Reviews

Dial of Destiny may be the worst movie I've ever seen. I'm not joking. It wasn't just a spectacularly bad Indy flick, it was a total mess of a film.

It was embarrassing. It was like watching 2 hours and 34 minutes of elder abuse. The last film was the perfect end to the series. It was uplifting and closed on a high note.

Indy is now reduced to a sad old man, son dead, wife left him, no longer an assistant dean at an elite university with a beautiful, big house in upstate NY but rather a tired, disrespected professor at a NYC college living in an apartment in the city with young, noisy neighbors, riding crowded subway cars to get to work, and bitter defeat engraved upon his countenance.

He played second banana to an obnoxious female lead with no charisma that you don't care about and a string of bland characters, terrible chase sequences which required little more than Harrison Ford sitting along for the ride looking feeble, frightened and out of step.

The villains were lackluster copies from so many other unmemorable films, trigger happy, murderous henchmen just filling up space.

Sallah, now a NYC cabbie feels thrust in for nostalgia sake and because John Rhys-Davies was amenable to a quick buck. From the trailer, I figured his role would be the most embarrassing part but that was actually reserved for Indiana Jones himself.

The opening was terrible, unimaginative, lackluster and despite the high level of action, exhaustively boring. The young CGI Indiana Jones was near Jar Jar Binks level bad.

This Indiana Jones was even sadder than the outcome of Han Solo- the once great reformed smuggler turned general and hero of the rebel alliance, back to being a broken down smuggler thereby reversing all his accomplishments.

Indiana Jones was the last great remnant of the past for Disney to destroy. Critical Drinker's review (on YouTube) is spot on except for his take on the opening scene. He thought it was good and felt like an Indy movie but it was absolutely awful. Mangold's overblown action sequences have no heart, nor do they keep you clinging to the edge of your seat. He also lacks the finesse, talent and charm of Steven Spielberg's cinematic style.

The film didn't even do the transition from the Paramount logo to a mountain in the film like every Indy film has done.

I cannot warn you enough to avoid this train wreck! You have been warned.

To be transparent- I've played D&D for 36 years Which may give me bias. However, I have avoided cinema like the plague because that's largely what it's become; a sickening quagmire of political and ideological driven drivel written by babies with no life experience creating stories that reflect their inexperience and lack of hardships lived.

The filmmakers of Honor Among Thieves seems to have wanted to make a film everyone could enjoy. They delivered. With the exception of a couple small swear words, this is an all ages appropriate, entertaining romp. It's got humor and action and heart.

Chris Pine is a standout among a great cast and fun characters. Hugh Grant is a scene stealer.

As a gamer, it feels like an exciting campaign arc filled with ranger, mayhem and the foolery that players bring to the table.

I highly recommend this and hope for sequels.

I don't mind no budget. I do mind no entertainment.

The screenplay is terrible. The poor actors had no chemistry and that is due to the travesty of a a script. We're meant to feel the tension of the characters' plight but we're thrown into their stories after the battles have taken place. The lion's share of the movie is just characters talking to one another- as the actors wrestle to give their wildly under developed characters' personalities.

The characters bicker and threaten one another and use "military" jargon the screenwriter took from watching war flicks and not from experience. The film tries to capture some heartfelt emotional connections a few times but because we have no investment in the characters nor have we seen what they went through, and the dialogue is so poorly written, it falls flat.

The slim amount of action amounts to the occasional arrow through a window.

There isn't even an establishing shot of the location the characters are in. Other than one sad computer animated giant trudging in the distance, we don't see any enemies.

With ten minutes left and the promise by the group's leader that they would battle their way out of the "barn" location, I figured we were due to see some action, but a fade to white followed by the end title dashed those hopes.

Watch if you want to joke with your friends or if you need some background noise while doing something else. My personal recommendation is to give this one a pass altogether.

This show is an epic journey filled with character you come to love. Many people think they know the secret but they miss the mark. If there is any uncertainty, it's cleared up in the last episode quite frankly. I have watched this show seven times and still catch something new each time. I highly recommend you take the journey and get Lost!