According to Rubin, DC's beleaguered superhero blockbuster, The Flash, had an "embarrassing" showing DreamWorks and Universal's Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken, "cratered" and another animation, Elemental, "hasn't lived up to Pixar standards". But he wasn't the only hero to fall short last weekend. The sad fact is that The Dial of Destiny didn't deserve to do any better: the film is a dour, dreary, and largely pointless rehash of Indy's other escapades. New Indiana Jones is 'like fan fiction' Mission: Impossible 7 is ideal escapism Anthony D'Alessandro at Deadline went further. This is, she pointed out, "one of the most expensive movies ever, $295m before marketing", so it is unlikely to make a profit in cinemas. ![]() The film made $130m (£102m) at the global box office on its opening weekend, which may sound impressive, but which is actually "underwhelming", Rebecca Rubin wrote in Variety. ![]() Fifteen years on from Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Harrison Ford's whip-cracking archaeologist is back in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, but, so far, audiences haven't come back with him. ![]() Indiana Jones might be able to unearth the Ark of the Covenant, but can he fill cinemas? Apparently not.
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