Indiana Jones and the Temple of the Crystal Skulls

I'd been waiting 19 years for another installment of the Indy films. I went to see it last friday and it must be said, I wasn't expecting too much, like the new Star Wars trilogy I was just happy to have more of it!

Now, I've been pretty lucky with the sequels to other great sagas. Rocky Balboa was a great way to end the run after some ropey titles. Rambo IV was also Stallone at his best, making a film that was again, truely in keeping with the prequels.

Indiana Jones however left me with a feeling of ".....erm.....well, that was alright, not as good as Raiders or Temple, but probably better than Crusade" and that is as much of a review as I can really manage. It hasn't inspired me to write a comprehensive, evangelical review Dr Henry Jones' latest escapades.

Where was the witty dialog? Where were the Booby Traps? Where were the pits full of snakes and puzzles to solve? Oh yeah, and so historically innacurate, for a film about an archeologist/paleontologist/teacher, well, why not find out the facts first? I understand that its fiction. but if you build fiction around the real world, using real-world history ands wonders then you have to be historically accurate in the background, at least to a point.. such as getting temples from the correct civilisation (and country) in [Supposed] Peru.

That rant aside, what I did enjoy was seeing Harrison Ford as Indy, seeing him don his hat and the general nostalgia around the character.

Maybe it will be better on a second viewing, should I ever decide to do such a thing, I'll post an update.