When the trailer for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny was released a little more than a year ago, I wrote that it gave me a bad feeling:
I get that Harrison Ford is 80 and can’t really do these stunts anymore but this is the franchise that gave us the truck chase, one of the greatest actions sequences ever filmed. I’m not getting that from this clip. I’m getting more of a Transformers vibe…
I still love Raiders and always will but what are the odds they can bring it to that level one more time? Maybe that’s just too much to hope for but I’d really love to be wrong.
I didn’t go to see the film in the theater but I did finally rent in over the Christmas break. I would sum up the experience by saying it was better than I expected but also not great in ways that probably can’t be fixed in the year 2023. If you haven’t seen it, here’s your warning that there are…
