Review of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023) by Tdz79 — 05 Jul 2023

I agree with most of the other reviews. Something I don't read however, but bothered me a lot is the message of this movie. For some reason stealing is now glorified in Disney movies. A kid steals money from another kid to buy ice cream. Never is there any consequence. Even when stealing from Indy and being caught, the kid doesn't even want to give back the stolen item until the annoying girl orders him to.

Stealing is not new in movies, but often is done for a bigger cause, like feeding a sibling or something at least honorable. Here it's just about buying ice cream and having shiny items. Also no arc where the character grows and learns from his mistakes. In the end the same kid ends up murdering a guy under water. A kid murdering a guy in a Disney movie, without any remorse or consequence. He didn't even need to murder the guy as a fence was between them both so he was perfectly able to escape. Next, there's the bad guys, who end up killing bystanders throughout this movie for no reason other than to show how bad they are. I don't know why, but it always feels misplaced when people are murdered point blank for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. I don't remember this being a thing in the older movies. The killing always seemed to have a purpose in the story. Here it's needless, the airport guard had no purpose and didn't need to be murdered point blank. Same with the people in the archive at the start. Just pointless murder as if we need to be shown the baddies are really bad.