Should they have gone back to 1939?

That whole nazi thing was way too outdated and no one cares about it now. Too many nazi movies about WW2, people are tired of them, saw it all already.

When I saw nazi stuff in the opening I thought: "Oh dear, here we go again".

And then they brought it back again with Mads character. And when those dudes and random extras put on nazi uniform, jumped back in plane and went to a mission to save nazi Germany of something I just burst in laughing. They all looked so stupid.

I’m glad they changed it and went to ancient Rome instead. I wish we would spend more time there. But she just hits Indy and we are back at present. Didnt even show how they took off. I was cheated. I wanted to see that. And I actually wanted Indy to stay there. Whats left to him in real world? Could have leaved his few years there in ancient Rome times.

On the other hand Fleabag was right. He was injured and would probably just die next morning.

if indy went back to 1939 he could have dialed up ilsa and reboned her. she does like older men.

(SPOILER) Well, what I thought worked about the ending was the surprise. At first, you think, yeah they went back to 1939. There is a battle going on down on the water. Then, they get closer and there are shots being lobbed between boats, and you think, "What?" Then, they get closer still and you see that there are sails on the ships. I was genuinely taken by surprise and think that it worked. It also underlined Voller's failure at just thinking it would be a no-brainer to go back to the time he wanted to.

The only date that is interesting when going back in time is 1955.
Everybody knows that.

No, Indy and WW2 is played out. I liked the twist.

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Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny Director James Mangold revealed that the original plan for the sequel’s conclusion was to incorporate supernatural elements like ghosts, though he ultimately changed course to venture into a time-traveling climax.

“When I came on the movie, they had been playing with a bunch of different things which were basically just reduxes of what had happened in the first movie. Just more apparitions and ghosts and I felt like I was just watching the first movie over again when I envisioned what was in the existing scripts,” Mangold expressed to Gizmodo. “And I felt like what Steven and George [Lucas] and Larry Kasdan and David Koepp as well had done successfully in the other films, was to keep kind of pulling up a rock on a different aspect of history and metaphysics and not going back to the same thing. In a way I didn’t want to do the kind of, ‘Is it a Death Star again?’”

He continued, “As we got there, it started occurring to me that A) that’s what the audience is going to be anticipating, and therefore not very surprising to them, and we’d be plunged just back into the opening of the film only with a 79-year-old Indy running around. I felt we needed something more shocking, something bolder, and something that also affected Indy. If he had gone back to Nazi Germany, he would simply be a hero trying to stop [Mads Mikkelsen’s] Voller from doing his plan. If he ended up where he does end up in the film, he was going to be facing bigger questions about his own life and what he studied all his life. And I thought that was going to be more interesting. And, also, usually bolder is better if you can do it.”

The ending they went with is one of the only good things about this.

I thought at first the ending was silly but having time to think about it, I didn't mind the setting. It's not so silly that it doesn't fit in with the Indy series, because the franchise has already laid the foundations for it to be a bit out there in terms of the supernatural and logic defying historical themed surrealness. Some things bugged me though:

The plane that Indy was on appeared to take collateral damager numerous times from the battle. The plane following seemed to fly around problem free and land safely.

The death of Voller and his cohorts was very anti-climatic. Old Indiana Jones used to make an event of the deaths of these bad guys. Now they just die by getting shot and a plane they are on crashing.

The ending of it with Indy being knocked out by the woman and dragged onto the plane. No such thing as damsels in distress anymore. It's old legendary male heroes that are in danger that need saving by young women, who have the strength to incapacitate them with one blow, when no other man before was capable.