I saw Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull last night with Elaine. I went into it with low expectations, but it was really quite good.

While it was a little silly and a bit heavy on the fight scenes, I recall the others in the series being pretty similar. I’d say it was as good as Raiders, better than Temple (a low bar), and worse than Crusade.

I thought the age thing would be more annoying than it was. Make no mistake, Ford is notably older. But the movie takes place in 1957, whereas Crusade was in 1938. So they allow for him aging by 19 years, adequately explaining his worse-for-wear look.

It was a good sequel to the existing trilogy. His sidekick wasn’t too annoying, it was appropriately supernatural (given the previous movies), and had plenty of action.