FWIW,this thread reminded me that I own a copy & have never seen it.Until last night.
I liked it overall.
I dis-liked a few things.
-The fridge
-waaaay to many scenes that looked like an indoor set w/bad lighting (all the scenes in "ruins" looked like overly lighted,painted styrofoam-which it probably was)
-the magnetic gunpowder/buckshot.
-too many references to past movies(The Ark,the scorpions when going into the hole[spiders in the first movie],the snake in the sand trap[& he grabbed it!WTF?]
Then theres the biggies,the re-hashes,the un-original stuff.The vehicle fight scene was the underground mine car scene from Temple of Doom above ground.The ant attack was seemingly robbed from The Mummy/Mummy Returns(scarab beetles)-so was the whole disappearing alien city(from Mummy Returns,that is).Even the trip over the waterfalls brought to my mind the leap from the airplane & subsequent ride on a inflatable that was in T of D.I think there's another but...who cares,stick a fork in it!
I had no problem w/the alien angle.That part actually seems plausible to me(the magnetic alien/skull part-not so much).Nice tie in with the Indian tribe that bound their kids heads too.
What I liked:
-Cate Blanchett-----Woof!She's a beautiful woman & those eyes!
-The ending.The kid is picking up Indy's hat & I thought NO!,not a sequel w/a different Indiana!,& was relieved when Indy took his hat back.
-The McCarthy references.It was good to see the storyline brought forward & to get a little reasoning behind the story's undercurrents.That the hottie Ukrainian was just a rehash of the hottie Austrian was...O.K.(Boring,BUT o.k.)
Oh yeah,IIRC,Marion had been married prior.She was spoken of by her maiden name @ the wedding though.Not period correct-or at least unlikely,that.