We didn’t love it when it came out, but with Dial of Destiny in cinemas this June, the fourth entry in the adventure series deserves some appreciation
in cinemas this June, the fourth entry in the adventure series deserves some appreciationWorking at the crappy local multiplex as a teenager, one of the only benefits were staff showings, when new films were screened at midnight the day before the general public got to see them. As someone who’d grown up on Indiana Jones, I was pretty excited one May evening in 2008 to go seeLike many of you reading this, I left the screen feeling disappointed. A bit empty.
Moving the action to 1957 with those pesky Ruskies as the villains wasn’t the most popular choice at the time. It’s something the new film looks to have rectified by bringing the Nazis back into the fold. But, seeing Indy in the atomic age is fantastic, as is learning about his exploits in the 20 years since the previous movie. From examining Roswell wreckage to “spying on the reds” and working for the OSS, it all fires the imagination in the way a good Indy film should .
Having Indy find himself in a mock town about to be blown apart by a nuclear test, only to survive inside a lead-lined fridge also caught some flak, with detractors arguing the series should stick to more realistic scenes like having Indy running from strategically-placed boulders, or drinking from the actual Holy Grail.
To hate the nuclear age stuff is to miss the point. No, Indy doesn’t belong in the 1950s and he isn’t meant to. He’s a man out of place, out of time, just as he looks to be ten years later in the new film. He’s a man contending with old age, fighting foreign elements both literally and culturally. The world is changing, but he’s muddling through, just as Indy is meant to.
Yes, the extended Jeep chase through the jungle goes on too long and leans a bit too heavily into humour. Yes, John Hurt, Ray Winstone and Cate Blanchett are all hamming it up. No, we don’t need Shia LaBeouf’s cocky greaser, and we especially don’t need him swinging on vines like Tarzan. Yes, the depiction of native peoples is still problematic. And no, dear god no, we don’t need the final twenty minutes.
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