1) Spielberg Still Knows His Way Around A Set-Piece
Generally, as filmmakers get older, their films become less ambitious and energized. This is true of so many of the so-called movie brats that Steven Spielberg emerged alongside back in the 1970s.
Now, the likes of William Friedkin and Brian De Palma make smaller-scale dramas and take long gaps between movies, while the likes of Lucas and John Carpenter appear to have retired altogether. Not only is Spielberg still as prolific as ever, but his movies are also just as vital as they always were.
This is most obvious in the director’s set-pieces. Even the relatively stately Bridge of Spies features some incredibly tense sequences and one exhilarating scene involving an American spy plane being shot down over Soviet airspace.
Spielberg simply hasn’t lost the knack for making great set-pieces, which can only be a good thing for Indiana Jones 5. This is, after all, a series that lives and dies by its iconic action scenes.