Everything Wrong With Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny in 17 Minutes or Less 

Indy: “I don’t believe in magic.” Also Indy: “I got tortured with VooDoo.”

When Indy is begging to be left in the past to die, I felt he was echoing the voices of everyone who knew we didn't need this movie.

My dad's an aerospace engineer who builds airplanes for a living, so first thing I did after watching the movie with him was ask him how unrealistic the airplane scene was. - Can't hotwire an airplane. Still need to prime the engines and stuff or it won't go - That little single-engine plane would never be able to keep up with the larger plane - Kid with zero flying experience would never be able to do that - Why are you flying low enough to be shot down with harpoons? - And lots of complicated explanations about stalls and recovery and whatnot

I'm surprised there wasn't a sin for how Indy is fine after every punch except the plot relevant one. When he needs to be dragged out of ancient Rome, one sucker punch is enough to KO him long enough for them to drag him onto the plane, fly back through the rift, land wherever it was they departed from, leave from there and fly all the way back to NYC, track down Marion and convince her to come back, and have her leave to come back with groceries. That's like a whole ass day.

One thing the film forgot to mention is that Indy is still wanted for murder when he gets back to his time

You can't hotwire that type of airplane. It has a carburetor and a choke. He effectively hotwired the magneto switch to an on position. He still would have to prime the engine and start it manually with pumps and switches.

I (like most people) have come to agree that Indy for me ended at Last Crusade

Till this day, honestly, the franchise should have ended with The Last Crusade! It was the perfect ending with Indy and his dad riding off into the sunset.

I do agree that one of the main problems with this movie and the last one is the fact that Harrison Ford is quite literally a senior citizen, so they can't really maintain the same fun action and momentum that the original trilogy excelled at.

The biggest sin is the Paramount logo not dissolving to a mountain-like structure. That's like a mainline Star Wars movie without its opening crawl.

No sin for the villain being completely fine when he should have been decapitated on the train sequence??!

Time travel is a trope that's really, really hard to do well without poking more holes in the plot than the finest swiss cheese. Dial of Destiny tried, but it still ended on a paradox. Honestly I'm of the opinion that time travel as a plot device should be avoided unless you really, really know what you're doing (or you've got the brains to pull off a "Dark" and have the audience so confused it doesn't matter any more).

Indy: I don’t believe in magic. The Ark of the Covenant, Sankara stones, and the Holy Grail: Am I a joke to you?

Helena asked Teddy if he could fly the plane because in his introductory scene he’s shown learning the controls from pilots at the auction on a makeshift control rig. Some of the wildest and most forced set up in movie history.

Weirdest part for me was when the kid fastened one of the henchmen with the handcuffs under water. Literslly murder, and the movie is all "oh well that happened" 😅

A couple things that bugged me about this movie: 1. Of course Indy and Marion are split up (again), because nobody in Hollywood knows how to write movies about happily married couples. 2. Just because he's old, Indy is portrayed as a sad, cranky guy who's lost his sense of adventure and bores his students.

I'm an archaeologist. The description of archaeologists at 2:56 could not be more accurate.

This movie actually made me mad as a history buff who always wanted to go back in time and live there i actually thought Indy was going to get to live the dream but no they just knock him out.

Surprised you didn’t mention them casually mentioning Shia LeBeouf’s character and Indy’s son in a throwaway line at all

Why I love the first three so much, is that they never started the movie with the same artifact that they ended with, it was a good set up for who Indy was.

They wrapped this movie up so quickly I was "Really? I had to sit through that long-ass car chase for this ridiculous "well, we came back, movie's over!"

Well for a guy that's 81 at least he looks pretty good.

Indy's goddaughter did not get enough sins.

I'm surprised you didn't sin the fact the main Nazi played by Mads (Hannibal Lecter) got smacked full on in the face by a train signal early on in the movie and fell off the train, somehow magically survives and doesn't have any visible scarring on their face 50 years later 😂

A rare occurrence of an actor playing two roles at once from his previous movies: an archeologist and a fugitive.

6:23 - 6:27 My thoughts exactly. I mean, could you imagine if just as he said that, a flash of light appeared, and someone said, “I’m sorry, but did you say Indiana Jones?”. Sallah says, “Why yes I did. Who’s asking?”, only for the reveal to be the police, and they arrest both Indy and Sallah.

They were so close with this movie. The idea for the artifact and the villain is perfect for the last Indiana Jones movie. Nazi’s really were the only villain faction you could go with for the last Indy movie. The big issue is that Helena is just so unlikable. Maybe if they wrote it in a way where we actually got on board with her before she started betraying Indy it would have worked better. Maybe a more likable actress like Daisy Ridley would have made the character better. I understand not wanting to just repeat Star Wars though. I wish it was Indy, Short Round and Sallah going on a last adventure. Marion could either go too or you could keep the ending relatively the same with their reunion there, as I thought that was a good place to end. A more likable Helena would be a good to include too as it brings a fresh dynamic to the group.

