Gareth Price

A poignant and at times emotional final adventure with Dr. Jones. The film opens with a typical Indiana Jones prologue set during the war in 1944, showing you the end of a previous adventure featuring a de-aged Harrison Ford as Indy and a de-aged Mads Mikkelson as this films primary Villain Jürgen Voller. Joining Indy is the brilliant Toby Jones as bumbling professor Basil Shaw. Its a brilliant and exciting setpiece showing Indy In his prime and it would fit nicely if you watched this immediately after The Last Crusade. The de-aging effect works well for the most part but there are a few instances when the effect could take you out of the movie. We then cut to 1969 where Indy feels out of place, time has moved on and people are looking forward rather than interested in what he has to say in his teachings about history and events from the past and he's not what you call content in life. His Goddaughter arrives who he hasn't seen for 18 years on the search for a artifact that Indy and her dad Basil had a history with that we see in the opening sequence. Little do they know that the Nazis are looking for this too. I won't go into any more detail as I want to avoid spoilers, From there the adventure begins and we have many inventive set pieces involving vehicles, Horseback, fist fights, underwater diving and hunts through caves with puzzles to figure out and creepy crawlies in true Indiana Jones style. It's an enjoyable ride featuring a top performance by Harrison Ford and I thought Phoebe Waller Bridge was fantastic along with Mads Mikkelson who was one of the best villians in the series. It has its flaws as the pacing suffers with it being a near 2 and half hour film, at times it feels like a little bit of a safer course correction after the much maligned Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull and the effects at times can pull you out of the action. And the third act may divide people but personally I felt it fit in with the endings of Raiders and The Last Crusade. Now I know the movie won't be for everyone and to begin with the reviews were Luke Warm at best, but I think now we're seeing more positive things since it's main release. Unfortunately there seems to be a lot of negativity surrounding this film which has been going on since it was announced really, in part due to people being disappointed in Crystal Skull, the Star Wars Sequels and just what Disney and Lucas Film have been doing lately. Also there was a lot of backlash against Phoebe Waller Bridge's casting and Character, again mainly before anyone had seen it. Obviously some people won't like the character but I think her performance is good. I think some of the negativity that has surrounded it for the past couple of years has created a bias against this movie which is a shame because I think it is a solid, decent and at times emotional farewell to a icon.