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The anti-indiana Jones sentiment felt through out the world expressed wonderfully in a heist movie taking inspiration from real life events that marked an era in mexican culture.

The film explores a fictionalized version of the robbers of the National anthropology and history museum in Mexico City. We get a glimpse but only a glimpse of the minds and personalities maybe even motives of the characters, but as the film says, no one can really know what another person is thinking.

Every moment of the film has you at the edge of your seat, rooting for people you know are in the wrong, but you begin to question what's wrong. This journey through history both ancient and modern let's the viewer pondering the questions about it's past and about it's present, is sometimes stealing a good thing? Should things be kept the way they are or should they be preserved? Who is culture for? What is culture for? No better way of showing this clashing of cultures to make us question them than having a movie set in Mexico, not just Mexico, in Ciudad Satelite, for no other city in the world is as conflicted in it's identity as the one that stands as the crowning jewel of Naucalpan.

You can say what ever you want about Kingdom of the crystal skull, you'd probably be right, that movie isn't good and it was driven by George Lucas' alien infatuation, but even then, it was Lucas and Spielberg's project to ruin if they wanted, but Dial of destiny doesn't even have that, at least KotCS was fun (or funny). This one is just bland, a creatively bankrupt blur that you'll forget the day after and remember you watched it after opening the fridge that night saying "oh yeah... guess that happened". There was no need for this movie to exist other than money. And I am tired of this studio making a joke out of George Lucas, it was his mistake selling it, he recognizes it, but please at least have some respect for the man, he has influenced millions of lives and this is how they repay him? Shamefull if I'm honest.

The Lego Ninjago movie is an ok film, nothing special or memorable, but if you reslly like the Lego Ninjago TV show it's a spit in the face, the movie takes SOME concept from the TV show and it never expands upon them, they made Lloyd a boring and bland character in an attempt to make him more like Emmet, which is a deservice to Lloyd, adapting the Garmadon arch with a fully grown Lloyd was a bad idea, and putting him front and center from the beginning of the movie was worse.

The TV show is full of heart and passion, if you can skip the movie and go directly to the better version of this....