"Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny" combines the action you're used to in an Indiana Jones picture with an additional character depth that you're not used to seeing.
The elephant in the room for many people is Harrison Ford's age. How can this have any of the dashing flair of the first three films with Harrison Ford being eighty? The answer: it doesn't. It has its own flair. Indiana Jones is painted as a character in the twilight of his life who has suffered the losses and disappointments a career like his will naturally produce. He is retiring as a professor and has virtually nothing to look forward to.
And then a roguish character from his past emerges and stirs up his anticipation of the thrill of the chase, the reverence of the prize, and the excitement of knowledge. This is about Indiana Jones rediscovering who he once was, while painfully aware of the reality of who he currently is.
It's no less exciting and adventurous than any other Indiana Jones film. There are double-crosses, chases, huge doses of swashbuckling two-fisted action, and massive puzzles to be solved. But what if, instead of the final prize being ephemeral... it could last forever? Even if there were possible negative consequences to the rest of the world... what if Indiana Jones could achieve what he's always wanted in his life...?
As such I found this film to be entertaining and thoughtful. Does it match "Raiders" or "Doom" or "Crusade?" No, and it couldn't. We live in a different time now. But it's a perfect period on the end of the Indiana Jones saga, and as such I'm glad I saw it and would be glad to see it again.
The elephant in the room for many people is Harrison Ford's age. How can this have any of the dashing flair of the first three films with Harrison Ford being eighty? The answer: it doesn't. It has its own flair. Indiana Jones is painted as a character in the twilight of his life who has suffered the losses and disappointments a career like his will naturally produce. He is retiring as a professor and has virtually nothing to look forward to.
And then a roguish character from his past emerges and stirs up his anticipation of the thrill of the chase, the reverence of the prize, and the excitement of knowledge. This is about Indiana Jones rediscovering who he once was, while painfully aware of the reality of who he currently is.
It's no less exciting and adventurous than any other Indiana Jones film. There are double-crosses, chases, huge doses of swashbuckling two-fisted action, and massive puzzles to be solved. But what if, instead of the final prize being ephemeral... it could last forever? Even if there were possible negative consequences to the rest of the world... what if Indiana Jones could achieve what he's always wanted in his life...?
As such I found this film to be entertaining and thoughtful. Does it match "Raiders" or "Doom" or "Crusade?" No, and it couldn't. We live in a different time now. But it's a perfect period on the end of the Indiana Jones saga, and as such I'm glad I saw it and would be glad to see it again.
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