I just saw Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. It's a weird movie to unpack. It's not bad. It feels like The Force Awakens, but without all the amp up hype that had.
I really noticed Spielberg not being involved. James Mangold is a fine director, but he's doesn't have Spielberg's sense of pacing. The film isn't badly paced. It just feels so different from the others, even though it's trying to hit all the beats. In music terms, it feels less like a cover (which Mangold described it as) and more like a remaster of an album you know so intimately that the new mix sounds alien to your ears.
Until the very end, it's pretty careful about doling out the nostalgia porn. Little drops and dribbles, then they dump the bucket in the last scene.
"Young Indy" is weird. Still Uncanny Valley on that shit, but if you force yourself to not think about it, it works.
Third act is batshit insane. I won't give it away, but I'll bet my mortgage the better ending was pitched in the writer's room, and rejected by Disney execs. You'll know what I mean when you see it.
It's fine. Obviously a movie made by committee in a boardroom, yet manages to still be unoffensive. RC says check it out on Disney+ in three weeks.
