Review of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023) by Tristanhemlock — 18 Jul 2023

What a disappointment. And some people say Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was bad. Well this one is far worse.

The movie in a way tricks you in the first 15 to 20 minutes of the beginning of the movie, where it seems it's actually going to be good. But after that it's not even downhill, it's instead jumping off a cliff with no parachute.

This movie despite all the de-aging done to Harrison Ford, it can't perform in any way that saves it.

Indy is pretty finished. And not just in age, his life if like a bottomless pit of misery and nothing to live for.

And the search for the artifact as well as the artifact itself, is a painstaking nightmare. The movie is too slow paced, enemies just know where characters will be just because, no explanations needed.

As for Helena Shaw, Disney again delivers us another almost Mary Sue, that knows everything, knows how to almost everything, she doesn't care one bit what Indy has to say and even leaves him hanging more than once. In essence what to Disney is the "strong female character".

The movie is too long, boring, repetitive, the characters are too unreal even for fiction, the action scenes were clearly recorded in studio using green screen, and it basically ends where it started.

There's almost nothing worth saving in this movie, and definitely nothing worth watching again. Might as well have left things as they were in Crystal Skull, seeing that at least there Indy married the love of his life and discovered he had a son. Both things he no longer has in Dial of Destiny.