There goes our Hero again out of his comfortable indoor job to chase after the missing crystal skull. Ironically, the skull
reunites his family in the end. While the movie still captures the audience with some cool innovations, much of the movie is predictably entertaining. Young Indy scenes are just short of the hero touch though in most cases he pulls it off in the end. It is a movie where our Hero just gives away the scenes and credit to others which many a time seems a mellowed out Indiana Jones character which we dont want to see. It is obvious where Sean connery would have added the missing touch especially for the role of the "other professor archaeologist" who supposedly figures out how to unlock the hidden skull hall. A woman is the villan and she holds the trophy skull, at least for the final round, only in a last effort to currie favors from the skull-committee, but ends up dead in 'a Lost Ark kind of way'. It looks like Hollywood still follows the old line "if we tell you the secret, we will have to kill you after that" without actually saying it anywhere. Our tough villan woman dies because of greed for knowledge which is odd - some rewriting could have helped here by the Director. Greed for power kills, but greed for knowledge killing doesnt seem right.