Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny: 22 WTF Moments
Every wild moment from the new Indiana Jones movie.
The day has finally come - Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny is beginning to make its way into cinemas across the globe, marking an end to the legendary Harrison Ford-starring action-adventure franchise over 40 years in the making.
If certainly a mixed bag of a sequel that touts its fair share of highs and lows, Dial of Destiny does get points for its sheer bevy of unexpected, bizarre, and at times shocking creative decisions.
It is, across its over-egged 154-minute runtime, at least a movie that understands the appeal of the uncanny, and that the very best films in the Indiana Jones franchise were never afraid to well and truly let their freak flag fly.
While Dial of Destiny doesn't get close to the flagrant weirdness of say, Temple of Doom - which is secretly the series' best film, by the way - it takes a few bold creative swings, which though sure to divide fans, at least make it clear the movie isn't playing things completely safe as it could have.
For better or worse, then, here's every strange moment in Indiana Jones' final cinematic foray...
22. Digitally De-Aged Indy
The Dial of Destiny kicks off with a sequence set in 1944, where Indy (Harrison Ford) and fellow archaeologist Basil Shaw (Toby Jones) are attempting to retrieve a stolen artefact from the Nazis - the Lance of Longinus, the spear used to pierce Christ during his crucifixion.
The sequence is moderately entertaining if also a bit too long for its own good, but likely to be best remembered for the digital de-aging tech applied to Harrison Ford throughout in order to make him look a quarter-century younger.
On one hand it's a legitimately impressive effect, especially when Indy isn't moving much, but on the other it also proves to be regularly distracting when Indy has to emote or be mobile, because the cutting-edge VFX just can't quite approximate a younger Harrison Ford perfectly enough.
As a result, the sequence is awash in uncanny valley moments where Indy's face just looks a little off, no matter the ton of work that clearly went into it.