[George Lucas] and Steven Spielberg have earned back a lot of goodwill with this one. It's the only Spielberg movie in over a decade that actually ends when it's supposed to.
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05/21/08
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
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Reviews Counted:248
Fresh:190
Rotten:58
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.
Theatrical Release:22-05-2008
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
Reviews for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
161 - 180 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
This is Spielberg at his most pop and most amazing: turning the shiny American quotidian into an authentically numinous and strange experience.
05/21/08
It’s as contrived and convoluted as all the other Indiana Jones movies, but not as much fun.
05/21/08
You definitely get your money's worth.
05/21/08
...Crystal Skull is a fine, rollicking, lightning-paced return to form for all involved...
05/21/08
Sitting through Steven Spielberg's slog down memory lane means waiting for surprise, waiting for delight, waiting for daylight after turgid trudges through Peruvian caves, and waiting for an abstract story to coalesce.
05/21/08
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull may be the slightest, least memorable entry in the franchise, but it's a franchise with a rather high bar, and the film's plentiful flaws do not overwhelm its pleasures.
05/21/08
The fourth chapter of the Indiana Jones chronicles feels repetitive and a little gassed, but it has too much bravura filmmaking, and just enough wit, to not recommend.
05/21/08
Satisfying if not fully electrifying, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull offers fans all the familiar elements: bullwhip, fedora, ancient texts, hidden clues, obscure maps and cliffhanging moment atop cliffhanging moment.
05/21/08
As with any class reunion, the pleasure of this Indiana Jones entry isn't so much what happens, as who you're with.
05/21/08
Great to have Indy back. Wish he had more interesting stuff to do.
05/21/08
Ford, like Spielberg, is completely in his comfort zone here. That means no risks, but in the case of The Crystal Skull, that kind of safety can still yield plenty of old-fashioned fun.
05/21/08
The movie's pretty good, occasionally very good. But I also kind of hope they don't make another one.
05/21/08
In the end, though, Crystal Skull feels too much like a retrospective.
05/21/08
While the production values are top-notch, and the action artfully choreographed, in the end -- and quite well before the end -- a sense of tedium sets in.
05/21/08
It's crammed full of the dash, filmmaking flair, swashbuckling magic, impossible stunts and tongue-in-cheek humor that made the series such a phenomenon of its time.
05/21/08
[It's] the most ridiculously cartoonish of the four flicks -- but Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is still a lot of fun anyway.
05/21/08
The film, which is set in the late '50s, is bathed in a golden glow that instantly transports us to another era, an era when the movies thrilled us with the daring exploits of human beings, not binary codes.
05/21/08
The worst that can be said of Crystal Skull is that it won’t be inspiring any youthful vine-swinging. A shame, really.
05/21/08
Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is as joyless as its predecessors were blissful.
05/21/08
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