Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny Review



Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny reviewed by Siddhant Adlakha. Opens in theaters on June 30, 2023.

By yanking Indiana Jones out of retirement yet again, for a fifth (and hopefully final) movie, Disney proves that some things should be allowed to end. Or, at the very least, it proves that a franchise resurrection should spend at least some of its 154 minutes doing something other than trying desperately to justify its own existence. Earnest final efforts from Harison Ford and John Williams couldn’t rescue a movie so directionless and haphazard, or action that fails to recapture the swashbuckling joys of the originals. By asking why Indy is on this adventure in the first place, and what the character gains on the other side of it, Dial of Destiny concocts paradoxical answers that fail to meet in the middle. It’s a film about letting go of the past and moving forward, but one that refuses to do the same.

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28 thoughts on “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny Review”

  1. My real question is how Kathleen Kennedy has kept her position after regularly leading severely underperforming properties. If Lucasfilm were a factory of almost any other product, and consistently produces low quality products that customers complained about, she would have been replaced long ago.

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  2. They should’ve left the franchise at Indiana Jones and the last crusade. No need to tamper and remake old franchises, now future generations will never fully appreciate the franchise and the escapism of Indy.
    😢

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  3. You know what franchise is done when tomb raider and Uncharted are better contenders and films against the daddys most recent and previous grandiose adventures

    Indy needs to move on, we got Lara croft and Nathan Drake

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  4. I'm grateful to Dial Of Destiny and Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull for one thing. Their existence means that my personal favorite, Temple Of Doom, is no longer the red headed stepchild of the franchise.

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