My sentiments on the new Indiana Jones movie

So this is taken from one user critic on Yahoo....
"The Indy movies have always been about adventure, mystery and history; this film loosely bases it's plot on the Roswell, NM crash of 1947, so you have some history. From there it becomes a jumbled mess and doesn't recapture any of the magic that makes Indy great. Gone is the research, creativity, problem solving, and pieces of the puzzle to assemble. In it's place is the rambling of a crazy man whom only Indy seems to understand, supposedly because of his interaction with the skull.

Indy's fear of snakes is revisited, but just doesn't seem as fun as in previous films... maybe he's just getting used to seeing snakes in stressful situations? Instead of bugs or rats, we have ants gone wild. However, all we know is that they're big and that there's lots of them - we don't get an eerie or gory story about what kind of killer or poisonous ants they might be. It's almost thrown in as an afterthought - it's benchmark status compromised."

I unfortunately fall into this camp. I was expecting an archaeological adventure, where ancient myths discovered, clues to a puzzle and then obviously a lot of chases between the good and bad guys. I didn't mind that at the end there was sci-fi twist to the movie but just wanted something where he was more engaged in solving. And then I think the chemistry between Harrison Ford and Shia could have been better. I actually enjoyed the interactions between Sean Connery and Harrison Ford more then this latest chapter.

Anyways, not to be overly critical. It was entertaining and well worth the midnight showing.