It's not like Indiana Jones isn't used to being in tight spots, but then again, he's never been judged by a Cannes Film Festival audience.

The latest chapter in the saga following everybody's favorite archaeologist, "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull," did just that, premiering Sunday at the festival.

While the film received none of the derisive laughter or catcalls that came near the end of the Cannes screening of "Da Vinci Code" two years ago, it did get receive louder applause going in than coming out.

Some viewers at its first press screening loved it, some called it slick and enjoyable though formulaic, some said it was not worth the 19-year wait since Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and Harrison Ford made the last film.

Fans at the early afternoon showing, cheered and clapped wildly at an announcement that the screening was about to start. Some even hummed the Indiana Jones fanfare as the lights went down.

The applause at the end was more subdued.

The first official review of the film, published by the London paper The Telegraph, didn't have many positive things to say.

Saying that Ford shows every one of his 65 years, the review stopped short of describing the film as bad, but called it "undeniably creaky."

"With a cast clearly pre-fabricated to appeal to all ages, an overstuffed plot and an ageing action hero, it feels born of commercial calculation rather than a story that needed to be told," the review said.