‘Indiana Jones Dial of Destiny is Indiana Jones’ best movie in the last three decades. On its own, the statement can be quite impressive, but much less when taken into account. At the time, only the fourth installment of his saga, ‘Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull’ (2008), came to light, and it turned out to be a sad movie. – it is enough to remember that the hero survived a nuclear explosion stuck in the refrigerator and encountered aliens-; No one in their right mind would put this on par with the original trilogy that made up ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’ (1981), ‘Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom’ (1984) and ‘Indiana Jones and the Last’. Crusade’ (1989) was not only spectacular but also extraordinarily entertaining and exciting.
Although it creates these feelings at times, The “dial of fate” is weighed down by a handful of flamboyant but not very inspiring action sequencesunremarkable secondary characters and extreme digital effects that deprive it of the physicality and immediacy that once defined the epic.
Directed by James Mangold, who took the baton from Steven Spielberg, the film tells the same kind of story as its predecessors.: the quest for a priceless relic that has supposedly magical powers and can be very dangerous if it falls into the wrong hands. Specifically, the object is Antikythera, a mechanism made up of wheels and levers that is supposed to have been designed by Archimedes in his time and perhaps allows its owner to travel through time. On paper at least, the ‘macguffin’ from a book and therefore the excessive attention it pays to the details of the film’s workings becomes boring.
the nazis are back
Those who complain about the absence of Nazis in The Kingdom of the Crystal Caravel are lucky because many of them appear in the new movie. to be hit, hit or thrown; “There are too many Nazis,” Harrison Ford mutters. into the undulating waters of a river.
Later, we see Jones riding a horse through the tunnels of the New York subway, escaping in a tuk-tuk through the streets of Tangier, and encountering giant moray eels while crossing Greek waters with Antonio Banderas, who spent 2 minutes on screen. it moves a lot and never seems to be in any real danger. The movie also claims that age isn’t an issue; Even in the most spectacular scenes, he doesn’t feel like he’s out of breath or that he’s too old for that, quite the contrary. In any case, the 80-year-old Ford exudes charisma once again in this thing that is undoubtedly the character’s last incarnation. “I need to sit down and get some rest,” he said at a press conference today.
None of the actor’s moments in ‘El dial del destinio’ reach even the minimal levels of emotion that he gave last night’s speech., when the festival surprises him with the honorary Palme d’Or. It seems that the film was originally designed to provide the audience with the most basic and simple stimulus and to prevent the public’s image of their legendary hero from being affected in the slightest; nothing surprising except the final climax, very crazy but surprisingly hot. Of course, seeing the character on screen one last time is enough to provide undeniable satisfaction, but feeling that pleasure is not incompatible with admitting that the only reason this movie exists is to appeal to fans’ nostalgia. Take away the bitter taste they have left in the mouth for 15 years.