***** Spoilers *****


The first 20 minutes was classic Indiana Jones. Now we transition to the old broken-down Indiana Jones.

It would have been easy to continue the thread only a few years later following this plot direction. It would have been a good movie. A real Indiana Jones movie but Disney doesn’t know how to do this properly without George and Steven.

Why this movie is woke:

He was apparently a “Cracker”. Use the N word and everyone has a hissy fit these days but it’s OK for someone black to call a white guy a “Cracker”. Got it Disney. Disney, George Lucas would never have brought your petty fascist racism into Indiana Jones. Oh, by the way I highly doubt the CIA had black, female operatives back in the 1960’s. So, this is typical woke sex/race placement regardless of the era or situation.

Apparently, Capitalism is the act of theft, per Disney. I assume Disney is non-profit. Oh, that’s right they aren’t. This is a result of the DEI-ESG rampant at Disney and permeating their products.

Yes, this movie is woke. As usually these days, Disney can’t help themselves. None of this was necessary to the plot and does nothing but diminish the story and turn off the fans.

Oddly this is a poor copy of the plot points of Crystal Skull, Raiders, Temple of Doom, and/or Last Crusade. Old guy surprises everyone by doing a bunch of unbelievable things. “Dad knows where the grail or the graphicos is”. Someone gets abducted, insects everywhere, etc. Not too different from the new Star Wars trilogy mess. Just copy the previous plot points that worked. At least Crystal Skull was a different group of bad guys. This by itself is not woke but still very bad story telling in that you have NO NEW IDEAS.

This movie pulled in $175 million domestic in 2023 dollars. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade did $197 million domestic in 1989 dollars which is $430 million in 2023 dollars. By comparison Crystal Skull killed with $317 million in 2008 dollars. This movie didn’t do well at all. I wonder why, DISNEY?

Not As Bad As I Expected

So I fully expected this to be very woke and would hate it. I am surprised to say it really isn't very woke. The only really woke aspect is the DEI black rascist female CIA agent. While there were a couple black CIA agents in the 1970's as this takes place in 1969 this is highly unlikely much less a female agent. No surprise her acting is also the worst of the bunch. Also she is the only 'good' character in the group of agents. The white males turn out to be Nazis. There is also the racist use of the term
'cracker' by the black CIA agent for a white male. This being acceptable but the 'N' word not is woke. The rest of the acting is pretty
good. I don't see the Helena character as woke either, she is not perfect, she is not over powered, and is rescued by Indy on several occasions. Replacing the previously established character of Indy's son I believe is more of an issue with Shia LaBeouf self imploding as a person. I found the storyline to be more inline with the Indiana Jones legacy than Crystal Skulls aliens nonsense. This does unfortunately suffer the same problems as that film with the overuse of poorly done greenscreen and CG FX. It all looks too filtered, clean and fake when compared with the OG trilogy. Still overall I think its the better of the 2 newer movies and worth a watch though still an unnecessary sequel.