Now that the veil of secrecy surrounding "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" has been breached with hard drives and thousands of on-set photos missing and Lucasfilm lawyers ...

Once the group possesses the Crystal Skull — it does keep changing hands between Indy and the Soviet army — no one seems to know quite what to do with it.

“ Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” begins with an actual big bang, then gradually slides toward a ho-hum midsection before literally taking off for an uplifting finish.