What's even dumber at 2:00 is the fact that the Nazi had a LOADED GUN right there on his hip, but still decided that the top of a moving train was the perfect place for a KNIFE-FIGHT instead.

The fact this movie exists is worth 100 sins on its own.

This movie deserves every bit of criticism it's ever gotten and then some. I bet Harrison Ford was probably thinking "Kill me now" when he made this. Hollywood actors will do anything for an honest paycheck, even if it means being forced to star in a movie they don’t want to star in.

0:57 They missed the best "in" joke ever. They SHOULD have focused on the German soldier just before the scream and his name tag should have read "Wilhelm". It would have killed me with laughter.

Indiana Jones ended with Indy riding off into the sunset after the last crusade for me.

I would think that the amount of continental drift that would have taken place since the battle of Syracuse would have to be pretty darned negligible.

I was waiting in the whole entire Indiana Jones movie for Helena to break the fourth wall😂

Next up: Indiana Jones and the Scooter of Mobility.

I went and saw this in the theater with my wife on date night and when we got done, she could tell I was just kind of sad, which was disappointing for her because she thought it was the cool wife move to go see a movie from my favorite series (The Last Crusade is my all time favorite movie) and all I could say was that I was just let down and am tired of being let down by movies. Leave my favorites alone, please. I’m just tired of it Disney.

14:14 there's a scene where he's 'training' to fly airplanes in the casino, taught by a pilot. Would that give someone the ability to _start_ a plane? Plausibly. Fly it through a time-storm? No chance.

I was shocked at the shorter length of this video, and I guess one of those things that made it shorter was "not" sinning the movie for Shaw laughing right after Indy's friend dies. That was jaw-dropping in the theater. Not the kindnof thing you'd ever think you'd see in an Indiana Jones movie.

What about when Voller was hit by that big ass pipe on the train and ended up not decapitated or even scarred on his face?? If they added facial scars or made Voller’s face disfigured, it’d make him more remarkable and sinister-looking as a villain.

Is it me or this time around CinemaSins has been even too soft in sinning this movie? The fact that this unnecessary Indiana Jones sequel exists, the villain who survives regardless what happens to him in the train sequence and many other things... don't pull your punches, CinemaSins! 😆

The film definitely has its flaws, but HUGE shout out to John Williams for always delivering fantastic film scores! I just graduated with a Masters Degree in Film and Television Scoring, and to say John Williams is an idol is an understatement. The level of orchestration, his use of woodwinds, the strong use of melodies, and the entirety of a 100+ piece orchestra is rarely heard in modern film scores today. Apparently this was Williams's final film score as well. I hope he changes his mind.

"did we really NEED to flashback to younger Indy?" Yes we did, the flashback should have been the whole film.

15:23 Are those giant focusing lenses using sunlight to set ships on fire?? That's actually awesome.

The biggest problem (out of so, so many) is that the Antikythera supposedly *predicts* temporal rifts, not create them. No one since then noticed the phenomenon?

Whilst it was definitely a hell of a stretch, it WAS previously established earlier in the movie that the kid had been learning to fly planes from pilots. I recall that, aside from getting advice, he also had a rudimentary pilots seat simulation rigged up? Again, a total stretch that he'd be able to fly without crashing immediately, it was still at least established as a thing he was working toward in some fashion.

The one that bugs me is that they say Archimedes couldn't know about continental shift, but then they say he made the thing to get help. So, the dial worked as intended. Which is it?

Once I finished the film…I was suddenly thinking I would consider “Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” more of a proper end. I missed the coherency of Spielberg’s lens.

I think more should have been addressed about Voller taking that sign post to the face _Hereditary_ style at the beginning considering he’s played by a Bond villain with a disfigurement. Also, no _Mission: Impossible_ clips in the audio outtakes?! They did fight on top of a train. Incidentally, there _were_ Nazis who tried to kill Hitler as depicted in _Valkyrie_ and, wow! More Tom Cruise references!😟 Correction: Jones didn’t have his heart taken out, it was that one dude where they did that. Though, let’s face it, who wouldn’t have wanted to see brainwashed Indy pull out Willie’s heart before they started dropping her into the fires below?😏

Phoebe Waller-Bridge. (Ding)

Compared to the crystal skull Harrison Ford looks so much more alive and active in this movie.

