It appears the MacGuffin for this flick is half of a dial built by Archimedes that could send people back in time, and two people want it the most. Separated from Karen Allen’s longtime love Marion Ravenwood and finally retiring from teaching disinterested kids (the days of students pledging their love to him via messages on their eyelids are long gone), he gets thrust back in the adventure game when people come looking for an artifact that was handed off to him by an old archaeologist buddy (Toby Jones). But after a rousing opening set piece where he gets de-aged to go up against marauding Nazis on a speeding train, the story eventually zips to 1969, where Jones is an old, bitter bugger, literally yelling at hippies to turn down the music. In Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, Ford once again pulls out the fedora and whip to play the beloved professor/archaeologist/danger magnet. Let him spend his later years day-drinking with Ally McBeal in peace! The weather probably fucks with his bones. He can’t run from boulders and chase after replicants and shoot aliens in cantinas like he used to. Yes, he’s the man who easily slipped into the roles of such iconic mavericks as Han Solo, Rick Deckard, and Indiana Jones. I wish Hollywood would stop making Harrison Ford go back in his past so he can basically do young-man shit. Phoebe Waller-Bridge plays the grifting sidekick to Harrison Ford's Indiana Jones.
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