✯✯½

After a highly disappointing previous chapter in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, a new chapter had to come by in order to provide the proper closure that Steven Spielberg and George Lucas’s long-running franchise had deserved. But without Steven Spielberg at the director’s chair, and George Lucas writing a story, it’s clear something is missing. With directing duties passed on over to James Mangold, who previously directed Logan and Ford v Ferrari, it’d be easy enough to at least hope the shoes are filled. Yet when we’re talking a film series that started with Raiders of the Lost Ark, which was just about the perfect action-adventure movie anyone can ask for, those would be such massive shoes to fill for a fifteen year wait in between the preceding chapter and this one. Sadly, it seems like all those years have left Indiana Jones to conclude not with a bang, but with a whimper.

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