How about a sin for the fact Indiana Jones only uses his whip twice

I think the biggest disappointment was just all the cg garbage that is all Hollywood is these days. Remember when Ford literally hung onto a truck, or fought around a real airplane?? Like I’m not saying he could do that now, but a stunt double could. I just miss practical effects, and the originals were sooo freaking good because everything was real (because it had to be). CG should be used as a tool to enhance films, but now it’s just being used for everything, and it takes the creativity out of movie making…thanks for reading my rant

Things that seemed illogical to me: 1. Dr. Jürgen Voller, why hasn't he aged a bit over the years? Perhaps the directors should have addressed this in the film. The trick with eternal youth 2. on the train, Dr. Jürgen Voller was hit by that train thing and has no wounds. At first I thought if they didn't show them on his face it might be a limp, but not even that.... 3. when Indiana Jones rides off on a horse at 05:09, Mason takes off on foot. In the movie, Indiana and his pursuers cover a very long distance. But somehow Mason manages to reach them on foot xD. When I saw the movie, I thought that Mason can either teleport or is the Flash and is super fast. But there are so many other things that seemed illogical to me, more than in any other movie.... Except for The Marvels... I'm already looking forward to the video from CinemaSins about The Marvels

I personally felt like the young Indie was the only well done part of the entire movie. The effects I mean.

If they had to use time travel it should have been this: Indy wants the dial because he sees it as an opportunity to change something in his past. A mistake he made. While seeking the dial in the present we flash back to the series of events in the past which led to the mistake. In the flashback we see Indy do something stupid like punch through a window and cut his arm. The scene cuts to the scar on old Indy, Indy smirks and breaks the window with a brick. Show how old Indy learned from the past and grew as a person. Indy finally gets to go back in time after finding the dial. He watches his past self about to make the mistake and starts to intervene. Then he remembers his dad saying "Let it go, son". He smiles. Turns the dial, disappears and the camera cuts to young Indy riding off into adventure. Cue music.

The biggest sin in this movie is that SALLAH DOESN'T GET ENOUGH SCREENTIME

He never even cleared his name which was his whole motivation to go on the adventure and the people who did are all dead in the past

+ 1,000,000 sins for this movie being made in the first place.

Haven’t seen the movie, but when I heard it was released, I pictured Indy scurrying away from a giant rock ball with a walker.

This movie did not look like it cost 300 million dollars to make

But it does make sense at the end, we see Indiana Jones grow into a 93 year old historian

"Listen, lady, you seem fun" - she is not.

"Regarding Henry" 6:12 WAS RIGHT THERE!!!!

Phoebe Waller-Bridge deserves 1000 sins alone.

Can’t wait for Indiana Jones 6! Indiana Jones, and the retirement home mystery!

5:39 "A wizard is never late, nor is he early, he arrives precisely when he means to."

Sinning Cinema Sins: Indy would not have burned his hands on the gold disc. Wax melts at a very low temperature, alcohol burns at a very low temperature (hot enough to melt wax) and heat itself travels upward. There would have been minimal heat transference into the gold disc and even if it had been fully absorbed it had mere seconds to burn before going out. This would not have done more than slightly warm the edges, making up physics to award a sin is worth a sin. The Germans were not ambushing the kid through some psychic preparedness. They were watching their men inspect the stolen boat that they knew Indy and co. had gotten there on, and were actively looking for them to return to it. Making up an elaborate ambush and then sinning it is definitely a sin. "How did these guys get off the boat that was detonated in the middle of nowhere?" We literally saw a scene where they were doing exactly that. Pretending a scene doesn't exist to award a sin is worth a sin. "What the hell makes you think he can just suddenly fly airplanes?" Because the character was introduced practicing how to fly an airplane in a junked-together setup that an actual pilot was giving him instructions on. Ignoring a basic part of the character's introduction to the movie is worth a sin.

I'm from Syracusa and the place where they shot is not Syracusa. It's a mix up of places in Sicily... At least they could have been a bit more accurate in their location

Indy said he doesn’t believe in magic despite using magic to get off that train in Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade.

Wasn't Harrison Ford in another Movie where he ran through the St Patrick's Day Parade? The movie about Provasic?

13:12 Indy did NOT have his heart pulled out of his chest. SIN

I really liked this movie, but killing Antonio Banderas was absolutely criminal

The fact you didn’t sin this more is a sin

Damn! You mentioned Harrison Ford being a fugitive and didn't even mention the namesake! Slipping.

After watching this movie i have come to the conclusion that we were too hard on Kingsom of the Crystal Skulls

I didn't care for this one. But I would have absolutely taken a sin off for Salalah pining for the old days, and for indy mourning his son

Jeremy and cinemasins continue to make videos that are better than the God Damn movies. Happy Holidays. 🎅🌲🙏

Here are all the audio outtake clips at the end: 1 (16:20): Fleabag, series 1, episode 1 (BBC Three, 21st July 2016) 2 (16:35): Pulp Fiction (Miramax, 1994) 3 (16:37): Captain America: The Winter Soldier (Marvel Studios, 2014) 4 (16:44): Archer, "Heart of Archness: Part III" (season 3, episode 3; FX, 29th September 2011) 5 (16:55): Ferris Bueller's Day Off (Paramount Pictures, 1986) 6 (17:05): The Fugitive (Warner Bros., 1993) 7 (17:11): Midnight Cowboy (United Artists, 1969) 8 (17:17): The Bourne Ultimatum (Universal Pictures, 2007) 9 (17:23): Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Lucasfilm, 2015)

3:53 She makes that building jump with high heels on. A jump any parkour pro would be proud of, she did with high heels.

