What the movie lacked basically is the sense of achievement. In the previous movies, Indy was a hero: he was confronted with incredible mysteries, he solved the riddles and won. In this movie, there are almost no riddles, and therefore no sense of achievement: everything is known almost from the beginning.

It's not about being a medium, it's about the clues given in the story.

For example, when I saw the hole in the door, I immediately knew the skull would have to be placed in it.

When the group was searching the rocks for a mechanism to open, I knew that they would push a level or something.

When I saw the references to Roswell, I immediately knew the whole thing was about aliens.

When I saw Indy in the middle of the desert 10 seconds before the nuclear test, I immediately thought "he should hide in something with a lead casing". At the next frame that I saw the refrigerator, I immediately understood, before Indy making a move, that he will hide in the refrigerator.

These are some of the examples I could give. There are others...this movie really lacked the element of achievement.

A classic moment in the Indiana Jones film is the moment where Indy confronts a fellow with a sword. The guy does a little dancing, showing how capable he is with the sword, but Indy smiles ironically and shoots the guy (this scene is from Raiders of the lost Ark). In the second movie, Indy is confronted with two sword fighters, he simples, he tries to pull out his gun, but the gun is not there! (that's from Temple of Doom). That's a great surprise. What Indy will do next?

Indy 4 had no such material.

Or
"The infamous scene in which Indy shoots a marauding and flamboyant swordsman was not in the original script. Harrison Ford was supposed to use his whip to get the swords out of his attacker's hands, but the food poisoning he and the rest of the crew had gotten made him too sick to perform the stunt. After several unsuccessful tries, someone made the off-handed remark, "Why doesn't he just shoot him and get it done and over with?" Steven Spielberg immediately took up the idea and the scene was successfully filmed."

As usual, I was thinking to put a loooooooooong answer, but then I resign.

I will just say that when the first Indy were out, a lot of people there (including me) were young, or very young. Which mean that we didn't have all the brain capacity that we have now.

This lead to the following explanations: there never be any 'hard' clues. It's just that now you find them easier than when you saw the firsts Indy.

When I read your post, I immediately know you are a boring guy But I still read you.
Man, WTF with that film ? Didn't you have a good time watching it ? Ha, yeah, I forgot that you immediately known that Indy will win at the first 5 minutes of the film. Wait, isn't he supposed to win each time ? So why going watch such a film if we already know what's going on ?

That's called pleasure. Did you have pleasure watching that film ?

That's enough. Mind that I was wanting to put a short post .

EDIT: IT WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN INDIANA JONES IF IT WAS A COMPLICATED FILM.

I don't post comments in order to entertain other people.

Nope. It sucked. And it was not because I am older now, because I've watched Raiders of the Lost Ark again and it's a vastly superior film.

That's my opinion exactly when it comes to movies. I would make a very bad film critic since I seem to enjoy almost every movie I watch. Some people complain about how stupid or poorly acted a movie was and I come out saying it was really funny. They say "it wasn't supposed to be funny" but I figure, "I laughed at it and enjoyed myself, what does it matter what the film makers intended".

Let's just hope they hurry up and make a fifth movie so everyone can say, "Well, it's no Kingdom..."