It contains everything a classic Indiana Jones picture should have. An improbable sidekick, a sexy foreign villain with her team of cliché henchmen (russians this time), shitloads of good, slightly over-the-top stunts and action sequences, and a familiar face and some classic actors trown in the mix as well. The story is about a crystal skull that Indy manages to secure along with his sidekick, and has to return it to a hidden mayan city before the team of russians do. Along the way he meets up with a rambling John Hurt and Karen Allen, who played his love interest in the first film. Jim Broadbent also has a small role as the dean of Indy's univeristy. What follows is an action packed adventure just like the adventure films of the older days, when adventure films where fun to watch and without too many moral lessons and stuff.
PROS:
-two thumbs up for the cast, Harrison Ford is still Indiana Jones and you can tell he loved doing it again, Shia Labeouf was a very decent sidekick and didn't get on my nerves like i expected him to, Cate Blanchett was fantastic as the sexy Russian KGB agent Irina Spalko, and Karen Allen is still the feisty Marion Ravenwood she was in raiders. the supporting cast doesn't really do much other than get in the way...
-It's paced just like an 80's film, wich pleased me greatly, although i can imagine alot of people will not be up for that.
-fantastic stunts with little use of CGI.
CONS:
don't read them if you didn't watch the film already. SERIOUSLY!
Spoiler:
some of the cons are major cons, but like bobbins said on the disco board i will happily ignore that, since we've been waiting 19 years for this film, and i'm not going to bicker about some trivialities. I mean, it's Indiana Jones for fuck's sake!
