A Curate’s Egg

 I went to see the early showing of Indiana Jones and The Dial Of Destiny today

It was good, in parts. 

It started off in the usual cracking pace with a digitally enhanced Ford looking every bit his 40 year old self fighting the dreaded Nazis on a wartime train. This time Spielberg is not directing, but with James Mangold at the helm he might as well done so for we had nods to every Indy Adventure filmed since the 1970s.

I liked that his female sidekick was Phoebe Waller-Bridge.wisecracking and wide eyed , her action shots looked a bit odd due to the fact she is so tall and slightly ungainly but she almost stole the show from the 80 year old Ford who wasn’t fazed by being filmed in his underpants.

As usual the set pieces, a chase in a ticker tape parade, a horse chase in the subway and a tuktuk battle in the narrow Tangiers streets could have been stolen from a dozen action movies since Raiders of the Lost Ark , and they and the truly ludicrous ending didn’t really surprise anyone.

Goodbye Indy , it was nice knowing you.