Indiana escapes (long story) and takes off for a new back-to-nature excellent adventure in search of the mythic omnipotent Crystal Skull - he is needed to help track down a crate in Area 51. One harrowing escape follows another as one of Indiana’s colleagues, Professor Oxley (John Hurt), has set out to find it and disappeared.

A young man named Mutt (Shia LeBeouf) arrives to beg Indy to help find the Crystal Skull and return it to the lost city of Alkator, an El Dorado in the middle of the Amazon. Along the way they run into Marion Ravenwood (Karen Allen reprising her role from the original film), who has lost none of her spunk.

Allen's Marion is still tough and appealing, but the script doesn’t give her quite enough to do, though, and the family dynamics that take over the last third of the movie feel overly familiar. But LaBeouf and Ford have an easy rapport, with the sassy kid landing most of the "geezer" one-liners. Ford, at 65, may not have the looks anymore, but his weathered take on the old formula works.