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There are not major spoilers in this review!

Movie Viewers Are Changing for the Better or Worse?

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny is one of those movies Hollywood producers bank on to bring in the box office dollars. Between the last Indiana movie and this one, 2008 was years ago and audiences appear to be increasingly fickle in what they want to see from month to month. Just because you have a leading actor or actress doesn’t appear to be solid gold as it once was back in the day. I opted to watch Oppenheimer over Barbie in the theater and the fact the latter earned about $75 million more dollars than the former in the opening week says a lot. Franchises are not a shoe in for success. Viewers have become more critical of movies from the way they are cast to the way the CGI is used. People are more willing to tear a movie apart based on one aspect and then trash it to the point of no return. I admit it is good to have critics, but now we have too many critics and too many people believing the critics without any reflection or thought of their own. We seem to have arrived at the place where creativity is being stifled in many ways and the possibility of being shut out of Hollywood for something not of your doing is more a reality than not. Don’t jump on the wagon without looking to see if there’s not a pile of manure in it is all I’m saying.

The Hat Lives to See Another Adventure

Some of the creative people involved in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny include the writers of Jez Butterworth, John-henry Butterworth, and David Koepp and director James Mangold. The main cast include Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones, Phoebe Waller-Bridge as Helena Shaw, Mads Mikkelsen as Jürgen Voller, Antonio Banderas as Renaldo, Shaunette Toby Jones as Basil Shaw, Boyd Holbrook as Klaber, Ethann Isidore as Teddy Kumar, John Rhys-Davies as Sallah, and Shaunette Renée Wilson as Mason. It is rated PG-13 and is two hours and 34 minutes in length.

I would say the war most portrayed in movies is World War II because it could’ve ended very differently and in a very bad way. Indiana Jones retired but as many retired people do, they eventually get back into the grind of working in some way. He didn’t think it would happen so soon when his goddaughter, Helena Shaw, asks him for help. This begins a journey of his own when he shows Helena the Archimedes’ Dial he’s kept hidden all these years. He travels over the world, chasing the bad guys, but his real enemy is from the past and if he is not careful, he might end up in a year he knows nothing about. This fifth installment is less cartoonish than Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal (2008) which makes it the better movie between the two. For being an action/adventure movie, it had an ending I did not anticipate.

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My Final Take on Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

While the first three movies had a younger Harrison Ford, the script included the truth that he is older and not as agile as he was once and yet, it was a great humble nod to his time and progression as Indy. No matter who his foe is and the perilous situation he’s in, the wisdom and knowledge he gained over his travels matters when it comes to life and death. There was a different kind of Indy I saw where he battled the demons inside him more openly. He wanted to live, but if death came knocking, it would be alright too. Indy is not a superhero. He’s a human being and by the end of the movie, he’s perfectly fine with this reality.

I rate Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny FOUR FINGERS at 90%