Although I mentioned these few bad points. I did not dislike this movie. I can understand why Lucas took the Alien route as the Fifties was the start of the cold war. Just after Roswell and a lot of paranoia and bad B grade flying saucer movies made in this era. But it wasn't this point that made it feel corny for me. It was the start of the cgi scenes. Ewok style Tarzan swinging cgi that threw all the realistic presence out of this film. Building it up to a none climax at the end with the over the top alien cgi effect. As i said maybe he wanted this B grade look because of the 1950's style movies.

If it was just a fun stand alone movie Lucas wanted to create in the fifties B grade style then he succeeded. I can understand why people enjoyed it.

But on the standpoint of the other Indy flicks I think it fell short for me. I never felt any real threat, tension, danger or peril. (Previous movies had enemys that really put fear into the viewers.) Unfortunately blanchet and Russians as good as she is missed the mark. They made me laugh out of the cheesiness and slighty bored me a few times.
The build up of mystical magic that made you feel astonished and amazed with wonderment also fell short. Maybe I was just spoiled by it's predecessors unlike the Lara Crofts. I still enjoy these timeless movies now.

So to sum it up it didn't captivate me. But it did have the fifties look and felt solid in parts thanks to Fords and leboufs solid performances. So sit down with your popcorn make your own mind up and enjoy the Indy ride corny or not.

The ndiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull movie was good it just wasn't as good as the first. It was funny, kind of, action packed, all the way, and full of suspense.

Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull Review- All you have is replacing one thing for another. Nazi`s for the Russian K.G.B & God`s power for alien power, guess what gang NOT HAPPENING!

Like I said, for younger generations they now think our intrepid archiologist is an alien hunter and for us (I'm 29), we can always stretch the imagination but doing a tarzan or a sword fight between two jeeps with CGI background?.. I felt ill.