{"id":28741,"date":"2023-06-30T23:27:26","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T22:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=28741"},"modified":"2023-06-30T23:27:26","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T22:27:26","slug":"a-review-of-indiana-jones-and-the-dial-of-destiny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=28741","title":{"rendered":"A review of &#8220;Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\nIn 1981, the film world was presented with a new hero, except that in fact Indiana Jones was a reprise of, and a homage to, the 1940s action men so beloved by then wunder-kids George Lucas and Steven Spielberg. Almost unbelievably, some 42 years later, Indy has donned his leather jacket and fedora and picked up his bullwhip for a fifth offering that does not have the magic of the first three movies but ranks as an improvement on the fourth adventure 15 years ago.\n<p>\nIn the titular role, Harrison Ford &#8211; now in his 80s &#8211; still looks great and, in the opening segment set in 1944, he is de-aged which is a bit weird but reminds us just how good-looking he was. Jumping to 1969, this time his female co-star is the British Phoebe Waller-Bridge who, to me, seems an odd choice. But an ensemble of fine support actors includes Mads Mikkelsen (a Dane playing a Nazi German), Antonio Banderas (a Spaniard playing a Greek deep-sea diver) and Toby Jones (inevitably playing an eccentric Englishman).\n<p>\nThe plot involves an excess of mythical mumbo-jumbo which reminded me of &#8220;The Da Vinci Code&#8221; and the action features plentiful chases in a variety of vehicles and even on a horse. It is all very silly but entertaining enough. I found the opening train sequence too long, but I liked the deep-sea diving segment and the final time-travel sequence is the most original part of a film than rehashes too many old themes.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1981, the film world was presented with a new hero, except that in fact Indiana Jones was a reprise of, and a homage to, the 1940s action men so beloved by then wunder-kids George Lucas and Steven Spielberg. Almost unbelievably, some 42 years later, Indy has donned his leather jacket and fedora and picked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28742,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28741\/revisions\/28742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}