists over insults.
"Boo hoo hoo," go Western filmgoers, over their precious fictional character.
Thankfully, it's a poor movie, even when compared to its predecessors, and should probably be treated as such. Better a poor movie insult Soviet war dead then a good one.

K Morel, Atlanta, USA

If it wasn`t for the sacrifices made by the Russian People during WW2, Hitler would have certainly one. Whatever your opinions about Communism, it seems that `Red-bashing` will make a reappearance in the near future - coming to a world near you!

david, portsmouth,

Seriously why are we acting dramatically over this? It's just a film and what I heard of a really good one. There's absolutely nothing to get all tense for. Propaganda films a definitely not entertaining period and Russia is going insane over this? More proof that small things cause chaos.

Tommy, Wellingbourgh, England

Oh Come On! It's only an entertainment movie! Harry and Cate are "actors" not politicians or any parliamentary spokesman! Ooh...maybe they are afraid that their teens and children start thinking and revolving the past. Maybe not the same past learned in their school.

Dany, São Paulo, Brazil

Can't get why people were insulted... it's just a kind of a fiction movie! And the story, the image of communists have been of course exaggerated. I liked the film, the plot and the way how Ford and Blanchett played it. Some moments were especially funny: playing Russians is not an easy task =)

Peter, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

No one would care if he was British and it was set in the 1890s.

Sheltz, Northampton, UK

Which is still with us, the USA or the USSR? Get over yourselves guys.

Communism never worked and never will.

Andy, Musselburgh, UK

The communism is a bad ideology, extreme capitalism too. The booth sistems do to the people very damage. They don't let be, They just become you in poor devils. Is right that is just a film, You can see It or not, I saw the Madonna's Evita film and I can tell that It was despreciable.

Ernesto Colagioia, Rosario, Argentina

Indy's work is an insult to the Reds? And what is the Reds murder of 70 million innocent people to Russia?

eugene, heidelberg, germany

I think the Communists should apologize to Harrison Ford for breaking his heart and crushing his dreams.

gb, Austin, USA

As word gets out that this flick is the weakest installment of the Indiana Jones franchise, any controversy to drum up a little business will be the best thing Spielberg & Lucas could have hoped for.

Cinna, Cincinnati, US

What a load of Rubbish.
It Is a film.
The sins of the father do not transgress to the son.
Political insecurity seems to be motivating such comments.
Can the world not learn to get along?

Alex, Cambridge, UK

All films are political and all films are propaganda.

karen, cupertino, USA

"... You will be beaten and despised.” - Open letter from
the Communist Party’s Ideology Committee.

Easy there comades, we're the ones who don't do irony.

R Thomas, Texas, USA

It is true that the US has been very critical of itself in cinema. But if you look carefully, in the end, the good ones solving the situation are always americans. If it is only a film, no to take seriously: when are we going to see a film where the terrorists are americans?

albert, Spain,

So the communist party want to to deny Harrison and Kate of their "right to enter the country". Their right? Well woop de bloody do. And some how life goes on. Its a fictional character on a fictional treasure hunt and as with all works of fiction - NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH REAL LIFE.

Lawrence, Milton Keynes, UK

Wonder if when a film comes out portraying Americans as thugs in Iraq the US commentators here still say "get over it, it's only a film"........

Aj, Svalbard,

Whilst not supporting the communists' response, I note that the reaction to their objections is rather different to that when Britons were complaining about U571 and it's portrayal of history.

Just remember children, like Uncle Josef, Hollywood is free to dictate what *actually* happened.

Paul M, Puerto del Rosario, Spain

Regardless of the alleged politics of the film, this is no reason to boycott the film. Let people make their own minds up.

In any event America has been far more critical of itself in cinema than it has been of any other country, through its examination of slavery, vietnam, watergate, iraq etc

muhunthan paramesvaran, london,

Yeah, communism is rubbish and the regime really committed crimes. But holy sht, to make a movie showing communists trying to conquer the world with the help of a skull? The Nazis are known for their interest for the paranormal, no question about it. But the Soviets? Doesn't make any sense.

Pawel, Minsk, Belarus

Next up, the damage done by The Black Adder.

Stephen , New York, USA

Mass murders??? Thats what we hear from Americans, who were the only nation to use nuclear bombs against innocent civilians? how ironic...

