Just got back from Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, another one of the many films I was looking forward to this summer and (spoiler alert - read no further unless you want plot points revealed) we both agreed it was kind of "meh." I thought the first hour was great stuff (Russians! Atomic bombs! And was that the Ark of the Covenant?) that was vintage Indiana Jones, but as soon as that crystal skull showed up, the movie started to go off the rails.
I know Lucas & Co. were going for a 50's B-movie feel here, but it felt a little too forced in spots, overreliant on CGI, and, again, after the fiasco that was the Star Wars "prequels," it's painfully apparent that George Lucas should not be allowed anywhere near a keyboard ever again. Seriously.
On the one hand, any Indy is good Indy, but I can't help but feel that they should have let the franchise ride off in the sunset, literally and figuratively, in The Last Crusade. However, given the ginormous opening of the film, and the passing of the fedora to Shia LeBoeuf at the film's conclusion, I suspect we may not have seen the last of Dr. Jones.
Fine by me, as long as we get Lawrence Kasdan back to write it. I said back away from the keyboard, George! I'm serious!
Dave and Cheryl give Indy 4 a solid thumbs in the middle.
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