The Dial of Destiny (2023)
IMDb meta-data is a runtime of 2 hours and 34 minutes (Whew!), rated by 6.6 by 137,000 cinematizens.
Genre: Indy.
DNA: adventure with a body count.
Verdict: Nostalgia.
Tagline: You never know when Doric Greek will come in handy.
It starts with a bang and then ramps up! Among the exotic locales like the Bronx, Mid-Town, the Alps, Tangiers, Casablanca, insular Syracuse, and more. There is some superb acting from the three leads (and briefly from the hotel bellman and the Greek sponge fisherman) nearly lost in the rush.
Most of the action is comic book, but fun anyway.
Mads is a mutant Werner von Braun with a couple of Bama good ole boys licensed for mayhem. I found the plot hard to follow with the man on crutches who seemed to have wandered in from another film. I cringed at the early classroom scene which was all too realistic. (Though wheeling in a television screen was not. It could not be on, but had to be unplugged and plugged in, turned off and turned on, and the tuned in without a rooftop antenna.)
The meeting of the time travellers is superbly played.
It is way too long, but well, it’s Indy and he has earned some tolerance, true, but no, not this much.
Pedant’s corner. There are many liberties with history, despite the considerable effort at verisimilitude. The German 2-cm anti-aircraft cannon was not a Bohors pom-pom gun. In August of 1939 there was no V-rocket program. Then there is all the falderal about the tomb of Archimedes, which does not exist, and probably never did.