Indiana Jones & The Great Circle Avoids The Biggest Movie Mistake

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Indiana Jones is returning to the world of video games for the first time in a decade in The game shows every classic hallmark of an Indy adventure: brown fedoras, trusty whips, foreign lands, witty love interests, famous treasures, and Nazis. Once again, some timeless villains are making an appearance to vie with Indiana Jones for holy relics and priceless artifacts.

While it might seem a bit tired to keep bringing back the same story elements for yet another story, keeping the classic villains is the right move. is Indy’s first big video game outing in a long time, since his last game, the Facebook game doesn’t exactly count as an AAA adventure. With such an outing on the small screen, it makes sense that is avoiding the mistakes of past movies.

The Nazis are the simplest villains for a character like Indiana Jones. While they pursue the various artifacts in the series for personal glory or for the sake of their oppressive empire, Indy tries to protect treasure and the people around him, though his archaeological practices can sometimes be questionable. A story never needs to explain what the pursuit of the Nazi is, sincethe audience can instantly understand that their intent is evil.

Keeping Nazis as the main villains in comes down to one solid fact: All the best movies include them losing once again to Indy. The two outliers in the series, and both tried to avoid reusing Nazis to their detriment. opted to focus on an evil cult instead of reusing the villains from, mostly to change things up for a sequel.

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny also featured Nazi villains, but performed poorly at the box office.

included a significant shift in era due to the actor’s ages and thus replaced Nazis with Cold War-era Soviets, which didn’t work as well due to the villain's motivation. In fact, they seemed more likewatered-down Nazis with the same vague goals. will bypass this problem by bringing back the classic villain.This choice might seem too safe, but it’s clear