There Are Two Kinds of People on the Dial of Destiny Board...

It's not great. Movie has many flaws. It's too long. It's a cacophony of CGI car crashes and shootings. The characters are boring except for Indy and maybe the main villain.

My wife wanted to see it and we went today.
The Good:
Harrison Ford is good.
The chase sequences are good in points.
The opening sequence was fine
The locations were great (until the third act).


The Bad:
Indiana Jones was not needed in the movie. He had no impact on the plot outside the opening scene. He's a side character in this.
The mugging from Phoebe Waller-Bridge as she played Helena. She was unlikeable until the strange flip in her character's behavior at the end.
The odd setup of the badguys. They do this CIA angle which is pretty useless. Then the whole idea of going back to Nazis again was fine in the beginning, but it became really dumb by the third act.
The Indy murder plot. It was so contrived that they completely forgot about it by the end.

Right, because no one who has watched it could possibly dislike it, seeing how it's this untouchable flawless masterpiece and all.

You are truly an idiot.

Ive seen it, I love Disney movies, and still thought this was mediocre at best.

The incels with a hard-on for Kathleen Kennedy are even worse on social media and youtube. You can tell those that are regurgitating what they say from those who've actually seen it. Like the comments about a "female Indy" replacing him.

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What a bold use of a logical fallacy!

The film was a mixed bag for me, but the opening train sequence was the best part, the climax at the Siege of Syracuse with Archimedes, Indy himself, Teddy, Sallah, and the villains were OK because they're Nazis and Indy lives to bash Nazis, but the reasoning for the main villain was stupid, and I liked the ending with Marion back, Indy has the Dial of Destiny as a prize for his museum, and a memento from the siege. What I didn't care for were the chases, both the parade/horse/subway and the one with those silly little vehicles, as well as, above all, the detestable Helena Shaw. I couldn't stand her, and she looks far too posh to be likeable.

What I'll say is that I was enjoying it at first, but then it plodded down into the main plot, and it was just OK, but I noticed that as the action in the past with the Romans and Archimedes and his men reacting to the aircraft from the future happened, I liked that part the most, it really looked like a hectic and interesting battle. I was in conflict with Helena at the end though, because Indy wanted to stay in the past (which he loves) but she was against it as he was dying, and, I hate to admit, he would've changed the past. But when they got back and Indy woke up to everything he wished, I felt happy for him and loved the cameo by Karen Allen, and Teddy was there, and Sallah and his kids, all in New York, and it's the sort of feel-good ending that people go to the movies for, and it sort of makes you forget (mostly forget) the awkwardly plotted stuff before, but I liked the last frame where the hat is hanging on a clothes line only to be yanked off for more adventure.

In all, Dial of Destiny does not get anywhere near the classic trilogy, but it IS neck and neck for Crystal Skull. I'm just trying to figure out if Helena Shaw is more or less annoying than Mutt, Ray Winstone's double-agent or John Hurt's eccentric guy, but what might swing it is: no aliens, or trans-dimensional whatsits.