Pc, Moscow,

Kirill, with all due respect, we do know that the Cold War is over. However, the film is set in 1950's, when it was very much on. Are we not to set films in past eras and during past conflicts because we just might offend the descendants of the participants?

Lili, Chicago, USA

To David in Richmond - As a Nanticoke Indian of the very same tribe of our reknowned ancestor Pocahantes... It is no wonder that so many are clueless about who we are and the real lives of historical figures? Surely its possible to tell the truth, ridiculous talking racoon or not!

Lisa, London, United Kingdom

Russians are very serious people, and they don't like Hollywood portraying them in a poor light. We British have had grunts about Hollywood portraying British WW2 incidents as minor, the enigma machine and the German U boat was the last one. But Hey, if its making money, who cares about truth !

Phil de Buquet, Newport,

Nobody takes the party leaders seriously. How can they? They were the ones who blamed Chernobyl on a couple of dying technicians. They claimed the Kursk was out of sight and beyond help, when it was in shallow water, the sailors dying inside. Life is cheap in Russia; the party even cheaper.

iain carstairs, bedford, uk

Seems some people need a bit of a refresher in the concepts of "pulp serial fiction" or maybe just "fiction" in general.

Eric, Minneapolis, USA

Come on people,it's movie for crying outloud!If it bothers the Communist Party so much,then the truth may be just under the surface...oh,it's agreat movie too-I just watched it a few hours ago

Dan, Jacksonville, USA

It may not be "politically correct" to have depicted the soviets in the manner that was portrayed in the film but first and foremost you have to remember it is a film and as much as I love the Indy franchise this film, at best, was a way to have closure for a beloved character.

Guy, New York,

By the way fellows, how can we talk about the situation with Russia or in Russia or with the russians' reaction on something while many of you still think that there's a communist government in power in Russia?

Pawel, Minsk, Belarus

Im surprised that the Germans have never objected, given Spielbergs obsession with dragging up the past , reminding us how evil the Nazis were in 3 out of the 4 films. They are more prominent than any other political group.

patrick, The Hague, netherlands

i am no communist but i will go nowhere near a cinema in Moscow while this rubbish is playing. they won't get a single ruble from me that's for sure. i think Russia needs to start making its own movies like Indiana or Bond series with good Russian guys kicking the behinds of evil yanks and brits lol

Max Pronin, Moscow,

That's sort of thing gangster regimes always say, isn't it?

Geoff, Sydney,

It's a movie - not a documentary! Documentaries dont rack in hundreds of millions of dollars world wide on opening weekend. Funny how Russian gov. officials cant distinguish the diffrence in the two. But i guess you dont have much say in how you want to tell a story in a communist government.

Matt, Austin, Texas

All what they are saying is a sheer nonsense, an advertisment but nonetheless stop portraying us as thugs as almost in every movie. The Cold War is really over, guys.

Kirill, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

This is a movie for entertainment- not a documentary! Documentaries dont land hundreds of millions of dollars on their opening weekend worldwide. Its funny how government officials cant distinguish that fine line. But then in a comm. government, i guess you are not free to tell a story.

Matt, Austin, Texas

This "controversy" reminds me of a similar one involving the Disney film 'Pocahontas". Native American groups criticized the film because it did not depict their culture accurately. Disney responded by saying "the film featured a talking raccoon, it was not meant to be historically accurate".

David, Richmond, VA, USA

Actually if the film does encourage Russian youth to study the nightmare of Stalin's empire, not only for Russia but the whole of eastern Europe, perhaps it should be compulsory viewing in all Russian schools!

Ian Bannen, Oxford, UK

Many of the comments here suggest that the movie goers can distinguish history from fiction. But what if the only history lessons they get are from the movie houses, showing American fares?

H. Vu, Ottawa, Canada

I guess the old cliche,"It takes one to know one", maybe is not old at all. Propagandists complaining about propagander, who has the better fiction ? It's mostly envy.
Being realistic, which is the better country in which to live? America is hardly perfect, but then which country is?

Peter Richardson., Kippens, Canada

Can everyone stop using capital letters as a means of emphasising a word. An exclamation mark is more than enough.

Thanks!

Brett , Bern,

I hate to burst Andreas' notion that "During the two world wars, started by right wing maniacs, more than 110 million died!" Actually both WWI and WWII sprung from roots deep in socialist/Marxist political theory, especially Nazism. Read Goldberg's "Liberal Fascism" for some insight.

