Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was the first Indy movie that I found to be boring for long stretches. That was what I saw as its #1 failing, not anything about the subject matter. An Indiana Jones movie shouldn't be boring.
Clearly a lot of people didn't feel similarly. I'm glad that there's excitement about more movies.
Yeah, that too. I could have lived with the subject matter if it at least had the high energy and witty banter of the previous movies.
Instead we got dull, talky exposition about Mayan culture and a bunch of cheesy, cartoonish action that looked like it came out of the Mummy films. Ugh.
I agree here as well... For some reason, call it "lack of energy" or something, I couldn't get "hooked" into Kingdom like the old Indiana Jones movies. It felt like it was too "by the numbers" to me... Just IMO, of course.
Cheers,
-CM-