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Fresh:190
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Average Rating:6.9/10
Consensus: Though the plot elements are certainly familiar, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull still delivers the thrills and Harrison Ford's return in the title role is more than welcome.
Australian Theatrical Release:
May 22, 2008 Wide
US Box Office: $316,957,122
Synopsis: When we last saw Indiana Jones on screen, it was 1938, and the world stood on the brink of war as Dr. Jones chased down evildoers to find the Holy Grail. Nineteen years later, he’s cracking his... [More]
Starring: Harrison Ford, Ray Winstone, Shia LaBeouf, Cate Blanchett
Director: Steven Spielberg
Longtime fans of the series will find the references to past films delightful, and they'll similarly be pleased to find Spielberg once again at his most limber: The director hasn't made a film this light and carefree in a long time.
An amusement park ride. Kind of fun, but we know there's no real danger. The film never has an edge (save for a great hotrod scene).
Crystal Skull can be an amusing couple of hours, even if it's hardly the 'event' it ought to have been.
Crystal Skull isn’t bad -- there are a few dazzling sequences, and a couple of good performances -- but the unprecedented blend of comedy and action that made the movies so much more fun than any other adventure series is mostly gone.
Top CriticThere’s nothing but entertainment value here.
Top CriticThe action is the movie’s raison d’être, of course, but the setups are wittier than the payoffs.
It's not fair to ask the film to appeal to your somber, jaded adult sensitivities when the reason you fell in love with Indiana Jones in the first place was because it was the stuff of boyhood daydreams.
Even in a poorly written cobbled together mess like this, Indy still shines and Ford can still bring him to life.
...there's ultimately no denying that the film is as thrilling and enthralling as one might've hoped.
Ford and Spielberg are all a little older and a little slower. But the film works because they have all retained a sense of fun... This isn't great art, just great fun.
This entry feels hokey and jokey, mired in nostalgia and strewn with Spielbergian and Lucasian themes as fake as the cobwebs used on the sound-stagey sets.
Karen Allen was once famous for drinking men under the table, and from the looks of her it's there they'll stay. As for Indy, now that he has reached the two-thirds century mark, it's time to stop using the whip and start using the term 'whippersnapper.'
It's what we've been Jones-ing for. For 19 years, in fact.
This film is a compendium of geographic misinformation as well as solid collection of action sequences.
It's stupid as all heck in places, but it's still a lot of fun. Ford actually seems excited to be in a movie.
A worthy successor to those earlier three films in the series.
It's not a perfect movie, but it's an Indiana Jones movie.
Whichever way we go, we have to always, always be looking.
Indiana goes about his business shake-rattle-and-rolling around the tropics and cracking secret codes and heads alike, as abracadabra escapades, Elvis jive, brainiacs and Cold War KGB agents collide. So does Indy 4 rock? Da, Daddy-O.
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