Harrison Ford’s Indiana Jones is held at gunpoint by murderous Soviet soldiers led by an icy Cate Blanchett as a paranormal-research scientist named Irina Spalko.

By the time Cate Blanchett starred as Irina Spalko in "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull," she was already an Academy Award winner, a BAFTA winner and a Golden Globe winner ...

Joined by Irina Spalko (Cate Blanchett), Jones leads a quest to search a mysterious crystal skull found in Peru, rumored to be connected to the extraterrestrial conspiracy taking place back home.

Sure, I wanted Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull to be as classically adventurous as Raiders of the Lost Ark, which kicked off the Indy saga in 1981. It isn’t.