ANONYMOUS PROFESSIONAL

Dear producers, it is not too late to pull it from the theaters and try again. I've been watching Indiana Jones since I was little, and this one missed the mark. The beginning 20 or so minutes is a shocking AI face overlay that has no realistic human quality whether it be Young Indie's expressions or the movement of his mouth. In fact, the AI's lips didn't actually move when Indie was speaking. Quite an embarrassing and unacceptable fail for todays technology, and a huge disrespect to cinematography and the franchise, in general- It was this point, already, I just about left the theater. We press onward. Unfortunately, I came to another disappointing revelation less than half way through: this was not an Indiana Jones movie. It was a movie with Indiana Jones in it. The cast, a spectacular group of actors as you normally get with this franchise, out shined Harrison Ford's usual bright spotlight. The portrayal of Indie in this movie, as a sad, depressed, even frail and apprehensive, old man did not resolve at any point during the film, leaving you paralyzed in an indescribable void, simultaneously and helplessly impressed by the action on screen. Void.. yes, and a thirst for that suave, witty, resilient man who could take on any adventure with delight and valor no matter the imposition nor the cynicism he expressed. That should not have been lacking even with Indie's current age. There were many wonderful elements within this movie, yet the creativity still lacked. The ending was a wasted opportunity for some intricate highspeed inception of time travel or permanence of change within the course of history that would leave a better resolve, yet cliffhanger. Instead, the ending was rushed and there was no effort to show the difficult journey home and then, we were forced to watch an unconvincing reconciliation of love with a sour-faced Mary, shown the time-travel device on the bedside table so we'd be like "oh wow, maybe he'll still use it," a strange exchange of lines between the characters that was completely out of touch and out of place: "he's back"- in the house? as himself? the Indie I wanted during the film? and then a cheesy and unnecessary hat grab before the credits. Yuck. Bad wrap up, guys. And I got the feeling like everyone went with the handful of poor script writing, oddly, because they probably felt they couldn't speak up. It just wasn't original, even though it was enjoyable. That enjoyable quality did not outweigh that viewing void. It wasn't what we were looking for here in 2023. And that goes for many movies/content today- Give it a rest until you make something we've never seen before. I want to live on the edge of my seat from beginning to end.