Things I liked: - The premise (it's more bonkers than the aliens in the four movie, but it somehow works) - Harrison Ford's acting (he's not actually phoning it in this time!) - Mads Mikkelsen is great at playing the bad guy - The musical homages to previous Indy films (such good memories)
Things I didn't like: - The runtime is way too long (they could have trimmed at least 15 minutes, if not more) - Indy is sidelined for far too long (outside of action scenes, oddly enough), then they had the gall to complain when he actually started doing archeology more than halfway through the movie - The villain's henchmen (there were too many of them, and they were annoying) - A LOT of the CGI is pretty rough (what did the $300 million go toward if it looks that bad?) - The musical homages to previous Indy films (makes me wish I were watching one of the good ones)
At least this one felt more like an Indiana Jones movie than the last one, but between the bloated runtime and sidelining of the titular character, this movie should have become a novel, or stayed as an idea in someone's head.
Review by JonTheMantisBlockedParent2024-02-22T03:33:55Z
Things I liked:
- The premise (it's more bonkers than the aliens in the four movie, but it somehow works)
- Harrison Ford's acting (he's not actually phoning it in this time!)
- Mads Mikkelsen is great at playing the bad guy
- The musical homages to previous Indy films (such good memories)
Things I didn't like:
- The runtime is way too long (they could have trimmed at least 15 minutes, if not more)
- Indy is sidelined for far too long (outside of action scenes, oddly enough), then they had the gall to complain when he actually started doing archeology more than halfway through the movie
- The villain's henchmen (there were too many of them, and they were annoying)
- A LOT of the CGI is pretty rough (what did the $300 million go toward if it looks that bad?)
- The musical homages to previous Indy films (makes me wish I were watching one of the good ones)
At least this one felt more like an Indiana Jones movie than the last one, but between the bloated runtime and sidelining of the titular character, this movie should have become a novel, or stayed as an idea in someone's head.