Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
The thing is, no sequel is going to recapture the original and Raiders of The Lost Ark is a perfect film. Part of its perfect-ness must be the originality of it back in the day, kind of a laugh as it was made by academically schooled film-makers who were riffing on the cinema shorts of the early years. Then the fourth movie, Kingdom of The Crystal Skull, disappointed many fans and became a by-word for franchises going off the rails. Happily James Mangold’s new and presumably final episode in the saga has quite a bit going for it, with no sudden plot swerves towards aliens at the end. The result is an action film that indeed throws you right in to a wartime chase for a religious relic, which sees Harrison Ford digitally de-aged to look approximately as he did in The Fugitive . He and Basil Shaw ( Toby Jones ) are trying to rescue the relic from the collapsing Nazi regime. Yes, the Nazis are the enemy again—which is always good for Indiana Jones : the only grey areas are around their ...