The biggest sin of this movie is how miserable the scene after the train sequence and Old Indy’s and Old Indy himself is.

I went to see this in the theater as a huge Indiana Jones fan. There were a lot of elderly people in the theater and all of them fell asleep towards the end and quite frankly I wish I did.

"Run for president level age" lol 😆

I love whenever a movie doesn't explain something, you call it "yadda yadda"-ing. So funny!

The Indy cgi actually looked good on the frame you paused it at in the beginning.

Omg that centipedes scene gave me chills I've got a big phobia ever since I found one crawling up my sleeve it was only 2.5 Inches but it terrified me.

6:20 - Hard to believe nowadays, but in the olden days (even as late as the early '90s) you could walk up to a ticket counter in an airport, buy a ticket without ID, and fly on a plane. And for international flights, nobody cared about ID until customs on the other side of the flight.

ALSO Voller survives not only falling off a moving train 100 feet in the air but also from getting smacked in the head by a damn water tower, even if he DIDN'T go to Matrix-school-of-dodging-things! Also no scars!

"Spread the blame around" = GENIUS 😂😂😂😂👏👏👏👏

Only 17 min? Should have been double this at least 😂

You missed one BIG sin. Indy talked to Archimedes in modern Greek and not in ancient Greek. Languages evolve, Archimedes wouldn't understand a single word.

The Archer soundbite! That scene was reminding me of it so much

So is Indy still wanted for questioning?

The entire movie is a sin. It’s an abomination. I will never forgive Disney for destroying Indiana Jones.

3:15 Pitch Meetings are TIGHT. 😊

The map animation is supposed to make me believe that tiny yacht was so full of fuel it was able to travel the open ocean from Greece to Sicily

There’s actually a theory about the Spear of Destiny from this movie. In the beginning, they say the spear is fake because it’s made from modern metals. However, the plane the Nazis take back to Syracuse ends up crashing on the beach. So, some think the spear was actually made with metal from the plane. Then, when the Nazis find it during WW2, it’s assumed to be fake because of it’s composition.

11:09 - similar to stealing a vehicle in 'Last Crusade' 11:14 - ok, here I have to agree - when i first saw it I thought the same thing 12:08 but then you would be sinning that for the 1st time there are no creepy crawlers in an Indiana Jones movie

You can use instant coffee in a whip cream to make coffee flavored whip cream.

CIA operating on US soil: Ding! Skeletons still intact after hundreds of years: Ding!

CS at least was entertaining. I love aliens so I was in awe of the final scenes with the ET and the spaceship. I never get bored watching it. Destiny makes me want to cry. It's the story of an old man who has lost his only son to war, who won't have grandchildren, whose wife comes back out of the blue in the end, because well, it needs a happy ending (if you can call it that). Add to that an unlikeable FL, an unlikeable kid, a not so interesting treasure hunt (the dial of destiny, who heard of that before?). CS ended up the franchise perfectly: Indy is happy, he has a promotion at work, he has his health and will to explore, he is getting married to the woman he has always loved, he has a son, and promises of grandchildren. I really didn't want to see Indiana Jones's final years and especially in these circumstances. The director could have chosen to use Short Round instead of an unknown god daughter. Indiana Jones's son could have been working with Short Round, but on the other side of the planet, with his wife and children. Indiana Jones could have sneaked out of the house for a final adventure, against his wife's wishes who would rush after him and be part of a fun familial adventure. But no, it had to be gloom and doom. - Han Solo lost his son to the dark side (and in the end, the son died), Indiana Jones lost his son. - Han Solo's marriage collapsed after the loss of his son, Indiana Jones's marriage collapsed after the loss of his son. - Han Solo got to live a final adventure with a young brunette good at everything she does, played by an english actress, Indiana Jones got to live a final adventure with a young brunette good at everything she does, played by an english actress. I mean, really, Disney ? Really? There weren't anybody in those meetings saying, "Huh, sorry, it looks like too much Han Solo's story and TROS ended up hated and making half of what the first ST movie made, maybe it's not a good idea to copy and paste Han Solo's story onto Indiana Jones?" Apparently, nobody saw the similarities. And Destiny is one of the worst failure at the BO and as a movie in a franchise ever. But don't say that on the Indiana Jones's reddit sub, they are completly in la la land there, about Destiny. Same with the Raven.