Steven Spielberg's Best Indiana Jones Successor Finds a New Free Streamer

Steven Spielberg recently made a long-awaited return to sci-fi, but like the genre's other prodigal son, Ridley Scott, his comeback wasn't as successful as he'd have liked. While Scott's new movie, The Dog Stars, has underperformed commercially and received mediocre reviews, Spielberg's far more expensive Disclosure Day barely broke even and left audiences largely indifferent. Spielberg hasn't delivered an outright hit since Ready Player One, which was released nearly a decade ago. But it's easy to forget that Ready Player One was released at a time when Spielberg was going through a similar lull, with movies such as War Horse and The BFG both falling short of the mark at the box office. It was during this decade that he attempted to launch a franchise with a movie that honored some of his most iconic past work. The movie in question is currently streaming for free in the United States.

It marked Spielberg's first time working in performance capture, and the freedom he got resulted in some of the most ambitious sequences he has ever crafted. A oner in the movie is often ranked among the greatest action beats of the last few decades. The movie was based on a series of popular Franco-Belgian comic books that Spielberg became aware of when he was promoting Raiders of the Lost Ark in Europe. Although the movie was produced during a particularly successful era for comic book adaptations, familiarizing American audiences with the source material was always going to be a challenge. Eventually, Spielberg was unable to pull it off, with the movie only grossing around $70 million domestically.