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Despite an intense effort by director Steven Spielberg, the executive producer George Lucas and Paramount Pictures to keep their highly anticipated sequel out of sight, a handful of Web reviewers have already critiqued the new “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.”

The fourth Indiana Jones movie is scheduled to make its debut on Sunday, May 18, at the Cannes Film Festival with an afternoon press screening, and another one at night.? On the same day the movie will be screened for the news media and industry insiders at multiple showings in Manhattan and Los Angeles, while other screenings are scheduled around the world. The movie then opens in theaters on the following Thursday.

However in spite of all precautions to keep the film under wraps a harshly critical review appeared on aintitcoolnews.com, from a poster who identified himself as “ShogunMaster.” The reviews bottom line is “This is the Indiana Movie that you were dreading.”

Other less critical, but less than sparkling, reviews also appeared on the Web site shortly after the first.

Paramount had shown the film to a handful of theater company executives at its Los Angeles lot and elsewhere. Such screenings are required in about two dozen states that have laws against blind-bidding, a practice in which theater owners were once asked to bid on films they had not seen.

The man who posted as ShogunMaster, admitted he is a theater executive who saw the film at an exhibitors’ screening this week, obviously taking advantage of his position. He spoke on condition of anonymity to avoid reprisal from the studio that he so easily stabbed in the back.

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