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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Indiana Jones 4)

2008

Steven Spielberg

Harrison Ford, Cate Blanchett, Shia LaBeouf, Karen Allen ...

5.4

75,948

Adventure. Action. Sci-Fi Year 1957. During the Cold War, Soviet agents watch Professor Henry Jones when a young man brings him a coded message from an aged, demented colleague, Henry Oxley. Led by the brilliant Irina Spalko, the Soviets tail Jones and the young man, Mutt, to Peru. With Oxley's code, they find a legendary skull made of a single piece of quartz. If Jones can deliver the skull to its rightful place, all may be well; but if Irina takes it to its ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"'Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.' Say it aloud. The very title causes the pulse to quicken (...) If you liked the other Indiana Jones movies, you will like this one (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Claudia Puig USA Today	"Indiana Jones is a bit more grizzled. But his witty banter is still decidedly intact (...) Even with the ponderous dialogue, it's hard not to have fun on this adventure (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Kirk Honeycutt The Hollywood Reporter	"[It] gets swamped in a sea of stunts and CGI that are relentless as the scenes and character relationships are charmless."	NEG
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"Nineteen years after their last adventure, director Steven Spielberg and star Harrison Ford have no trouble getting back in the groove with a story and style very much in keeping with what has made the series so perennially popular."	POS
United States	Richard Corliss Time	"There are scenes in the new movie that seem like stretching exercises at a retirement home; there are garrulous stretches, and even the title seems a few words too long. But once it gets going, 'Crystal Skull' delivers smart, robust, familiar entertainment."	POS
United States	Scott Tobias AV Club	"The biggest problem with 'Crystal Skull' is one that's lately plagued Spielberg in otherwise excellent films (...) He fails to stick the landing. And for an entertainment with nothing much on its mind, that hurts."	NEU
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"There's plenty of frantic energy here, lots of noise and money too, but what's absent is any sense of rediscovery, the kind that's necessary whenever a filmmaker dusts off an old formula or a genre standard."	NEU
United States	Dana Stevens Slate	"Crude but efficient (...) The movie's habit of quoting from venerable Hollywood antiquities sometimes has the unfortunate effect of reminding the viewer that those movies were better."	NEU
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Audiences looking for emotional resonance in 'Indy 4' are doomed to the temple of disappointment. Spielberg and Lucas aren't upping their creative game (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Ty Burr Boston Globe	"A rollicking class reunion that stands as the second best entry in the venerable series (...) In ways both inspired and unexamined, 'Indiana Jones' remains happily stuck in the 80s (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"This new Indy film looks like it's going through the motions (...) There are some nice moments, and everything is good-natured enough (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Damon Wise Empire	"A slick, fun film that has by no means sacrificed the fast action beats of the first three (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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