10 Recent Movies That Wasted AMAZING Concepts

Long before Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny was released, rumours ran rampant that the long-awaited sequel was going to Do the Thing and introduce time travel to the franchise for the very first time.

And indeed, the titular trinket is coveted by the villainous Jürgen Voller (Mads Mikkelsen), who ultimately plans to use it to travel back to 1939, assassinate Adolf Hitler, and lead Germany to victory in World War II.

Much of the film teases the notion of time travel, though it isn't until the third act that it actually, finally happens, with Voller, Indy (Harrison Ford), and their respective associates ending up at the Siege of Syracuse in 212 BC.

What follows is by far the most entertaining sequence in the entire movie and quite arguably the single most bats**t scene from any Indiana Jones film.

Watching the Roman and Syracuse armies start attacking the "dragons" - that is, the planes containing Indy, Voller, and company - which suddenly enter their reality is as imaginative and gleefully bonkers as Indy's final outing ever gets.

But again, it's a tiny sliver of the movie lasting mere minutes, with the script instead far more interested in focusing on how miserable Indy has been since the last movie.

If you're gonna go this hard, why not jump in with both feet and make the film explicitly about time travel, rather than saving the goods for the tail-end?