‘Exhausting Slog,’ ‘Glaringly Fake’: Critics Shred Disney’s ‘Indiana Jones 5’

The first Indiana Jones movie, Raiders of the Lost Ark, came out in 1981. Back then, Harrison Ford was 38.

Now Ford’s 80 years old, not exactly the age of an action hero. And the fifth installment of the movie is not faring well with critics.

“It’s all pretty goofy and laborious over its 142-minute running time,” Peter Howell of the Toronto Star wrote.

The Rolling Stone review was even more harsh. “[Y]ou either die an intellectual-property hero trapped in amber, or you live long enough to see yourself riding a fake horse against a green-screened subway background when most of your peers have slowed down.”

“[Y]ou’re largely left with what you imagine you’d get if you programmed a 21st century A.I. program to write up nostalgia-bait for the

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