Harrison Ford is in top form as usual as Indy Cast: Harrison Ford, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Antonio Banderas, John Rhys-Davies, Karen Allen, ...
Harrison Ford is in top form as usual as Indy
Cast: Harrison Ford, Phoebe Waller-Bridge,
Antonio Banderas, John Rhys-Davies, Karen Allen, Toby Jones, Ethann Isidore
& Mads Mikkelson
Rating: 3*
Hats off to Harrison Ford who has been successfully reprising the role of the now cult Indiana Jones for the last 42 years. Ford, now nearly 81, still has the same vigour that he showed in the Raiders of The Lost Ark (1981). The makers here have also de-aged him which looks out of place, yet you cannot write off Ford. He still has the charm that made him the famous Indiana Jones and carries his role with full panache.
In 1944, Jones (Ford) infiltrates a Nazi camp
with the help of his friend Basil Shaw (an okay Toby Jones) but is caught and
tortured but somehow manages to escape with a part of the Archimedes dial
Antikythera. In hot pursuit is Jurgen Voller (Mads Mikkelsen) who also wants
the part of the dial at any cost. A fight ensues on a moving train and Voller
is presumed dead. 25 years later, Jones is living a sad life - firstly teaching
a bored group of youngsters and secondly, his wife Marion (Karen Allen in a
cameo) had left him and his son had died in the Vietnam War Basil’s daughter
Helena (a very fine Phoebe Waller-Brigde) comes to meet Jones on the day of his
retirement and proposes that they both should set out to retrieve the other
half of the dial which Basil dreamt of finding till his death. But Indy doesn’t
know that Helena has some ulterior motive regarding the Archimedes Dial and
also that Voller’s men are following Helena. The action jumps to Tangier and
Morocco and leads them to the Siege of Syracuse in 212 BC.
Antonio Banderas as Renaldo, a friend of Indy.
is totally wasted. What was he doing in the film in the first place and that
too for such an inconsequential role? Ethann Isidore as Teddy, Helena’s
sidekick pickpocket is excellent though his character is hard to digest. John
Rhys-Davies also has a cameo appearance as Indy’s friend Saalah.
Though not in the same league as Spielberg,
director James Mangold executes the film well keeping with the earlier films in
this franchise. The action scenes are definitely a plus, especially the New
York one. The use of horses, bikes, and cars is typically the one we have seen
in all the Indian Jones movies. The climax disappoints.
Despite the film having a runtime of 156
minutes, the film keeps you hooked thanks to Harrison Ford and the action and
thrills.
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