Mark, Colorado Springs, USA

it's a film
made up if the reds can't understand that they have no hope.
their comments just make them look silly.
and to the archaeological you have not always been so worried about ethics in the past and this is set in the past. You still seem to think nothing of digging up the dead today.

knight, aberdeen, uk

Andreas,

Which part of the World Wars was "religious"? The shooting of the Archduke? The Schlieffen Plan? The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact? I understand how the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution were government-inspired.

Do you think Jenkins' ear was religious too?

Kevin, London,

Communists were the worse mass murderers in the history of mankind. There is nothing to be "nostalgic" about, as one poster wrote, unless you are "nostalgic" about mass murder.

Jeffrey Imm, DC, USA

for the sake of god(if there is one), it is a film only---although every human being on earth realise that the true boss of Hollywood---the government, it is a mere film with funny plot, reasonable people should be capable to ignore it from real-life propaganda.

alex00809, Beijing, China

Comnist govrnent R a bunch of corrupted people ... look at how conditonned Burmese citizens R minipulated by the military heads from 1 day 2 another price increase 200% for the sake of forbidence and condition ! they are scared of talking their opion at the risk of their lives it used same in Russia

Philippe Dury, Paris, France

A Boy`s Own Adventure. Completely unbelievable..

margie , victoria, australia

Wow, "running dogs". Say what you like about Communists, at least they had a good turn of phrase. Ah, the nostalgia.

Kay Tie, York, UK

For the head of the World Archaeological Congress to condemn the movie because the actions of Indiana Jones are not consistent with those of a true archaeologist is just plain ridiculous. I don’t think ‘Indiana Jones and the Delicate Extraction and Restoration of the Crystal Skull’ sounds too fun!

Adam Williams, London, UK

@jayil, I do believe Hollywood hasn't always portrayed Arabs in a bad light. Do you remember Rambo 3, the Taliban were on Rambo's side? They even dedicate the movie in the end credits to the Taliban.

Jonathan Jk Morris, Swansea, United Kingdom

> running dogs of the CIA

Wow! Haven't heard that one in a while...

Jim Burks, Memphis, USA

I've seen comments by people stating that communism killed 100 million people! Wow people you're so brain washed! Do you know how many more millions of people have died because of religion? During the two world wars, started by right wing maniacs, more than 110 million died! That's only in 10 year!

Andreas, nottingham,

David, Weymouth,

He didn't insult races - just governments! And although not explicitly about civilians in Palestine, I thought Munich (about the 1972 games, the killing of Israeli athletes and the killing of the perpetrators by Mossad) was pretty neutral, and barely pro-Israel at all.

Cameron, London,

Considering that communist regimes have killed more people than Nazism, it's amazing that communist parties are still allowed to exist and promote this ideology. And Harrison Ford makes communism look bad? Give me a break.

Tiina, Tallinn, Estonia

Its just a movie, but from the comments here its time for Indiana to take on the Palistinian terrorists.

Arnold Ward, Weybridge, Surrey, UK

Communism has only killed over 100 million people worldwide. But no, we shouldn't be allowed to mock Communists, how dare we.

Sherry, Redruth, Cornwall

Good, it's about time people spoke out against the communist-socialist conspiracy.

Kris, Fife, Scotland

Tracey -Australia -

It's not only the Russians who don't recognise fiction.
This is absolute fiction too -

"You would think in a day and age where governments allow the history of the Holocaust to be removed from schooling because it 'offends'," -

It's based on a fake chain e-mail.

W. Duff, Aberdeen,

Hollywood trying to depict all other people except for Americans as being evil and corrupt??? Never!!!!

Taz, Hampshire, England

I thought it was not possible to "slander" the communist Russia of the 1950s, noting that it remains the bloodiest dictatorship in human history (with the possible exception of the red Chinese). The party leaders should retire to the dustbin of history with any other remnants of collectivism.

B Dalcher, Hitchin Hertfordshire,

don't know much about the film but the soldier strutting his stuff in your picture could show the Tiller Girls a thing or two !!!

Richard, Bangor, Wales UK

Looks like spielberg can add the russians to the list of races he has offended. After the chinese of course. He still remains quiet on the civilian deaths in the middle east caused by the israelis. Wheres his conscience now?

