I really hated it.

I'm not a purist by any means and only watched the franchise itself late last year w/ a mate on a lazy weekend. I can't say I had high expectations but nor did I have low expectations. I didn't expect to get blown out of the water but just expected a bit of fun.

But that plot is so convoluted its ridiculous. What the hell were the writers and Luca smoking? To be terribly blunt, that required the imagination of a 8 yr old.

We had the "Force" moments, the ET moments, the lightsaber sounds... it was awful. I half expected Yoda to pop out of the Incan pyramids at some point.

I'm not attacking the movie from a believability angle. I mean, we had immortality and the like in the other movies. It just pissed me off that it strayed so far from the historical adventure comedy mix of the movie. That's what excites you about archealogy.

There just also wasn't that sexual tension till much later on which was always part of the humour. The chase scenes never had that intensity. It was like a stroll in the park. With the other movies, you had the against the odds feel. Here, it was more "oh what's next".

There were also a lot of leaps in logic that just jarred me. The one that stuck out was how they enter the cavern w/ battery operated torches when they fell through a three sets of waterfalls. Did they even have anything left at that point?

Probably one of the worst movies of the year imo.