Objectively, when you sit back and give it a little thought the only really good Indiana Jones film was the first one Raiders of the Lost Arc. The next four films in the series are really not very good. Only the film making skill of Steven Spielberg and his production team made those films interesting. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny was not directed by Spielberg and frankly the movie is a very joyless film.
The story has Indy jumping around the world in search of some kind of time travel device. The action scenes which are unending are really not that exciting. If you've seen one overlong chase you have kind of seen them all. This movie wants to an exciting summer ride but so many people are shot and stabbed that the brutality in the films kind of takes the fun out of it. As a side note with all this semi graphic violence what does the Walt Disney Company add as a disclaimer? A warning that people are smoking in some scenes.
Four writers were involved in this film and probably a bunch who are uncredited. Although Spielberg didn't direct this film he apparently had a great deal of input into it. John Williams as usual has to do a lot of heavy lifting with his music to make the film exciting. The film was expensive, there is a lot of computer generated imagery crap in it and I'm sure Harrison Ford didn't come cheap.
The film was written by Jez Butterworth, John-Henry Butterworth, David Koepp and the director James Mangold, The running time is an incredible 154 minutes.
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