David, Weymouth, Dorset

Hollywood has always vilified Arabs. When the time came to make use of this brainwashing (during Iraq/Afghan wars) the American public voted twice for Mr Bush/war mongers without hesitation because A-rabs have always been "evil". The Russian propangada has now begun.

jayil, london, uk

That method of marcing is no more rediculous than the English slow marsh. Both are equally hilarious.

Harry Freudenberg, Leicester,

Maybe you should sue him since he hurt your feelings! ITS A MOVIE PEOPLE.

James, Los Angeles,

IT'S JUST A MOVIE - I know this, my children know this. You would think in a day and age where governments allow the history of the Holocaust to be removed from schooling because it 'offends', that politicians would have more to be concerned about. FACTS ARE NOT CONTAINED IN MOVIES.

Tracey, Yeppoon, Australia

they liked the film then. must have been quite gutting for them, they rushed to the cinema to see it
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james, norwich, uk

Oh for goodness sake! What part of fiction do you people not understand? Don't take life so seriously. You'll never get out alive.

Merridiane, Jackson, USA

I think that both Australians and Russia's communists have a point! Haven't Hollywood films always been a legal propaganda for internal US consumption? Answer: Yes. After historically inaccurate and horrid films such as Troy, Alexander and 300 I think even the Greeks deserve an apology!

Andreas, nottingham,

Isn't that John Cleese in the picture....!!!!.

Nigel Mc, KL, Malaysia

direct from the ministry of silly walks

Nigel Mc, KL, Malaysia

I think the world has become too sensitive for its own good. People are looking like wimps worldwide. Did I offend anyone with this comment? I hope so.

sembo, Phoenix, USA

We are talking about a movie, right? The only thing this film is guilty of is that it's boring.

Wilbur Varela, los angeles,

harrison ford and cate blanchett as the Russian Communist party says are actors. They are acting. It is not real. It is a film about a fictional character with a fictional plot. If we all took films as indoctrination by the West then every Englishman would be a bad guy with the voice of Alan Rickman

James Macpherson, London, UK

Wow, i didn't realise that this was a documentary. i just thought it was supposed to be entertaining.

Geoff, Adelaide, Australia

Does the final paragraph criticize for "destroying archaeological sites to escape potential entombment"?

Now I haven't seen the film, nor I have I been at a potential risk of being entombed in an archaeological site. But I've got a pretty good idea of where my priorities lie.

alex, North Yorkshire, UK

Does anyone else see the irony in Russian Communists refuting the accusation that they are evil thugs by threatening to beat up an actor?

Shaun, London, UK

Oh, you hurt my feelings. Now I will beat you. How silly! Hello, it's a fictional movie. Grow up.

Dennis , Clarkrange, USA

Simultaneous sense of humour failure on two continents!

It must be the beginnings of an alien attack.

John Blackley, Winter Garden, Florida

Indy's goal is emphatically NOT to "make a profit" from his discoveries, but to prevent them from falling into the hands of the Nazis, or corrupted Indian death-cults, and now the KGB. He's the good guy, seeking to preserve the artifacts - the bad guys are the ones trying to profit from them.

Liam, Stoke, UK

Oh no, Harrison will have to cancel any holiday plans he may have had.

You've got to hand it to the Communist Party. Dealing with criticism by threatening to beat up a 66 year old actor is a big improvement from murdering millions of people.

Tom, Bristol,

I would actually love to see a film about archaelogy would be well exciting, should of done the same with Jurassic Park i think, you know, keep it exactly the same, but take away the dinosaurus.

james, norwich, uk

Love the picture above, almost makes me feel like visiting Russia so that I can watch a scene from Monty Python :-)

Sarah, Chiang Mai,

The comments made by the Russian government in this article do more to damage their reputation. Sometimes people are better off just letting things go.

Jeff, Sacramento/CA, USA

I saw this movie last night and, truth be told, I think that the Communist party (and Russians in general) should be more upset at how poorly and awful the actors were portraying them !

Ronald Potter, Niagara Falls, Canada

It's just a Hollywood film. Take a back seat.

Ruy A Gutierres, São Paulo, Bazil

I have a suggestion for Russian Communists and Australian archaeologists: lighten up! It's a film!

Robert, New York, USA

Oh, you silly communists... You lost, get over it!

Harry, London,