First of all I must say I'm a huge fan of the Indiana Jones movies...my order of faves: Raiders, Crusade, then Temple. I wasnt expecting anything great, but I was hoping it would be better than Temple of Doom. I WANTED to like this movie...but it somehow managed to be worse than Temple. The story was just WAAY overdone to the point where I didnt feel like I was watching an Indiana Jones film. Some pretty absurd things happen, and while these movies are supposed to be exaggerated reality, this was simply too much. Indiana Jones movies have a simplicity to them that somehow make them grand. This movie tried too hard to be grand and as a result lost that magic feeling that you get from the old films, the old equation simply was not there. After the film was over I left the theater depressed and felt I had lost a bit of my faith in humanity.