Last Monday, my friend was talking about the new movie and he asked if I wanted to be spoiled. I said no, so he told me there’s a
twist in the third act people are either gonna be on board with or they won’t. Then I read a non-spoilery review that referred to
said plot twist as “ballsy”. Needless to say, I was intrigued and started thinking of what it could be. My daughter suggested
they were gonna kill him off and we started making ‘InDiEana Jones and the DIEal of DIEstiny” jokes. I said since the plot involved
time travel, they were gonna reboot and Tom Selleck was gonna show up. Neither of those happened.
Apparently “ballsy” is when a movie whose plot revolves around time travel actually travels back in time and we briefly meet Archimedes in the year 200 BCE. Not unlike meeting a several century year old knight from the crusades, or having the Ark of the Covenant melt people’s faces. Or aliens. 
So we ended up going to see it. It’s serviceable enough as an Indy Jones movie, and in many ways it’s better than Crystal Skull, but at the same time, the tone is off given that it’s a different director. Ultimately, it’s just a cookie cutter cash grab by the Disney machine and Indiana Jones had the perfect metaphorical send off riding off into the sunset at the end of Last Crusade.
Or maybe my expectations are way too high when you wait 19 years, and then another 15 years in between sequels. Even if they were sparingly doing a new movie every 5-6 years, that’s still a half dozen Indy adventures we missed out on because Spielberg, Lucas, and Ford couldn’t get their schedules in order.
What was the point of the guy sleeping in the plane?
