Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny 2023 by AverageMansReviews

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny 2023 by AverageMansReviews

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Warning: there is flashing effects/colourful effects/Nazism/racism/hanging/drowning/animal feeding/torture/strangling/shooting/burning/medical

In present times of 1969: Dr. Indiana Jones/Dr. Henry Walton Jones, Jr./Indy [Harrison Ford:] is just about to retire from Hunter College. After he does that, he has just enough time for one more adventure, unknown to him it doesn't have to wait too long for one to hit him in the face as Helena "Wombat" Shaw [Younger: Holly Lawton/Older: Phoebe Waller-Bridge:] she is goddaughter of Dr. Jones, she has just graduated/qualified to be an archaeologist she is very slick as in short she is looking for the Archimedes Dial/Antie Chimera [full disclosure I am going to guess like 99.9% I have spelt that incorrectly as I couldn't find the spelling and so I just went with how it sounds.] But I digress; Wombat is looking for the same thing that drove her father very slightly mad Dr. Basil Shaw [Toby Jones:] he is an Oxford professor of archaeology and very good friends with Dr. Jones. But they aren't the only ones trying to find it as we will meet in one way or another friends or/and foes of Dr. Jones history.

Generally speaking: the framework and pacing of this 154 minutes film is a mixed bag, takes ages to actually feel like a Indiana Jones film, I may as well say this from the very beginning this is going to be a general theme throughout this content that this instalment of this franchise takes a long time to actually feel like it belongs in this franchise.

The thing is whomever came up with the idea to begin the film in this manner deserves to receive at minimum a swirly [this is if you are of a younger age and weren't born many decades ago; if you had a bully or two they would basically hang you upside down and put your head in the toilet bowl and flash the toilet; I should dictate a very quick disclaimer; if anyone partakes in this behaviour I will not be held responsible.] But I digress; but whomever came up with this, they deserve one every day for the next decade.

Because we have a beginning section to this film where it begins in 1944, where in on one hand it may be good for the back story component to proceedings. But on the other hand it really does set the tone for a good portion of this film where we have this opening section Dr. Jones is still being Indiana Jones, then get to 1969 with yes we have this seamless and instant rotation through time. But ultimately it is really, really quite depressing and yes I can deal with the sands of time and all of that, but from here until this film gets up and going you know actually feels and looks like an Indiana Jones film, this is all quite depressing.

But when we come to Dr. Jones being Indiana Jones we have some engaging yet its slightly comical action sequences with art involving these little transport vehicles for this part of the world possibly taxi we have Dr. Jones driving with Wombat and her friend Teddy [Ethann Isidore:] a pickpocket which is highly skilled with mechanical things, but at some point they leave Dr. Jones high and dry; to give a vehicle that works better as Dr. Jones is left struggling to reverse this vehicle of these steps using his feet and strength he is able to do this and then catch up.

Later on; we have these underwater sequences that look highly engaging and very much easy on the eye as they go searching for something with Renaldo [Antonio Banderas:] he is an old friend of Dr. Jones, he is a experienced frogman or/and any other underwater or in the water sequence.

On the whole the character developments are safe and reliable versions of what they are meant to be, but unfortunately this can be also sad to watch. Wombat is a mixture between her father and her godfather which on top we have self-reliance and getting things done as they weren't there for her. So there are some dialogue exchange with godfather and goddaughter where I am paraphrasing here; Dr. Jones doesn't see where this is coming from, even though they are elements of her just being like Indiana Jones, you know intelligent, but brash, okay Indiana Jones may not steal things to make a profit, but minus that, the whip and the hat and you have basically Indiana Jones. The performances are likewise reliably good from everyone in this cast regardless of role size.

This film receives: 5/10, this film is mixed; when it actually be like a Indiana Jones film then, it is good. But that is until you get towards the later stages of this project and basically without giving too much away it gets a big nope from me and that is all I can say about that really other than when you experience this section of the film you know precisely what I am making reference to, as soon as it happened I instantly took a mark off, so this final instalment has a depressing selection consequently it depends the rest of the majority of the time rescuing the situation, to only fall at the last final couple of hurdles, but at least it is better than its predecessor; Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull 2008 Link https://averagemansreviews2017.blogspot.com/2017/07/indiana-jones-and-kingdom-of-crystal.html