The film also took its biggest creative risk by introducing a time travel element that pushed the franchise beyond its traditional archaeological roots. The divisive finale, which catapulted Indy back to the Siege of Syracuse in 214 BC, left many fans and critics questioning if the series had finally strayed too far from its grounded origins.
Disney declares Indiana Jones dead after losing millions
After decades of thrilling adventures, Indiana Jones may have finally met his match — not a villain, but Disney itself. Following the disappointing box office performance of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, Lucasfilm has confirmed that the legendary archaeologist won’t be returning to...www.yahoo.com
Wait.... Indiana Jones was grounded? We talking about the same franchise here? The movie that the biblical Ark of the Covenant melted Nazis into a pile of goo in the first film?
That had a character reach into a person's chest like putting their hand into a bowl of jello and rip out that person's heart while the person continued to live (until being burned alive) in the second film.
That in the third movie returned to biblical elements and had the HOLY GRAIL appear and have kept a templar knight alive for centuries and miraculously healed a gunshot wound.
(and let's not get into the aliens in #4)
