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Indiana Jones : Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
I saw it. I enjoyed it. It worked well.
BUT …. (you knew that was coming) ……
Indiana Jones is like a favourite uncle that comes to visit once in while. When he’s not there, you reminisce about all the good times in the past. When he is there, you are never disappointed as he strives to put a new gloss on all his old party tricks. After he’s gone you sit back contented but ask yourself “Is it just me or was he better last time?”
The key to the success of this movie is the long time since the previous instalment and like the favourite uncle, “absence makes the heart grow fonder”.
The question is, would this movie stand up on it’s own if you had never seen the previous ones? We’ll never know as finding someone who has never heard of Indiana Jones would be harder than sending a probe to Mars.

First off, I know I’m a biased Stones fan and won’t find much wrong with anything they do. I was expecting something similar to the previous Bigger Bang and Four Flicks sets released to DVD. These have pretty much summed up the Stones in concert over the last decade and I couldn’t see where this would be different. Perhaps it’s not, but having just experienced “Shine A Light” on the big IMAX screen with the full surround sound, I can’t praise it any more than, “Fantastic!”

I’m not sure Martin Scorsese is going to win an oscar with this, but his own fanatacism with the Stones has certainly raised the bar in concert movies. There’s enough behind the scene footage and interviews to give an insight into how the Rolling Stones juggernaut operates but doesn’t take away from the intimate feeling of being there in the front row of the Beacon Theatre in New York.
The set list is surprising in that a number of the lesser featured Stones songs are included at the expense of some of the bigger hits. (”As Tears Go By”, “Faraway Eyes”, “Loving Cup”, “I’m Free”).

Look I’m not going to go on, simply see it , but at an IMAX theatre. The sound is terrific and superbly mixed for the movie (not like the usual live CD with Keith in one speaker and Ronnie in the other).
Warning: You may feel a bit queasy where the camera tries to keep up with Jagger running around from side to side of the stage and also a close up of Keith on a 50ft high screen may scare small children.