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21 May 2008 6:44 PM, PDT | From avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news

It's been nearly two decades since the last time Indiana Jones donned a fedora, and in that time, several serial adventure franchises—Tomb Raider, The Mummy, and National Treasure among them—have served as de facto sequels, plundering the world's limitless booby-trapped archeological wonders. For Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull, that's a mixed blessing: On one hand, there's nothing fresh about another wild goose chase slapped together from impenetrable hieroglyphs, secret passageways, and ancient extraterrestrial forces. On the other, nobody can orchestrate this robust silliness better than Steven Spielberg, who brings effortless visual panache to the proceedings, even when he can't entirely hide its mercenary nature. The biggest problem with Crystal Skull is one that's lately plagued Spielberg in otherwise excellent films like Munich and War Of The Worlds: He fails to stick the landing. And for an entertainment with nothing much on its mind,

Scott Tobias

1 article from 2008