 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is a 2008 American science fiction adventure film . It is the fourth installment in the Indiana Jones series created by George Lucas and directed by Steven Spielberg . Released nineteen years after the previous film , the film acknowledges the age of its star Harrison Ford by being set in 1957 . It pays homage to the serials of the 1930s and 1940s that inspired the original films .
In the film, Jones is lured to Peru by a Russian agent and her employer, a Soviet agent who is looking for the mythical crystal skull. He teams