I was expecting to go into this movie to be disappointed, because I had read the reviews of people that had seen it....
I couldn't have been more wrong. This movie was every bit the Indiana Jones that I wanted and remembered. This movie has it's own mystique that harkens back to another time and place. The cinematography is excellent. The choices they made to shoot this film was fun and visually superb.
Many people I have read didn't like what the film included at the end, but I really didn't mind that because it was in keeping with the paranoia of the time.... I won't give it away, but the 1950s had it's own brand of paranoia that rings true even today.
If you go expecting to see realism or Academy award acting... you'll be disappointed. This film isn't about that... it's about what makes it fun to be at the movies. Our world is scary enough, but being able to jump into Indy's world for a couple hours... Now that's the stuff of legends.
Cudos to Stephen Spielberg and George Lucas... they are geniuses that continue to work their movie magic.