Why aliens? I mean does that mean aliens are responsible for the Ark of the Covenant or the Holy Grail? I as a human am proud of the accomplishments my species has achieved. I think the whole idea of a successful archeologist is finding knowledge and wisdom in our past that we may have forgotten or lost. Having aliens responsible for all of our greatest architectural and cultural achievements is just not an idea that I think Indy should stand for.

Blowing up heads. There wasn’t enough gore or grisly deaths. I loved the final scene in Raiders. I used to hype myself up to see it happen every time and it would always freak me out. One guy’s head melts, the other two explode. Blood and brains everywhere! That’s entertainment. So one dude gets eaten by some ants… they could have made that more interesting if his body started splitting up underneath the blanket of ants… but no. He just went into the hole whole. And Cate Blanchet’s death was anything but gruesome.

But its good to hear a positive take on the movie, which is ultimately what I left the theater with.

Ford, just as he did in the first three Indy films portrays a well kept, intrepid and above all cunning adventurer, the dream combination of wits and skill.

This man can do just about anything he likes with a bull whip while at the same time speak about 200 dead languages.And Indy doesn’t hold back, whether it be using gun powder to trace a magnetic relic or drop an AK47 on the floor in such a way that he shoots a Russian in the foot, and he does it at ease.

“You don’t know im! You don’t know im!” screams Ray Winstone’s character ‘Mac’ to one of Indy’s foes during a game of chicken between two jeeps inside a military hangar.

This long awaited fourth adventure sees Indiana along with prodigal son ‘Mutt’ (It’s a human being, not some sort of talented animal that George Lucas probably wanted to throw in there) delve into a South American jungle whilst at logger heads with the soviets trying to get to the bottom of what it is exactly the crystal skull they have on them can do. Amazing are some of the opening stunts and I never knew how handy a fridge during a nuclear wipe-out could be.

I’m not the naive 10 year old I was when the original Indy trilogy was put to me in the late nineties so like my grandad I was left saying to myself ‘I ain’t avin that’ at some of the plot revelations and just a couple of the stunts. Like driving off a cliff and landing the vehicle on a branch, and it wasn’t even Indiana who pulled that manoeuvre out of the bag.

Being a Brit, I enjoyed seeing Ray Winstone in there and have done a few impressions of him referring to Indiana as ‘Jonesy’ since seeing the film.

The magic, excitement and interest of the Indiana Jones we know and love is still there and so leads to quite an enjoyable cinema experience, but its needs something just a little bit more out of this world to create that feeling I got during Raiders.

And before I forget, John William’s soundtrack still sends that little shiver down my spine.