Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny is an adventure movie, the 5th installment in the Indiana Jones series. The movie opens in a flashback to 1944 Indy(Harrison Ford) and his buddy Basil Shaw(Toby Jones) are captured by Nazi's in their attempts to recover stolen antiquities. As they escape they encounter Nazi physicist Jürgen Voller who they relieve of half of the titular Dial. Flashfoward to 1969, Indy is retiring as a professor and estranged from his wife Marion. His goddaughter Helena Shaw(Phoebe Waller-Bridge) comes calling asking about the dial, they are then pursued by the CIA and Voller and his thugs. A global pursuit ensues.
Ford is comfortable and magnetic back in the role, he gives it the commitment and dignity needed to make this more than a simple nostalgia grab. Waller-Bridge is miscast, she plays the role like a deviation of Fleabag and the self-involved naturalism doesn't really play and the script doesn't help(aside from an effective emotional scene right at the end). The supporting cast all have pretty thinly drawn characters which isn't necessarily a problem but paired with a convoluted protracted plot, in total, other than Ford there's not much to latch into here.
Visually the movie is sufficient but there's an over-reliance on obvious green screen, the de-aging during the flashback is fine but still this technology isn't particularly convincing and certainly begs the question why bother. The action sequences aren't really inspired or impressive and the attempts at injecting stakes and emotion into the classic Indiana Jones mcguffin mostly fail.
Not Crystal Skull level but overlong, confused, and not particularly engaging.
Currently in theaters, coming soon to VOD.
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