I am not attacking Ford, I like him as an actor and I don’t doubt his desire to do good work, but you can’t escape age.
Go watch the last Star Wars movies he was in, he can’t run, they tried their best to cover it up with camera angles and other tricks, but it’s obvious he was a 70+ year old man.
As I said, even without all the work crap
This movie was going to fail.. they destroyed the franchise with Crystal Skull, and Ford’s age really makes him as an action star just not palpable.
It isn’t his age that bothers me but how they’ve made him a failure as a man. And did so to make Fleabag look good in comparison, although a lot of reviews say she is annoying as hell.
Lots of spoilers here:
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny is the Worst Movie of the Year - Reaper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdCEAXpECGg
I agree, there is only so much they can do with a guy who is 80 regardless of what physical shape he is in. It was obvious in The Irishman that the de-aging thing worked pretty badly with De Niro trying to play a young guy beating the hell out of a character in a scene. The easiest thing to so would be to make Indiana close to his own age and go from there.
Crystal Skull was awful, I can’t understand with all the writers out in LA they could not find someone to do justice and come up with a plausible and fun script that would work. There is absolutely no reason they could not have come up with something similar for this film. A bloated $300 Million budget is absurd. They could have made this for a lot less money with a good script and a director that understood the franchise. Indy could have aged just fine and made it work.