I went with my dad to see this on sunday. I prob agree with most of what Dan M said. Unlike 1 and 3, the fourth film gets straight into the main plot. It feels like they are ticking boxes - hmm, what do we need to make this an IJ film - oh I know, a silhouette of indy putting on his hat. The whole nuclear bomb scene was funny but as Dan says - somewhat hard to swallow,
They make a few brief references to characters from previous films like his dad and Brody (but no reference to Sallah!).
The aliens aspect did seem a bit...odd. Didn't feel like it fitted in with previous films. Also was a bit pathetic how little time the hordes of Native Indians got on screen.
Shia le boeuf was likeable enough, did the whole young adult trying to appear tough routine. I did find the scenes of an elderly Indy fighting soviet soldiers a tad unrealistic (more so than the aliens scenes!).
As for the ending, I didn't mind - it's the last one presumably, he deserves a bit of happiness :)
What the hell was going on with the cameos - Janitor from scrubs?! Oh and Alan Dale - how the hell has he gone from being Jim in Neighbours to being the chief alien in X files, a millionaire in OC, a millionaire in Lost and now in films like this?!
Bit too much going by the numbers, in the end - 6/10


