The film consists largely of a tiring series of cartoonish action scenes that are so over the top that they become derisory and tedious. The rest is made up of sometimes amusing scenes played by a quality cast but without much ambition. Mangold's filmmaking is totally neutral and bland. The most serious problem is that the potential of the story, linked to the possibility of time travel, is completely underexploited. Between the main timeline located in 1969, the origin of the rivalry of the two main antagonists which takes place during World War II, and the dive into the Ancient Greece of Archimedes, there are few correspondences and no complex back and forth movements which could complicate the viewer's understanding. In the end, Indy wants to stay permanently in 213 BC, at the risk of creating a temporal paradox. To stop him, Phoebe Waller-Bridge just punches him (very credible...), and next thing everyone is in New York for a banal happy ending. That sums up rather well the routine spirit of this film.
